Indigofera.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 189 
1-2-4 jugate, short petioled ; leaflets lanceolate-oblong or obovate, 
rigid, acute or mucronate, midribbed beneath, strigillose on the under 
or on both surfaces, the terminal subsessile ; stipules setaceo-subulate ; 
racemes on short peduncles, densely few or several flowered, scarcely 
longer than the leaves; calyx segments setaceo-subulate ; petals cano- 
puberulous ; legumes? Avrauss, 439. Zey. 2438. 
Has. Grassy sides of the Winterberg, at Philipstown, #. ¢ Z./ Mts. near Gra- 
hamstown, and Aapjies R., Zeyher/ Port Natal, Gueinzius! Krauss/ Dr. Sutherland! 
(Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth., D.) 
Root thick and woody. Stems many from the crown, 6-8 inches long, simple or 
with one or two branches, rigidly strigillose and sometimes hispid, with more spread- 
ing bristles. Leaves crowded ; the common petiole 6-7 lines long ; the pairs of 
leaflets 14 line apart. Leaflets 4-5 lines long, varying much in breadth, o or 
complicate, dull green, rather rigid. Peduncles 1-1} inch long, somewhat - 
as are also the flower buds. Stipules and calyx segments remarkably attenuate. 
Petals 3 lines long, purple-crimson. Legumes unknown. 
68. I. ovina (Harv.); suffruticose, procumbent or prostrate, thinly 
canescent; branches 4 angled, flexuous ; leaves 4-5 jugate ; leaflets 
linear-oblong, mucronulate, glabrescent above, paler and thinly strigil- 
lose beneath, the terminal sessile; stipules minute, subulate ; racemes 
on short peduncles, laxly few-flowered ; bracts minute; calyx segments 
subulate; petals fulvo-sericeous ; legumes subterete, 6-8 seeded, straight, 
deflexed, thinly strigose. 
Has. Summits of rocky hills in Queenstown and Cradock Districts, Mrs. P. W. 
Barber, No. 61, (Herb. D.) 
A stunted plant, with thick, much branched, depressed woody stems and ascend- 
ing slender branches. Leaves laxly set, t-1} inch long. Leaflets pale green, 5-6 
lines long, 4-1 line wide, expanded. Peduncles rarely as long as the leaves ; flowers 
rosy, on longish pedicels, the vexillum brownish behind. Bracts subpersistent, 3 line 
long. Flowers 3 lines long. Legumes 1-1} inch long, not a line wide. « Greedily 
eaten by sheep and goats "—M.#.B. 
69. I. glaucescens (E. & Z. 1610) ; suffruticose, strigoso-canescent, 
pale, ascending, erect or diffuse ; branches flexuous, angular and ribbed ; 
leaves subdistant, shortly petiolate, reflexed, 3-4 jugate ; leaflets linear- 
oblong or narrow-obovate-cuneate, recurvo-mucronate, strigose on both 
sides, the terminal sessile ; stipules minute, toothlike ; racemes on 
angular peduncles, much longer than the leaves, elongating, many flow- 
ered ; pedicels short; calyx canescent, its segments subulate; petals 
albo-sericeous ; legumes subterete, straight, acute or hook-pointed, 
thinly canescent. J. reflexa, H. Mey. Comm. Drege, p. 100. Zey. 2441, 
2443. ; 
Has. Hills by the Zwartkops River and on the Vanstaadensberg, EF. ¢ Z./ Pappe. 
Koega’s Kopje, Bay, Zeyher / Between Zondag and Koega Rivers, / 
(Herb. Sd., Bth., D.) 
- Rather variable in aspect ; 12-20 inches long, more or less ligneous, and more or — 
less erect or diffuse : but i ble by its pale green foliage, the leaves very patent 
and distant, rigid pubescence, and long, subspicate racemes of canescent flow- _ 
ers. Leaves 1-2 inches apart: the common petiole robust, 4—} inch long. Leaflets — 
varying from 3 to 7 lines long, and from narrow-obovate to lanceolate-linear. Raceme— 
occupying } of the peduncle, which is eventually 6-7 inches long. 
inch long. pire gee es 
70. I. heterotricha (DC. Prod. 2. p. 227) ; suffrutio stem 
