172. LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Indigofera. 
ening as the flowers expand. Bracts ovate-oblong, with along, narrow point. Flow-. 
ers small, 
13. I. complicata (E. & Z. ! 1577); suffruticose, strigilloso-canescent ; 
branches angular ; leaves on long, thackened petioles, trifoliolate ; leaflets 
linear, complicate, mucronulate, shorter than the petiole; stipules fal- 
cato-subulate, recurved ; racemes subspicate, on long peduncles ; bracts 
shorter than the calyx ; calyx canescent, its segments subulate-acumi- 
nate ; petals puberulous; legumes linear, terete, erect, canescent. J. 
platypoda, FE. Mey. Comm. p. 95. 
Has. Gauritz River, Swell., £. ¢ Z./ South Africa, Drege! (Herb. Bth., Sd.) 
Whole plant whitish, covered with very minute, appressed strigille. Petioles 1-13 
inch long, 4-3 line in diameter. Leaflets 5-8 lines long, scarcely t line wide. 
Peduncle 3 inches long ; racemes lax ; flowers small, subsessile, erect. 
14, I. heterophylla (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 597); suffruticose, suberect 
or ascending, strigoso-canescent, densely leafy ; branches ribbed and 
. furrowed ; leaves trifoliolate, leaflets of the lower leaves cuneate-obovate, 
of the upper sublanceolate, all mucronate, expanded, strigoso-canescent ; 
stipules small, subulate, patent ; racemes subspicate, on peduncles longer 
than the leaves, densely many-flowered ; bracts shorter than the calyx ; 
calyx canous, whitish, its segments subulate-acuminate ; petals pubes- 
cent; legumes terete, pendulous, thinly strigillose. I, candicans,E. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 95, non Art. Burch. 3613, 5515, 5684. 
Has. Nieuweveldsberg, Kamiesberg, Kasparskloof, and on hills near Vischbay, 
Drege! Appelskraal, near the Zonder End, Zey./ 2439. Uitenhage, Dr. Alexander 
Prior. Albany, 7. Williamson. Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. Th., Hk., 
Bth., D., Sd.) 
Stem 6-12 inches high, erect or more or less diffuse, scarcely procumbent, thinly 
canescent, with short, sparse, white hairs. Leaves crowded ; the petiole 3-7 lines 
long. Leaflets 4~7 lines long, those of the lower leaves shorter and broader. Ra- 
cemes either very dense or, in weakly grown specimens, laxly flowered. The common 
petiole sometimes extends a short way beyond the insertion of the lateral leaflets, 
and then this species comes very close to J. intermedia, which has a more evidently 
petioled, terminal leaflet. 
15. I. candicans (Ait. Kew. 3. p. 67); suffruticose, procumbent, thinly 
cano-sericeous ; branches compressed-angular ; leaves petiolate, trifolio- 
late ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, prominently ribbed beneath, silky-sub- 
silvery on each side ; stipules small, subulate, recurved ; racemes subspi- 
cate, on long peduncles; bracts shorter than the calyx ; calyx semi-fid, 
the segments lanceolate ; petals puberulous; legumes pendulous, com- 
presso-terete, silky-canescent. DC. Prod. 2, p. 232. E. & Z.! 1575, et 
pte. non E. Mey. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 198. : 
Has. hills round Capetown and : : ! W.H.H., Dr. 
Aleconder Prin (Herb Th, Hk., Bie Beat’ Bees nae ee 
ms decum ascending, 1-2 feet long. Petioles 1-1 i long. 
Leaflets 3-1 inch long. Peduncles oF long. Stipules fete f Bina the 
petiole, and mostly hooked backwards. Flowers pinky-purple. Legumes 1-1} inch 
long. This is scarcely more than a dwarf, and therefore procumbent, variety of J. 
psoralecides, from drier ground. The pubescence is more minute and glossy, the 
leaves and stipules smaller, and the calyx-segments rather broader, &c. 
16. I. psoraleoides (Linn. Syst. 469) ; suffruticose, suberect, thinly 
strigoso-pubescent ; branches angular and furrowed ; leaves on long peti- 
