Indigofera.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 187 
_ with an odd one; leaflets oblong or linear-oblong, subcuneate, obtuse, 
mucronulate, flat, with subrecurved margins, strigose on both sides ; 
racemes on long slender peduncles, loosely many flowered ; pedicels long ; 
calyx albo-villous, its segments setaceo-subulate ; petals canescent ; le- 
gumes long, slender, terete, pendulous, glabrous. DC. Prod. 2, p. 231. 
L.&Z.11592. E.Mey.Comm. p.98. I. candicans, Sieb.! No. 55. C.Wright, 
5455 520. 
Has. Moist places among shrubs, on hill sides round Capetown, common. (Hb. 
Th, Hk., Sd., D., &c.) 
Stem strong and robust below, the diffuse, long branches slender but ligneous. 
Pubescence variable, sometimes scanty, sometimes copious and long, always white, 
The common petiole is either very short, with the five leaflets springing obliquely, 
in a pedate manner from a minute distance below the summit; or rather longer, 
with the two pairs sensibly apart. Leaflets 4-8 lines long, 1-3 lines wide, varying 
from linear to elliptic-oblong, often grey-hoary, drying dark. Peduncles 3-4 inches 
long ; pedicels 2 lines long. Legumes an inch long or rather more, half line in 
diameter, dark brown. 
63. I. coriacea (Ait. Kew. 3. p. 68); shrubby, much branched, dif- 
fuse or erect, the branches and twigs tomentose, becoming nude; leaves 
on very short common petioles, patent, 5—7-foliolate, imperfectly sub- 
digitate or closely 2—3-jugate ; leaflets broadly obovate or obcordate or 
elliptic-oblong, recurvo-mucronate, flat, coriaceous, strigose above, villoso- 
canescent or hirsute beneath ; racemes short, oblong, densely swbcapitate, 
on long or shortish filiform peduncles ; pedicels short or long; calyx 
albo-villous and tomentose, its segments setaceo-subulate ; petals cano- 
tomentose; legumes long, terete, pendulous, glabrous. 
Van. a. cana; diffuse or procumbent ; leaflets 5, broadly obovate or obcordate, 
green above, hoary underneath ; pedicels short. J. coriacea, DC. Prod. 2, p. 231. 
I. mauritanica, E. § Z. 1590, var. a. Sieb. Fl. No. 56. E. Mey. Comm. p. 100. 
tus mauritanicus, Linn. L. fruticosus, Berg. Cap. p. 226. 
_ . Var. B. hirta; erect or subdiffuse ; leaflets 5, broadly obovate, recurved-pointed, \/\.. Can hh 
concolorous, densely hairy at both sides ; pedicels elongate. I. mauritanica, B. erecta, ee, 
E. § Z. Sie. Fl. mixta, 18 and 215. I. alopecuroides, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 100, non DC, “(64 
Van. +. alopecuroides; leaflets 5—7, elliptic-oblong or elli ical-obovate, acute, con- : 
adits, denial BA on. vot as ; aaiale aoc F iigsanciton DC. Prod. 
2, p. 231. E. § Z. 1591. Zey. 2426. 
Van. 3. minor (E. Mey.) ; slender, procumbent ; leaflets 5-7, minute, elliptical or 
obovate, concolourous, hairy on both sides ; pedicels short. 2. Mey. Comm. p. 100. 
I. alopec. 8B. minor, E. & Z./ Zey. 2434. 
Has. Vars. a. and 8. very common round Table Mountain and the Simonsbay 
~~ &e. y. Babylon’s Toorensberg and Klynrivierberg, Caledon, £. § 2. 8. same 
and the Zwarteberg, E. § Z. Gnadendal and Driefontein, Drege/ (Herb. 
ams n "aie gaa nae shrub ; erect, bent or prostrate ; robust or 
v 3 y procum ; 
iitider > hirsute or hh The above varieties glide insensibly into each other. 
Leaflets 2-4 lines long, 14-3 lines wide ; in y. scarcely 1 line long and 4-3 wide. 
Peduncles sometimes not much longer than the leaves ; usually 2-3 times as long, 
or longer, tomentose. Flowers sometimes subcapitate ; in 8. long-pedi the 
florescence always very hoary. Legumes 1-1} inch long, shining brown. 
64. I, sarmentosa (Linn. f. Suppl. 334) ; suffruticose, prostrate, with 
erect branchlets; branches ae poor # strigillose; leaves Og 
sessile, bijugate or trifoliolate ; leaflets elliptical-obovate or oblong, 0>- 
tuse, mucronulate, midribbed, paler beneath, thinly strigwloso-pr 
