202 LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) —_—[ Indigofera. 
brous ; racemes abbreviate ; flowers? legumes compressed, falcate, 4-5 
seeded, netted with veins, glabrous, sometimes sinuous between the 
seeds, 
Has. Among shrubs at Korabshoogde, and near Fort Beaufort, Brit. Kaffraria, 
E.§Z.! (Herb. 8d.) 
A very imperfect, almost leafless specimen only exists in Hb. Sond. More per- 
fect specimens are required to establish the species. 
111. I. (Amecarpus) sessilifolia (DC. Prod. 2, p. 23 1); shrubby, 
rigid, divaricately much branched ; twigs canescent, at length spinous ; 
leaves sessile, trifoliolate ; leaflets cuneate-obovate, emarginate, thinly 
silky on one or both sides ; racemes subsessile, few flowered, as long or 
twice as long as the leaves; calyx 5-toothed; petals canescent; legumes 
compressed, faleate, 4-5 seeded, netted with veins, thinly pubescent. 
EL. & Z.1 1559. Zey. 490. 
Has. Mountains round Uitenhage, EF. § Z./ Gamke Riv., Zey./ Dwaka Riv., 
Burke. (Herb. Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) ie 
A very scraggy, intricately branched, robust, spiny and sparsely leafy bush ; the 
the younger parts canescent with short, silky, retail hairs. Sica 2-4 lines 
long, the upper surface, except of the young leaflets, mostly glabrous. Racemes in 
fruit sometimes uncial, in flower much shorter. Flowers small. Legumes 4-8 
lines long, 2 lines wide, strongly falcate. 
112. I. (Amecarpus) circinnata (Benth, in Herb.); shrubby, rigid, 
uery spiny ; branches villoso-canescent, virgate ; spines axi , hori- 
zontal ; leaves sessile, trifoliolate; leaflets (small) oblong-obovate, ob- 
tuse or mucronulate, strigoso-canescent ; stipules setaceous ; racemes 
very short, about two-flowered, the rachis sharply spinous ; calyx seg- 
ments short, acute; petals pubescent ; legumes compressed, circularly 
inflexed, with thick sutures, netted with veins, 3-4 seeded, thinly stri- 
gose. ‘ 
Has. Magalisherg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Bth., D.) 
A small, canescent bush, bristling with patent, axillary spines—(abortive ramuli 
and old, denuded rachides),—Spines fulvous, glabrous, $1 inch long. Leaflets 3-4 
lines long, about 2 lines wide. Flowers small. Legumes curved round spirally in 
a circle, till the apex touches or overlaps the base, pale brown. A very distinct 
species, 
113. I. (Amecarpus) torulosa (E. Mey. Comm. p. 105); suffruticose, 
effuse, thinly strigoso-canescent ; leaves pinnate, 2-jugate, petiolate ; 
leaflets oblong, mucronulate, strigoso-canescent beneath, the terminal 
petioled ; stipules subulate; racemes subspicate, subsessile, in flower 
equalling, in fruit exceeding the leaf ; flowers minute ; calyx-lobes 
setaceo-subulate; petals pubescent ; legumes compressed, subfalcate, 
canescent, 3 seeded: swollen at the seeds. 
Has. Banks of the Basche River, and between Omtata and Omsamwubo, Drege! 
(Herb. Bth., Sd.) 
Stem slender, subdistichously branched, probably prostrate. Common petiole 14 
inch long, the lowest pair of leaflets 4 inch from its base. Leaflets 4-6 lines long, 
14-2 lines wide, pale green and thinly strigulose above, whitish beneath. Racemes 
1-2 inches long, dense. Legumes 4-5 lines long, curved upwards. Nearly allied to 
J. senegalensis, but scarcely the same. 
114. I. (Amecarpus) rhytidocarpa (Benth. in Herb.) ; annual, dif- 
fuse, strigoso-setose ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate, petiolate ; leaflets 
