Indigofera LEGUMIXOS^E 1 7 



3. I. subulata Pin,-. Encyc. Snj>j>I. Hi. 100 (1813); leaflets 

 in 2-3(-l) pairs, elliptical, apex rounded or obtuse, strigose OIL 

 both sides; racemes longer than the leaf with long peduncle; 

 pods straight or only slightly curved, with 10-10 seeds. DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 223; Jlnl:. in Jfunk. f. Fl. Br. Lnl. //'. '.if, ; (!,:.<,!,. Inc. 

 <//. I. mucronata /<///. //_'/. ex DC. font. </'/. 227 ; N<-f. Ju,,i. i. 2 10. 



Brougltto)i\ common, Port Royal and St. Andrews Mia., Macfadyen \ 

 Yallabs River, Punlir ! March ; Agualta Vale, Mctcalfe ! Kingston, 

 ;I!M> Clutcl Gordon Town, Ball ! Guava Ridge, 2000 ft., Eggers\ Hope, 

 Harris ! Golden Spring, 800 ft., Thompson ! Constant Spring ; Port Morant ; 

 Hitchcock ! Porus, Lloyd \ Fl. Jam. 6852, 8066. Tropical and subtropical 



regions. 



Shrubby, stem and branches white-strigose. Leaflets 2-4 cm. 1., 

 1-1-8 cm. br. ; stipules long, filiform, acuminate, about 6 mm. 1. 1!< ir^mes 

 1-1-5 dm. 1., sometimes to nearly 3 dm. 1. Calyx 5-partite, 2 -5-3 mm. 1. ; 

 segments lanceolate, acuminate, subequal. Corolla : standard roundish- 

 rhomboidal, vermilion-coloured on the inside, pale outside with a green 

 nerve, 4*5 mm. 1., 4 mm. br. ; wings oblong, apex broader, rounded, 

 ciliolate at apex, as long as the standard ; keel as long as the standard, 

 white, upper edge tinged with red, and ciliate. Pod linear-cylindrical, not 

 torulose, thickened especially along the dorsal margin, reflexed, strigillose, 

 2 -5-4 -5 cm. 1. Seeds 2 mm. 1., linear, 4-angled, with a depression at scar 

 of attachment. 



4. I. lespedeziodes H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vi. 407 (1824); 

 leaflets variable in size and number, 1 or 2, or with simple leaves 

 only below and 1 to 4 pairs above, oblong and slightly tapering 

 to the base, apex obtuse, mucronulate or emarginate-retuse, 

 strigose on both sides ; racemes about as long as the leaf or 

 longer, with several flowers; pod straight, with about 10 seeds. 

 -DC. torn. ,-it. 226; Benth. in FL Bras, xv.pt. 1, 39 /. 5. 



Liguanea Ridge, St. Andrew, 1000 ft.; on land recently burnt ov'-r 

 Lititz Savanna, 300-900 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 11,745, 12,204. Tropical. 

 - America. 



Shrubby, 2-3 ft. high ; young branches slightly angled, slightly strigillose 

 or glabrate. Leaflets, 3-1 cm. 1., 7-5 (-2) mm. br. ; stipules lanceolate- 

 setaceous, about 2-5 mm. 1. Calyx 5-fid, tube about 1 mm. 1. ; segments 

 triangular-acuminate, 1'3 mm. 1. Corolla reddish, standard roundish, 

 reflexed, about 5 mm. 1. ; wings obliquely oblanceolate, a little shorter 

 than the keel; keel about as long as the standard, with spur?-, about the 

 middle. Pod linear-cylindrical, not torulose, slightly thickened alon- each 

 margin, reflexed, strigillose or glabrescent, 2 -5-3 cm. 1. 



Various species of Indigo f era have been successfully used as cover crops, 

 protecting the soil from wash on sloping ground. 



Macfadyen states (Flor. Jam. i. 244) that I. anjcntca L. ''was formerly 

 a common weed in the Botanic Garden at Bath." We have not seen 

 specimens from Jamaica. 



4. TEPHROSIA Per*. 



Shrubby herbs or shrubs. Leaflets nunu-rous, with parallel 

 oblique nerves, underneath often silky. Flowers in clusters of 

 2-6 arranged in racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, or in 

 iv. c 



