Indigofera. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 193 
Olifant’s River, Worcest., and Clanw., 7. § Z./ Barnskloof, H. Hutton! Draken- 
Deed Kloof, Cederberg and the Giftberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., Bth., 
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A tall, strong, leafy shrub ; the younger parts microscopically silky, the older be- 
coming glabrous, and pale, blueish-green, Common petiole 2-4 inches long, the 
‘pairs of leaflets 4-3 inch apart, the terminal at least } inch beyond the last pair. 
Leaflets 4-$ inch long, 4-6 lines wide, thickish, flat, with wholly immersed or obso- 
lete veins. Racemes elongating, the flowers 2-3 lines apart on pedivels 2-3 lines long. 
Calyx remarkably open and subtruncate, repand-toothed. Legumes 14-1} inch long, 
somewhat 4-angled, with very convex valves, spongy and chambered within, 
wrinkled. 
80. I. cylindrica (DC. Prod 2, p. 225); suffruticose, erect ; branches 
angular, hispidulous; leaves laxly 4—5-jugate, the common petiole 
slightly channelled, stipellate ; leaflets obovate, emarginate, glabrescent 
above, paler and minutely strigillose beneath, the terminal petioled ; 
stipules small, subulate; racemes on long peduncles, densely many- 
Jlowered, elongating ; bracts minute, subulate ; calyces puberulous, very 
open, shortly and bluntly 5—-toothed ; petals puberulous ; legumes spread- 
ing, straight, cylindrical, 8-1o seeded, glabrous, the sutures not pro- 
minent. L. Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 103. Burch.! 6954. 
- Has. Banks of the Basche River, Drege/ Port Natal, Gueinzius/ 289. (Herb. 
Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Has. Among shrubs on mountain sides. Near Tulbagh, Heerelogement, and (ain 5 Kosi 
BeyL INO. AT]. . 
Has. Rocky places near Aapjes River and Magalisberg, Burke and Zeyher, Pappe, 
26. (Herb, Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) x 
Procumbent or depressed, much-branched, with copious, soft, pale pubescence. 
Leaves 1} inch long, of several pair, the lowest pair near the base of the | 
petiole. Leaflets 4-5 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, green and nearly glabrous above, 
fulvous and softly hairy beneath. Peduncles 2-3 inches long, the upper half flori- 
ferous, Flowers purple, 3 lines long. Legumes about 8 seeded, } inch long, or 
rather more, with a hard, sharp, black point. “ 
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