180 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) (Indigofera. 
backed, hairy, mucronulate ; stipules minute, subulate ; racemes on 
‘short peduncles, scarcely twice as long as the leaves, few-flowered ; 
rachis capillary, flexuous; calyx-segments subulate ; petals hairy; 
legumes... ? 
Has. Dry, mountain situations round Genadendal, 3000 f., Drege/ (Herb. 
Hk., Bth.) ’ 
ry dwarf, but woody little shrub, 2~4 inches high, densely ramulous and well 
covered with leaves. Petioles 1 line long. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, the margins re- 
markably inflexed or inrolled, and the backs rounded, shortly hispid. Flowers small, 
just projecting beyond the leaves. Legumes not seen. 
40. I. flabellata (Harv); shrubby, erect, densely much branched; 
branches and twigs terete, roughly tomentose or hirsute; leaves on short 
petioles, digitately 5—foliolate; leaflets linear-cuneate, obtuse, mucronu- 
_ late, expanded, strongly midribbed, minutely strigillose on both sides ; 
stipules minute, toothlike ; racemes subsessile, shorter than the leaves, 
loosely few-flowered ; bracts deciduous ; calyx canescent, shortly 5-toothed ; 
petals cano-puberulent ; legumes terete, short, few seeded, canescent. 
1, hispida, Herb. Berol., non E. § Z.! Burch.! 5174, 6915. 
Has. 8. Africa, Niven! Mundt and Maire! Miller and Thom! Near George, 
Dr, Alexander Prior. (Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth.) 
A strong, erect, much branched and ramulous, densely leafy bush, with the habit 
of I. suleata, to which it is nearly allied, but from which it differs in the rameal pu- 
bescence, shape of leaflets, calyx and legume. Petioles 12 lines long. Leaflets cu- 
neate at base, gradually widening upwards, flat or nearly so, 3~5 lines long, 1-1} 
wide near the blunt extremity. Racemes 4-5 flowered ; pedicels 2 lines long. Ca- 
lyx-teeth very short, bluntish. Flowers rosy purple, 2 lines long. Legumes 4-5 
lines long, densely clothed with microscopic, white pubescence. 
41. I. suleata (DC. prod. z. p. 23 1) ; shrubby, erect, densely much 
branched ; branches augularly furrowed, thinly strigillose ; leaves sub- 
sessile, digitately 5-foliolate ; leaflets linear, acute, furrowed above, with 
revolute margins and strong midrib, minutely strigillose, subcanescent 
beneath ; stipules minute, toothlike 3 Tacemes subsessile, shorter than 
the leaves, loosely pluriflowered; bracts minute, persistent; calyx ca- 
nescent, its lobes broadly subulate; petals subglabrous or puberulent ; 
legumes terete, several-seeded, glabrous. HE. &Z.! 1601. EB. Mey.! Comm. 
p- 98. Burch. Cat. 4706, 5126, 5 562. 
Has. Mountain sides near Kromrivier and V . & Z.) Drege! 
Albany, Dr. Atherstone. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., 8) ne 
A densely branched, strong bush, 1-2 feet high ; branches and twigs erect, densely 
. aves either exactly digitate on an obsolete petiole, or obliquely and im- 
; y digitate on a little longer petiole. Leaflets 5-7 lines long, scarcely a line 
wide, with thickened and recurved margins. Flowers pinky-purple, very minutel. 
the + of I. brachystachya, but iol 4 * e le- 
eageicod Ne Ys — sdmed leaves are digitate, not pinnate ; and thi 
5. PINNATH. (Sp- 42-71.) 
a5, t wen gr (E. & Z.! 1600) ; shrubby, erect, much branched; 
branches and twigs tomentose, and set with rigid, gland-tipped bristles; 
leaves subsessile, bijugate ; leaflets close, linear-subeuneate, obtuse, mu- 
cronate, acute at base, with prominent midrib, thé margins minutely re- 
curved, both surfaces thinly cano-sericeous; stipules minute, subulate ; 
