Indigofera.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 199 
jugate ; leaflets petiolulate, narrow-obovate, obtuse or acute, glabrous 
or thinly pilose beneath, the terminal petioled ; stipules small, ovate 
or falcato-lanceolate, recurved ; racemes on very long peduncles, laxly 
many flowered; bracts lanceolate ; calyces glabrescent, the teeth subu- 
late; petals minutely downy ; legumes terete, straight, pendulous, gla- 
brous. J. calva, H. Mey. Comm. p. 104. 
Has. Winterhoeksberg, near Tulbagh, Z. § Z./ Pappe! (Skurfdeberg, Zeyher ! 
492. (Herb. D., Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
A slender, glabrous and very pale, yellowish-green, almost herbaceous species ; 
“erect” according to E. Meyer, but the specimen from Drege, in Hb. Benth. has the 
same trailing habit of those of Ecklon and Zeyher, from which our description is 
more especially drawn. Common petiole 13-3 inches long, the first pair of leaflets 
at least } inch from the base, the rest 2-3 lines apart. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, ob- 
tuse or acute, sometimes almost lanceolate. Peduncles 6-8 inches long, in fruit 
erect ; pedicels 1-2 lines long. Legumes 1} inch long, subtorulose, dark brown, 
8. ALTERNIFOLLE (Sp. 101-107). 
101. I. exigua (E. Mey. Comm. p. 108, non E. & Z.); “ fruticulose, 
ascending; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 9-16, alternate or irregularly sub- 
opposite, sublinear, obtuse, sparingly strigillose ; fruiting racemes much 
longer than the leaves, on long, incurved peduncles; legumes subterete, 
straight, substrigillose, pendulous.” —Z. Mey. l. ¢. 
Has. Under Bokkeveld, between Waterfall and Grasbergrivier, Drege. 
102. I. endecaphylla (Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 570) ; herbaceous, procum- 
bent or prostrate, thinly sérigillose or subglabrous ; leaves pinnate ; leaf- 
lets 7-11, alternate, obovate-oblong or linear-oblong, expanded, glau- 
cescent, thinly strigillose beneath (sometimes on both sides) ; stipules 
membranous, dimidiate, oblong acuminate ; racemes spicate, on peduncles 
shorter than the leaves, densely many flowered ; calyx setaceo-subulate ; 
petals glabrous; legumes subquadrangular-terete, slightly constricted 
between the seeds, 8-10 seeded, pendulous, thinly strigillose. DC. 
Prod. 2. p. 228. I. anceps, Vahl. DC. 1. c. Zey. ! 488. 
Var. £. angustata; leaflets linear-oblong. 
Has. Crocodile River, Burke ¢ Zeyher! 8. Port Natal, Gueinsius! 195, 283. 
b. Hk., Bth., Sd. ; 
bar native also of etait Africa. Root annual. Stems 6 inches to 2 feet long, 
labrous or strigillose. Pubescence sometimes scanty. | Leaflets 5-10 lines long, 
racy much in breadth, 2-4 lines wide ; sometimes drying pale, sometimes a dark 
glaucous green. Flowers small. Legumes 1-1} inch long. 
1 ternans (DC. Prod. 2. p.229); herbaceous, slender, prostrate, 
albowgoubs ae titties: jenn pinnate; leaflets 7-11, alternate, 
obovate or oblong, mucronulate, green and thinly strigillose or glabrous 
above, albo-strigose beneath ; stipules subulate ; racemes spicate, densely 
many flowered, on longish or short peduncles ; bracts minute 5 calyx 
white, its segments setaceo-subulate ; petals hoary; legumes 6-8 seeded, 
terete, slightly curved or straightish, pendulous, strigose. Burch. Cat. 
2079, 1961, 1963. I. efusaand I. arenaria, EL. Mey.! Comm. p. 107. 4. 
exigqua, E.& Z.11620. I. enneaphylla, £. § Z.! 1621. Zey.! No. 491, 486, 
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