100 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Indigofera. 
A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 185. J. coluteifolia, Jaub. et Spach, lust. Pl. 
Orient. t. 487-8. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Karagué, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
93. I. macrophylla, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 372. An erect 
very much branched shrub 6-12 ft. high, with firm terete glabrous 
branches. Stipules minute, linear, deciduous. Petioles }—1 in. Leaves 
3—4 in. long; leaflets usually 9, obovate, blunt with a minute mucro, 
reaching 12-18 lines long, 9-10 lines broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 
all distinctly stalked with minute setaceous stipelle. Flowers 20-40 
in moderately dense peduncled conical racemes an inch broad which 
exceed the leaves. Pedicels 1 line long. LBracts minute, setaceous, 
deciduous. Calyx } line, subglabrous, the teeth deltoid as long as the 
tube. Corolla 4-5 lines long, variegated with red and green, glabrous 
externally. Pods deflexed, linear, 12-15 lines long, } in. broad, nearly 
straight, glabrous; terete, 6—8-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Guinea proper, Thonning, Barter! 
Sierra Leone, Afzelius/ 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
94. I. dendroides, Jucy.; DC. Prod. ii. 227. Stem 1-2 ft. high, 
herbaceous, erect, copiously branched, the branches ascending, slender, 
slightly silky. Stipules minute subulate. Leaves of the main stem 
subsessile, 2-3 in. long, leatlets 10-15 pairs, oblanceolate or oblong, 
3-4 lines long, apex rounded mucronate, lateral ones opposite on 
distinct stalks about 2 lines apart, both sides glaucous, slightly silky. 
Flowers in very lax racemes of 8-12 flowers each on slender erecto- 
patent peduncles an inch or more long. Lower pedicels twice as long 
as the calyx, which is thinly silky, under a line deep, the teeth linear, 
reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla deep rose-coloured, three 
or four times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, mucronate, 1-14 in. 
long, 1 line broad, subtetragonous, subglabrous, 10—-12-seeded.—Schum. 
et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 375. Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 181. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Guinea proper, Thonning, Brass! 
Vogel! and others. Sierra Leone, Afzelius/ 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Herbaceous, with the habit of § Dissitifloree, but the flowers more numerous. 
95. I. viscidissima, Baker. A copiously branched erect perennial 
herb with the main stem and all the branches very densely coated with 
stalked brown glands. Stipules setaceous, 1 line, persistent, spreading. 
Petioles 3-4 lines. Leaves 14-3 in.; leaflets 11-19, oblong, 4-6 lines 
long, blunt with a distinct mucro, both sides grey, densely hispid, very 
scabrous, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 12-20 
in moderately dense racemes 14-2 in. long on short erecto-patent 
peduncles. Pedicels $ line. Calyx } in. long, densely viscous, the 
setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla purplish- 
red, very fugacious, equalling the i Pod linear, rharept 40 grey, 
many-seeded, densely clothed with stalked glands, not seen fully mature. 
