200 ‘LEGUMINOS (Harv.) (Indigofera. 
Gamkeriver, Cradock, and Kamos, Zeyher 6 Burke! Queenstown district, and other 
parts of the frontier, Mrs. F. W. Barber, 60, Zooloo Country, Miss Qwen! (Herb. 
Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) 
Root annual ? Stems many from the crown, prostrate, flexuous, slightly branched, 
6-10 inches long, rather rigid. Pubescence variable, more or less canescent. Upper 
surface of the leaflets sometimes quite glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigose, and 
sometimes thinly but equably strigose ; never altogether hoary. Peduncles shorter 
than the leaf, or twice as long. Flowers “pink, shaded with deep crimson, hand- 
some,” H. B. Legumes 5-7 lines long. The characters attributed to J. effusa and 
1. arenaria, E.M. are very variable ; even in Drege’s original specimens. 
104. I. hololeuca (Benth.! in Herb.) ; herbaceous, slender, procum- 
bent, wholly albo-strigose ; stems filiform ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 7-9, 
alternate, cuneate-obovate, mucronulate, densely cano-strigose on both 
sides ; stipules subulate ; racemes spicate, on long peduncles, many 
flowered, elongating ; bracts minute ; calyx white, its segments setacev- 
subulate ; petals hoary ; legumes short, 4~5 seeded, subterete, straight, 
pendulous, canescent. J. alternans, E. Mey. Comm. p. 104, non DC. 
Has. Gariep, near Verleptpram, 300f., Drege! (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
Stems 1-2 feet long, terete, slender, subsimple, or branched near the base, prob- 
ably prostrate, the habit resembling that of a Tribulus. Leaves 1-14 inch long ; 
leaflets 4-5 lines long, 2-3 lines wide. Flowering peduncles 3, fruiting 5 inches 
long ; flowers small, subsessile. Legumes 4-5 lines long. Every part of the plant 
is clothed with dense, white, appressed, short bristles, by which character and the 
more diffuse habit it is known from J/. alternans. 
105. I. daleoides (Benth. in Herb.) ; suffruticose, procumbent, albo- 
hirsute ; branches flexuous, roughly hairy; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 
9-15, elliptic-oblong, open or concave, albo-hirsute on both sides ; sti- 
pules lanceolate ; racemes spicate, cylindrical, dense, hoary, on long 
peduncles ; bracts minute ; calyx hirsute, its lobes setaceo-subulate ; 
petals glabrous, small ; legumes (immature) terete, slightly curved,’ 
deflexed, several seeded, albo-hirsute. Burch.! Cat. 2 540. Zey.! 479. 
Has. Magalisberg, Burke and Zeyher! Pappe, 31. Zooloo Country, Miss Owen? 
(Herb. Hk., Bth., D., Sd. 
Stems robust, 2-3 feet long, spreading widely. Whole plant densely clothed with 
loosely spreading, longer or shorter, white hairs ; the stems, peduncles and petioles 
roughly villoso-hirsute. Leaves 1-1} inch long, patent. Leaflets 4-5 lines long, 
2-3 wide. Peduncles 2-3 times as long as the leaves; the spike 1-14 inch long. 
Calyces very hoary. Unripe legumes an inch long, ¢ line in breadth. 
106. I. auricoma (E. Mey. Comm. p. 107); herbaceous, (annual ?), 
procumbent, wholly albo-strigose ; stem knee-bent, angular ; leaves — 
pinnate ; leaflets 4-7, alternate, oval-oblon , acute at each end, densely 
albo-strigose on both sides, white beneath, yellowish-green above ; sti- 
pules subulate ; racemes subspicate, on short peduncles ; bracts minute ; 
calyx segments setaceo-subulate ; petals pubescent ; legumes subterete, 
straight, canescent, pendulous. 
Has. Stony hills near Verleptpram, Gariep, Drege! (Herb. Hk., Bth., D.) 
Root scarcely fibrous, apparently annual, Stems many from the crown, 6-12 
inches long or more, subsimple, very flexuous. Petioles 1-1} inch long. Leaflets 
6-12 lines long, 3—5 lines wide, the terminal largest, acute or subobtuse and mucro- 
nate. Peduncle shorter than the leaf; raceme longer, many flowered. Legumes 
(unripe) 8-9 lines long, $ line diameter. This has longer leaflets than any of the 
allied species : the leaflets are sometimes golden-greenish, and shiny on the upper 
side ; sometimes white above as below. 
