Indigofera. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 201 
107. I argyrea (E. & Z. 1595); suffruticose, prostrate, strigoso- 
canescent ; branches flexuous, ramuli compressed ; leaves pinnate; leaf- 
lets 3-5, alternate, obovate or cuneate, obtuse or mucronulate, albo-serice- 
ous on both sides, paler beneath; stipules subulate; racemes nearly 
sessile, few flowered ; bracts minute ; calyx canescent, its segments subu- 
late; petals glabrous ; legumes 4-6 seeded, terete, subincurved, de- 
flexed, strigilloso-canescent. J. Burchellii, E. Mey. Comm. p. 106. non 
DC. Zey.! 485. I. collina, E. & Z. 1 1596. 
Has. Stony places on mountain sides, near Silo; at Klipplaat River, and Zwarte- 
key, H. § Z. Zwartbulletje and Great and Little Fish River, Drege/ Near Uiten- 
hage, Dr. Alexander Prior! Orange River, Burke § Zeyher! Albany, Mrs. F. W. 
Barber. Zooloo Country, Miss Owen! (Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth., D.)  - 
Root woody. Stems many, prostrate, spreading every way, flexuous, distichously 
much branched. Leaves 3-$ inch long. Leaflets 2-5 lines long, 1-3 wide, pale 
green above, silvery white beneath, open or folded. Racemes usually a sessile, 
rarely minutely pedunculate, 6--8 flowered. Flowers pink. Legumes 3--6 lines long. 
Subgenus II. Amecarpus. Zegume plano-compressed, faleate or cir- 
cinnate, the flat valves netted with veins, submembranous. (Sp. 108-114.) 
108. I. (Amecarpus) patens (E. & Z. ! 1580); shrubby, rigid, divari- 
cately much branched, the twigs thinly strigoso-canescent, at length 
spinescent ; leaves sessile, trifoliolate; leaflets obovate-oblong or sub- 
cuneate, obtuse or mucronate, often complicate, pale and thinly strigil- 
lose beneath; stipules subulate; racemes much longer than the leaves, 
many flowered, at length rigid and spinescent; calyx thinly strigose, 
its segments shortly subulate ; petals pubescent ; legumes compressed, 
falcate, 4-5 seeded, netted with veins, thinly pubescent, often contracted 
between the seeds. J. melolobioides, Benth. gies 
Has. Near Silo, Klipplaat River, 2. ¢ Z.! Brandkraal, Grahamstown, Zeyher ! 
Sand River, Burke & Zeyher ! 499. Dec. (Herb. Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) 
This seems chiefly to differ from J. sessilifolia, by the longer and fuller racemes, 
and the more taper-pointed calyx segments. It may possibly be the same as coy ee 
I. falcata, B. pubescens. Tt is more slender than J. sessilifolia. Leaflets 2-4 lines 
long, 1-2 lines wide, often folded together, pale. Raceme finally 2-2} inches long. 
Flowers small. Legume 14 inch long, 2 lines wide, strongly falcate. 
109. I. (Amecarpus ?) faleata (E. Mey. Comm. p. 93); “ shrubby ; 
branches flexuous, subrecurved; leaves subfasciculate, trifoliolate, on 
very short petioles; leaflets obovate-cuneate, subretuse ; racemes much 
longer than the leaf (and the twigs) patent, straight, at length spinescent ; 
petals pubescent; legumes compressed, linear, subtorulose, falcate, 
shining.” #. Mey. l.c. . 
Van. a. glaberrima ; “whole plant, save the petals, quite glabrous.” £. Mey. 
Var. f. pubescens; “all parts, save the upper surface of the leaflets, strigilloso- 
pubescent.” E£. Mey. ee : 
Has. Dry stony hills, round Platdrift. 8. same place, and near Bitterwater, 
Rhinosterkopje and Klein Bruintjeshoogte, Drege. : 
Of this I have only seen a fragment of var. a. in Hb, Benth., wanting both flow- 
ers and fruit. 
110. I. (Amecarpus) hedranophylla (E. & Z.! 1560); shrubby, the 
branches flexuous, the younger minutely pubescent, at length pay 3 
leaves subsessile; leaflets obovate, emarginate, coriaceous, nearly gla- 
