Indigofera. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 185 
branches ligneous, the twigs half herbaceous ; the whole plant covered with soft, 
white hairs, which are particularly copious on the inflorescence. Leaves 1-14 inch 
long. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, 2-2} lines wide, open or folded. Peduncle 1-1} inch 
to the base of the spike, which is 1-2 inches long. Flowers small and hoary. Le- 
oe unknown. This species is more naturally allied to J. eriocarpa, oxytropis, §c. 
an Sec. 7. 
56. I. elliptica (i. Mey.! Comm. p. 99); “somewhat shrubby, stri- 
gilloso-canescent ; leaves 3-jugate, recurved, on short petioles; leaflets 
elliptical, glabrescent above, sparingly strigillose and pale beneath, the 
terminal minutely petioled ; racemes twice as long as the leaf, flexuous, 
few-flowered ; petals nearly glabrous.” #. Mey. 
Has. 8. Africa, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
57. I. poliotes (E. & Z.! 1609); suffruticose, strigoso-canescent ; 
branches curved, filiform, subsimple; leaves frequently reflexed, sub- 
sessile, 3-4-jugate; leaflets sublanceolate, acute, furrowed above, pro- 
minently midribbed beneath, strigoso-canescent on both surfaces; sti- 
pules minute, subulate; racemes on filiform, angularly flecuous pedun- 
cles scarcely longer than the leaves, laxly 3-4 flowered; calyx-segments 
setaceo-subulate ; petals fulvo- or cano-sericeous ; legumes short, terete, 
canescent. J. adoensis, H. Mey. Comm. p. 99 (ex dvagnosi). I. rupes- 
tris, E. & Z.1 1603, and I. punctata, E. §& 7.1 1604. Burch.! 3492, 5113. 
Has. Among shrubs on hills at Adow, Uit., and on the Winterberg, Z. ¢ Z./ 
Drege. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
A slender, erect or suberect, hoary suffrutex, with long, simple, incurved whitish 
branches, rather densely leafy. Common petiole recurved, }—3 inch long ; leaflets 
3-4 lines long, acute at each end, somewhat keeled, and with a narrow medial fur- 
row above. Peduncles setaceous, angularly zig-zag from flower to flower. Flowers 
small. Legume (imperfectly known to me) canescent, almost tomentulose. Allied 
to Zeyheri, but differing in inflorescence, &c. In Hb. Ecklon a specimen of J. Zeyheri 
is preserved, along with one of J. poliotes, under No. 1609. As far as very imper- 
fect specimens enable me to judge, Z. g Z.’s “J. rupestris” is a form of this species. 
58, I. Zeyheri (Spreng); suffruticose, slender, erect, thinly canes- 
cent ; branches patent, angular; leaves subremote, 3-5-jugate, the 
petiole naked or gland-stipelled ; leaflets linear-subcuneate, complicate, 
mucronulate, thinly appresso-canescent beneath ; stipules small, subu- 
late ; racemes on long, slender peduncles, laxly several flowered ; bracts 
minute, pedicels longer than the calyx; calyx canescent, its lobes 
shortly subulate; petals fulvo-sericeous ; legumes terete, spreading, 
acute, several seeded, thinly canescent. #. d& Z./ 1606 (excl. var, 8.) 
I. cinerascens, EF. & Z.! 1607. I. nana, E. & Z. 1611. I. punctata, Thb.! 
Var. 8. leptophylla; petiole generally gland-stipelled ; leaflets narrow, compli- 
cate ; racemes few-flowered ; legumes glabrescent. Zey. 2431, 2433- I. leptoph; 
E. Mey.! Comm. p. 99. I. verrucosa, E. § Z. 1608. 
Has. About Uitenhage, by the Zwartkops and Adow, £. ¢ Z.! fc. Rhinosterkop, 
Burke § Zeyher! Port Natal, Gueinzius/ (Herb. Th., Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) 
A slender, laxly branched, more or less albescent suffrutex, varying in the breadth 
of its leaflets and the length and fertility of its racemes ; but the varieties are scarcely 
definite, and all grow together. The var. 8. with its pulvinate tufts of brown glands — 
between the leatlets looks distinct ; but some of Drege’s specimens have these glands, 
and others want them. Zeyher’s 2429, from the Zwartkops, is a more glabrous form, 
with laxer and larger foliage, and remarkably long peduncles ; it probably grew in 
a very wet, perhaps shady situation. eee 5 
