Indigofera. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 171 
Eecemnes donges and many-flowered. J, centrota, E. § Z.! ex pte. Zey.! 2416. Burch.! 
195, 4710. 
Var. 6.? simplicifolia ; leaves simple, shortly petioled, elliptical or obovate, ex- 
panded. JI. flecwosa, E. § Z.! 1562. Zey.! 2420. 
Var. e.? dumosa; Jeaves simple, subsessile, linear-oblong, convolute, glabrescent. 
I. dumosa, E. Mey. Comm. p. 93. Zey.! No. 489. 
Has. Mountain and hill-sides, and by river banks among shrubs in Uitenhage, 
George, and Albany in many places, Thunberg / E. § Z./ Drege! Gc. y. Vanstaaden- 
berg. 8. Winterhoeksberg and Eland R., Zeyher / ¢. Near Grahamstown and on the 
Zuureberg, Zeyher! (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) 
A very rigid, much and intricately branched bush, laxly covered with coriaceous, 
veinless leaves: varying slightly in pubescence, and considerably in the proportions 
of the leaflets, which are commonly 4-5 lines long, and 1-24 wide. Vars. 5. and e. 
seem to have constantly simple or unifoliolate leaves, but do not otherwise differ 
from the broader and narrower leaved forms. Var. y. seems to owe its peculiarities 
either to richer soil, or to the effect of surface burning, producing a more luxuriant 
state of the plant. 
10. I. stenophylla (E. & Z.! 1568); shrubby, rigid, erect, much- 
branched, subglabrous ; branches wirgate, angle-ribbed ; leaves on very 
short petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets lanceolate-linear or subspathulate, 
acute, channelled, coriaceous, glabrous ; stipules obsolete or tooth-like ; 
racemes subsessile, scarcely longer than the leaf, few-flowered ; calyx 
canescent, 5-toothed; petals pubescent ; legumes terete, straight, gla- 
brous. J. angustata, E. Mey.! Comm. p.94. I. Zeyheri, var. 8. trifolio- 
ata, E.&Z.! Burch. 3614, 3531. 
Has. Hills about Grahamstown, and at the Fish River, Z. & Z./-Drege! Mr. 
Bunbury! Zey.! 2422, ge. (Herb. Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) 
A densely branched, leafy shrub, with very pale bark and foliage ; the young 
branches long and rodlike, very erect. Petioles sometimes scarcely any, sometimes 
2-3 lines long. Leaflets 5—10 lines long, 4-1 line wide, mostly acute or subacute. 
Legumes 1} inch long, cylindrical or slightly nodose. Much more leafy than J. 
denudata, with longer and narrower leaflets, &c. 
11. I. tenuissima (E. Mey. Comm. p. 94); “annual?; stem and 
branches virgate, very slender ; leaves trifoliolate, shortly petiolate, 
strigilloso-pubescent ; leaflets very narrow-linear, acute ; racemes axil- 
, capillary, on long peduncles; legumes subcompressed, linear, 
straight.” Z. Mey. l. ¢. 
Has. Port Natal, on grassy hills, Drege! 
Of this I have only seen a Sagi in Hb. Sond. The capillary peduncle is 4-5 
inches long, having flowers an inch below the apex. Cal.-teeth very short or obso- 
lete. Flowers minute, the petals fulvo-sericeous. Leaflets 1-14 inch long, not a 
line wide. : 
12, I. venusta (E. & Z.! 1576); herbaceous, slender, minutely stri- 
gillose ; branches terete ; leaves on long petioles, trifoliolate ; leaflets of 
the lower leaves short and obovate, of the medial and upper linear- 
lanceolate or linear, acute ; stipules subulate-attenuate, erect; racemes 
subspicate, on long peduncles; bracts ovato-cuspidate, enwrapping the 
flower-buds, deciduous; calyx-segments setaceo-subulate; petals gla- 
brescent ; legumes (unripe) strigoso-canescent, pendulous. : 
Has. Muddy soil, on hills about Brackfontein, Clanw., £.§ Z./ (Herb. Sd. Bth. D.) 
Stems 12-18 inches high, ascending, filiform. Petioles 14-2 inches long. Leaflets 
shorter or longer, the lower broader and blunter, the upper very narrow, acute at 
each end. Peduncles 4—6 inches long, the upper half floriferous ; the raceme length- 
