Indigofera. ] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 173 
oles, trifoliolate; leaflets lanceolate, acute, ribbed beneath, strigoso- 
pubescent on each side; stipules elongate, subulate, erect ; racemes sub- 
spicate, on long peduncles; bracts longer than the calyx; calyx-segments 
subulate, longer than the tube ; petals pubescent ; legumes terete, sub- 
torulose, pendulous, strigoso-pubescent. DC. Prod. 2, p. 232. LH. § Z. 
1574. EL. Mey. Comm. p. 95. Lam. Lil. t. 626. f. 4. 
Has. Dry ground round Cape m, on the hills and by roadsides, &c. common. 
’ (Herb. Th., D., &e.) 
Stems 2-3 feet high, sparingly branched, suberect. ‘Leaves subdistant, Petioles 
1}~2 inches long ; stipules 6-8 lines long. Leaflets 13-2 inches.long, 3-5 lines wide, 
open or complicate. Pubescence not copious, but rigid, of close-pressed, medi-fixed 
bristles. Peduncles 6-12 inches long or more. Flowers small, dense, purple. Legumes 
14 inch long. 
17. I. triquetra (E. Mey. Comm. p. 95); herbaceous, subsimple, 
nearly glabrous ; stem sharply triquetrous, somewhat fistular, glabrous ; 
leaves distant, on long, triangular petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets narrow- 
linear, acute, glabrous above, minutely strigillose beneath; stipules subu- 
late, erect; racemes spicate on very long, angular peduncles, many- 
flowered; bracts subulate, longer than the calyx, deciduous; calyx 
silky, its lobes lanceolate, longer than the tube; petals puberulous ; 
legumes (young) pendulous, strigilloso-pubescent. 
Has. Piquetberg, 1500-2000f., Drege. Steendaal, Tulbagh, Pappe / (Herb. D.) 
Two feet or more high, slightly branched, weak and scarcely at all lignescent. The 
general aspect is that of J. psoraleoides, from which this is at once known by its very 
sharply 3-angled and subinflated stem and petioles, its nearly glabrous surface and 
different calyx. 
18, I. adscendens (E. & Z.! 1578); subherbaceous, ascending, mi- 
nutely strigillose ; branches angular, curved ; leaves on long petioles, tri- 
foliolate ; leaflets oblong-sublanceolate, much shorter than the petiole, 
thinly strigillose ; stipules very minute, setaceous ; racemes subspicate, 
on peduncles longer than the leaves ; bracts minute ; calyx semi- 5—fid, 
the segments shortly subulate; petals pubescent ; legumes ? 
Has. Karroid hills between Hassaquaskloof and Breederiver, Swell., £. § Z./ 
19. I. leptocarpa (E. & Z.! 1579); suffruticose, slender, thinly stri- 
gillose ; branches flexuous, subangular; leaves on short petioles, trifolio- 
late; leaflets linear, recurved, pointed, complicate, longer than the 
petiole ; stipules minute, toothlike ; racemes laxly few-flowered, on 
short peduncles ; calyx-segments subulate ; legumes tereti-compressed, 
about 4—-seeded, thinly strigillose. 
Has. Mountain sides near Eland’s River, Uit., 7. § Z.! (Herb. Sond.) 
A small, angularly-branched plant, 6-8 inches long. Petioles11—2lineslong. Leaf- 
lets 3-5 lines long, rigid, subglaucous. Peduncles (in fruit only seen) 1-14 inch long. 
Legume brown, 6-7 lines long, not a line wide, Differs from J. complicata, in the 
short petioles, stipules, racemes, legumes, &c. The foliage is not dissimilar ; the 
pubescence much more scanty. 
20. I. gracilis (Spreng. Cur, Bot.) ; suffruticose, decumbent, slender; 
