194 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [lndigofera. 
83. I. hirsuta (Linn. Sp. 1062); herbaceous, erect, densely and 
softly hairy ; branches angular ; leaves short-petioled, 4-6—jugate, the 
common petiole gland-stipelled; leaflets elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, 
mucronulate, villous on both sides, the terminal petioled ; stipules 
setaceo-subulate, long; racemes subspicate, on long, hirsute peduncles, 
densely many-flowered ; bracts minute; calyces hirsute, the segments 
subulate-acuminate ; legumes short, turgid, mucronate, deflexed, densely 
hirsute, few-seeded. DC. Prod. 2, p. 228. Burm. Zeyl. t. 14. Lam. Ill. t. 
626. I. astragalina, DC. l. c. 
Has. Mohlamba Range, Natal, 5—6o000f., Dr. Sutherland. (Herb. Hook.) 
Stem one or two feet high ; the whole plant densely clothed with long, soft, pale 
hairs. Leaves 14-2 inches long, closely set. Leaflets 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines wide. 
Flowers small, closely set, subsessile, on peduncles 4-6 inches long. Legumes 
strongly deflexed, imbricating, very hairy with dark or blackish hairs. A common 
plant in tropical Asia and Africa. 
84. I. eriocarpa (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 103) ; shrubby, erect, hoary, 
and hirsute ; leaves 5—6-jugate, the common petiole filiform, gland-sti- 
pelled ; leaflets petiolulate, elliptic-oblong or sublanceolate, mucronate, 
_ thinly canescent, the terminal petiolate ; stipules subulate-acuminate, 
long ; spikes on long, rigid peduncles, densely many-flowered ; bracts 
minute, setaceous; calyces hirsute, the segments long, setaceo-subulate 
and ciliate; petals silky ; legumes crowded, horizontal, short, turgid, 
and densely cinereo-hirsute. 
Var. 8. Williamsoni; more glabrous; branches villoso-pubescent; leaflets ob- 
ovate-oblong, glabrous above, thinly silky-subcanescent beneath ; calyx pubescent, 
the segments subulate-acuminate. 
Has. Hills round Port Natal, Drege, Gueinzius. Coast land near Natal, 1000f., 
Dr. Sutherland, (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
1-3 feet high, suffruticose or quite shrubby, robust and much-branched : the whole 
plant clothed with spreading, whitish, rather rough, short hairs. Leaves densely 
crowded on the more shrubby specimens, patent ; the common petiole 24-3 inches 
long. Leafiets horizontal, variable in width and in the bluntness and acuteness of 
the ends, about d inch long. Spikes nearly twice as long as the leaves, cylindrical, 
hairy. Flowers purple, 3-4 lineslong. Legumes not } inch long, 3-4 seeded. Var. 
B. may possibly be a species, but no perfect specimens of it have yet been seen ; it | 
grows about Port Natal, and is in Herb. T.C.D. and Benth. 
85. I. velutina (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 104); suffruticose, decwmbent, 
softly pubescent ; leaves 6-8—jugate, the common petiole filiform, gland- 
stipelled ; leaflets elliptical, mucronulate, thinly pilose or glabrous. above, 
pubescent or villous beneath, the terminal petioled; stipules long, 
subulate-acuminate ; racemes subspicate, elongating, on long peduncles; 
calyx hirsute, its lobes acuminate ; petals downy ; ovary white-hairy ; 
legumes? Krauss! 373. 
Has. At the mouth of a small stream not far from the Omsamcaba, Drege. Coast 
land near Natal. Dr. Krauss, Gueinzius. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Very like J. eriocarpa, but the stems are procumbent and scarcely suffruticose, 
6-12 — — rising from a woody root. Petioles 2~3 inches long, cad 
of lea es apart. Leaflets exact i 2 e8 
Vide. Poduucle 3k eke igs eee ee ee 
86, I. grata (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 103); shrubby, much-branched, 
“ flexuoso-erect,” branches curved, thinly canescent ; leaves 5-jugate, 
the common petiole filiform, minutely gland-stipelled ; leaflets linear- 
