Indigofera.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 169 
Has. De la Goa Bay, Forbes.! (Herb. Hk., D.) 
A slender, laxly branched, erect suffrutex, 2-3 feet high ; branches long and sim- 
ple, incurved. Petioles 2-3 inches long, twice as thick as hog’s bristles, incurved or 
recurved, bi-stipellate at the summit, frequently leafless. Leaflet glaucescent, }-} 
inch long, the smaller obovate, the larger oblong, all very thinly and appressedly 
puberulous. Racemes not an inch long, 3-8 flowered. Legumes Io lines long, }- 
line in diameter, brown. : 
- 2, SIMPLICIFOLIZ. (Sp. 3-5.) 
3. I. obcordata (E. & Z. ! 1561) ; shrubby; branches straight, rigid, 
terete, canescent ; leaves scattered, simple, subsessile, obcordate, ex- 
panded, strigoso-canescent on both sides; stipules obsolete ; “spikes” 
(fide #. & Z.) “pedunculate, few-flowered, scarcely longer than the 
leaves;” legumes unknown. 
Has. Karroo Hills at the Gauritz River, Swell., Z. § Z./ (Herb. Sond.) 
A single specimen, without flower or fruit, exists in Hb. Ecklon, now Dr. Son- 
der’s. It seems to be a rigid, strong growing, divaricate, and sparsely leafy shrub, 
thinly canescent in all parts, and ashen-grey. The branches 8-12 inches long, are 
very rigid and straight. Leaves } inch apart, 4-5 lines long, 3 lines wide, retuse or 
deeply emarginate, many of them exactly heartshaped, the midrib obvious on the 
upper, and prominent on the under surface. No appearance of inflorescence, save 
very young flower-buds. 
4, I. nudicaulis (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 92); shrubby, canescent; branches 
flexuous, striate; leaves few, distant, simple, subsessile, linear-cuneate, 
convolute, recurved at point, deciduous, appressedly canescent ; ra- 
cemes shortly pedunculate, axillary, laxly many-flowered, elongating ; 
flowers subsessile; vexillum silky ; calyx oblique, with short, blunt. 
lobes ; legumes subterete, straight, thinly canescent. 
2 Re ear Verleptpram, at the Gariep, on stgny hills, 500f., Drege./ (Herb. Hk., 
Whole plant pale yellowish or cream-coloured, micros ly puberulous. Stems 
much-branched, 1-14 foot high, the branches angularly bent. Leaves an inch apart, 
3 inch long, 1-1} line wide, the sides infolded ; apex blint. Racemes 13-2 inches 
long, subspicate. Calyx 1 line long, canescent. Vexillum 2-3 lines long. Ovary 
densely canescent ; legume nearly uncial, spreading. . 
_ _ §, I ovata (Thunb. ! Fi. Cap. p. 596); suffruticose, diffuse ; branches 
‘filiform, angular, nearly glabrous ; leaves scattered, simple, subsessile, 
ovate-oblong or elliptical, fat, coriaceous, veinless, mucronate ; stipules 
subulate ; racemes on long, glabrous peduncles, pluriflowered ; flowers 
pedicellate, bracts deciduous ; petals thinly silky ; calyx pilose, its seg- 
ments subulate, acuminate ; legume terete, straight, glabrous, many- 
seeded. DC. Prod. 2, p. 222. Burch. Cat. 5928, 7876. ; 
 _Has. 8, Africa, Thurberg/ Klyn Howh » 2414. : 
"Dr. Alevander gh ey ek. Th. Hk., gen taal a pee Son 
A slender, diffuse, or somewhat trailing, peric ee erme ub, 1-2 feet long, 
laxly branched. Leaves half inch apart, on petioles scarcely 1 line long, 5-8 lines 
long, 3-5 lines wide, thickish, minutely and appressedly puberulous on one or both 
sides. Peduncles 2-3 inches long, supporting a short raceme. Legumes uncial, 
acute at each end, the seminal suture thickened. Thunberg’s specimen, in Hb. Upsal, 
has rather larger leaves than Zeyher’s, but in other respects it agrees. It is certainly 
not ‘*‘ villous,” as described. 
3. TRIFOLIOLATZ. (Sp. 6-32.) ig 
6. I. spinescens (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 93); shrubby, rigid, divaricately 
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