Indigofera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 101 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of the province of Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
96. I. sutherlandioides, Welw. mss. An undershrub, with erect, 
woody stems with several rigidly erecto-patent branches, densely 
clothed with short brownish-grey pubescence. Stipules 2-3 lines, seta- 
ceous, persistent. Petioles 3—4 lines. Leaves 2-24 in. long; leaf- 
lets 13-19, subcoriaceous, 5-6 lines long, grey and finely silky above, 
densely white-silky beneath with the midrib brownish, the side ones 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, usually opposite, the end one 
stalked, oblanceolate, blunt, both with a conspicuous mucro. Flowers 
in moderately dense short-stalked racemes 15-18 lines long, an inch 
broad. Pedicels 4—3 line, densely grey-silky. Calyx } line, densely 
grey-silky, teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube. Corolla 4-5 lines 
long, dark purple, the standard glabrous externally. Pods straight, 
dark purple, 18-21 lines long, 2 lines broad, glabrous, 12—15-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
97. I. fulgens, Baker. A copiously branched shrub, with firm, 
flexuose branches, clothed upwards with short spreading brown pubes- 
cence. Stipules half an inch long, setaceous, ciliated. Petioles }—} in. 
long, firm, erecto-patent. Leaves 5—6 in. long, with about 10 pairs of 
stalked oblong or slightly obovate leaflets, an inch or rather more long, 
not half as broad, distinctly mucronate, green, not at all glaucous, both 
sides slightly pubescent. Racemes lax, short-stalked, finally nearly as 
long as the leaves. Pedicel equalling the calyx, which is a line deep, 
thinly silky, campanulate, the teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down. 
Corolla bright red, 2 in. long, the standard spathulate, 2 lines broad. 
Pod linear-mucronate, 14 in. long, } in. thick, glabrous, slightly 
torulose, 10-12-seeded. 
Mozamb. Distr. Banks of the Rovuma, Dr. Kirk! : ; : 
This has much the largest and most showy flowers of all the Tropical African species. 
98. I. Hochstetteri, Buler. Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, 
copiously and diffusely branched from the base, the branchlets slender, 
angular, moderately silvery. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 
4~$ in. long. Tnalles in 1-8 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, $1 in. long, the 
ateral ones distant, slightly stalked, the apex rounded and mucronate, 
both sides glaucous, and permanently thinly coated with strong ad- 
pressed silvery hairs. Flowers in close oblong racemes of about 12 
each, not above 4 in. long till the fruit is produced, on peduncles 4 in. 
or less long. Calyx silvery, } in. deep, cut down nearly to the base, 
the teeth setaceous, the lowest the longest. Corolla pink, about equal- 
ling the calyx. Pods deflexed and then again slightly recurved, linear- 
mucronate, $-3in. long, } in. broad, 6—8-seeded.—ZJ. ornithopodioides, 
Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Arab. No. 769. Jaub. et Spach, Ilust. 
1.-Or, t. 480, non Schum. et Thonn. nec Cham. et Schlecht. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Petherick! Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 
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Extends through Arabia to Scinde. 
