182 LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) (Indigofera. 
erect ; leaflets linear-cuneate, mucronate, glabrous above, strigillose be- 
neath, with incurved margins, the terminal subsessile; stipules obsolete ; 
racemes shorter than the leaf, 3-6 flowered; calyx-segments subulate ; pe- 
tals fulvo-sericeous ; legumes few-seeded, subterete, acute, deflexed, 
thinly strigillose. 
Has. Between Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, Drege! (Herb. Benth.) 
Small twigs only seen by me. Common petiole uncial, the pairs of leaflets 2 lines 
apart. Leaflets 4-5 lines long, more or less concave. Racemes 3 inch long ; pedi- 
cels filiform, at length 3-4 lines long. Flowers 2 lines long, tawny externally. Le- 
gumes 4 inch long. The very erect leaves, much longer petiole, and more distant 
pairs of leaflets, the terminal sometimes petioled, and the short legumes distinguish 
this from JZ. stricta. 
46. I. vestita (Harv.) ; fruticose, erect, minutely strigillose; stem 
subsimple, virgate, very straight, densely leafy; leaves imbricate, 2-3 
Jugate ; leaflets Janceolate-linear, with strongly revolute margins, mucro- 
nate, glabrescent; the terminal sub-petioled; racemes few-flowered, 
shorter than the leaves ; calyx 5-toothed ; petals fulvo-sericeous; legumes 
terete, straight, deflexed, strigilloso-puberulent. 
Has. Coast land of Natal to 1000 f. Dr. Sutherland! (Herb. Hook.) 
Stem 2-3 feet high, robust, quite simple, closely imbricated with leaves, amon; 
which the small inflorescences are hid; the whole plant when in flower conve 
into a leafy thyrsus, Leaflets very narrow, and by revolution of margins almost fili- 
form, 5-7 lines long, acute at each end and mucronate, nearly glabrous, with a very 
few small strigee. Flowers small, brownish externally. Legumes an inch long, 
black, with very minute, appressed pubescence. This may be Meyer's J. hirta, and 
is certainly closely allied to it ; but seems to differ in the much narrower and more 
glabrous leaflets, and different pubescence ; that of our plant could scarcely be 
called “‘ strigilloso-hirta, subcanescens,” nor the legumes ** hirtis.” 
47, I. hirta (E. Mey. Comm. p. 101); “fruticose, strigilloso-hirsute, 
subcanescent ; stem erect, subsimple; leaves 2~3 jugate, short petioled, 
leaflets lanceolate, subacuminate-mucronate, the terminal subsessile ; 
‘Tacemes shorter than the leaves; petals strigillose and hairy; legumes 
subterete, straightish, hairy, spreading,” 2. Mey. 1. ¢. 
Has. Grassy places between Omtata and Omsamwubo, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
48. I. Dregeana (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 100); fruticose, erect, villoso- 
canescent ; stem subsimple, vurgate, very straight ; leaves closely set, short- 
petioled, 5-7 jugate, suberect; leaflets linear-oblong, mucronate, flat, 
tomentose on both sides, the terminal subsessile; racemes on long, 
terete peduncles, densely many flowered, elongate, patent or pendulous ; 
calyx shortly 5-fid; petals fulvo-sericeous; legumes terete, straight, 
sharp pointed, tomentulose. 
Has. Between Omcomas and Port N: f. Drege! Coast land of Natal to 
1000 f. Dr, Sorte (Herb. Bus, HES ee Pees 
Stem 2-3 feet high, erect, quite simple, rigid and rodlike, closely imbricated with 
leaves. Pubescence copilot, whitish, soft, short, patent. Tanta 1-1} inch long, 
erect. Leaflets 4-5 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, obtuse, somewhat cuneate at base. 
Peduncles very patent, 2-3 inches to the base of the dense raceme, which is 4-5 
— it ; cels var. y than the calyx. Flowers rather small (withered 
only seen). 13-14 inch long, quite straight. A remarkable species, 
quite unlike any other S. African. gprs ead 
49. I. tristis E. Mey.! Comm, p. 101); shrubby, erect, slender ; stem” 
