176 LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) [ Indigofera. 
terete, pendulous, hispid, several seeded. DC. Prod. 2, p,232. LE. & Z. 
1584. H. Mey. Comm.p. 96. Burch. Cat. 5108. 23 
_ Has. Common on the hills round Capetown, at Kamps Bay and Rondebosch, &c. 
Dr. Pappe, W.H.H., E.§ Z., &e. Klipplatt River and Zwartkey, Drege! (Herb. 
-Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Tap-root subsimple, slightly fibrous. Stems many from the crown, 1-2 feet long, 
spreading over the soil in all directions, much or little branched, roughly hairy. Pe- 
tioles 2-3 lines long. Leaflets 3-7 lines long, 2-4 lines wide, palish green, obtuse 
or subacute. Peduncles 3-6-8 inches long, ending in a short raceme of several pur- 
ple, dark-tipped, nearly glabrous flowers. Corolla 23 lines long. Legume 1-14 inch 
long, densely but shortly hispid. Varying in the size of leaf, length of peduncle, 
&c., but generally known by its pubescence and stipules. Burchell’s 5108 has nar- 
rower stipules than usual. 
27. I. mollis (E. & Z.! 1586) ; herbaceous, procumbent, densely and 
softly hairy; stems filiform ; leaves on longish petioles, trifoliolate ; 
leaflets roundish-obovate, very obtuse, sub-glabrous on the upper, softly 
villous and paler on the under side, thin, expanded ; stipules amplewicaul. 
roundish-ovate, obtuse; racemes on long peduncles, many-flowered ; 
bracts minute; calyx-lobes lanceolate; petals subglabrous ; legumes 
ee terete, glabrous, several seeded. J. mollis, H. Mey.! Comm. 
p. 96. : 
Has. Grassy places on the Kat River Berg, above the woods, FZ. ¢ Z./ S. Africa, 
Drege! (Herb.Sd., Bth ) 
Stems trailing, subsimple, several inches long. The whole plant (save the upper 
surfaces of the leaflets, the petals and the legumes) densely clothed with long, soft, 
patent, very slender, white hairs. Petioles 3? inch long. Leaflets 4~5 lines long, 
4 lines wide, pale green. Stipules 14 line long and broad. Flowers 14 line long, 
pink, Legumes 1} inch long, quite glabrous. : 
28. I. stipularis (Linn. ; fide E. Mey.! Comm. p. 96); subherbaceous, 
decumbent, hairy, subcanescent; leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets 
obovate-cuneate, mucronate, expanded, hispid on both surfaces ; stipules 
broadly cordate-ovate, acuminate, equalling or exceeding the petiole; ra- 
cemes on long peduncles; bracts minute ; calyx segments subulate; 
petals glabrous; legumes terete, pendulous, glabrous, several seeded. 
DC. Prod. 2. p. 232, non FE. & Z. Maund. Bot. 4,t. 191. I. alpina, E.&Z.! 
1581. also Zey. Legum. 111. 11, and 112. 11. 
Has. Among rocks at river banks between Klipplaat Riv. and Zwartekey, and 
on the Katberg, 4500-5000 f. Drege! E.§ Z.! Frontier and Kaffirland in various 
places, Mrs. F. W. Barber, No. 51. (Herb. Sd , Bth., D.) 
Stems several from the crown, subsimple, roughly hispid, subterete. Petioles $—-} 
inch long. Leaflets 4-1 inch long, 4-6 lines wide, more or less tapering to a cuneate 
base, blunt or subacute, with a small mucro, pale green. Stipules leaflike, very 
broad, acute or acuminate. Peduncles 6-10 inches long, 4 occupied by a slender, 
lengthening raceme. Flowers pink or crimson, “ petals producing an indigo blue” 
(Mrs. Barber). Easily known se I. incana by its broader and more cordate sti- 
pules and glabrous legumes. __ 
29. I. dimidiata (Vogel.); herbaceous, decumbent, subglabrous (very 
sparsely strigillose); leaves on Jong petioles, trifoliolate ; leaflets ovato- 
lanceolate, or lanceolate, mucronulate, expanded, pale, glabrous above, 
thinly strigillose beneath; stipules broad, semi-sagittate, acuminate, 
shorter than the petiole ; racemes on long peduncles, elongating, many 
flowered; bracts and calyx-segments subulate ; legumes terete, pendu- 
