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long" with a sickle-shaped keel and cylindric pods, i^ by ^ — | 

 in. ; Basa Cove, A/iscI/\ ; Cape Palmas, Vogi'l, i6i ! 



Indigofera hirsuta, L. : a villous annual with piimate 5 — 7-foliolate 

 greyish green leaves opposite blunt leaflets, slender very villous 

 dense racemes of subsessile red papilionaceous flowers, ^ in. 

 long, and hairy pods, I — J in. by h in. ; Monrovia, ]Vhyte\ 



I. endecaphylla, /acq. : a decumbent or suberect adpressedly hairy- 

 weed with pinnate 7 — 9-foliolate leaves, blunt leaflets, dense 

 axillary racemes of red papilionaceous flowers, ^ in. long, and 

 pointed cylindric pods, i— f in. by yV in. ; Grand Basa, Voge/, 

 106 ! ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 4 ! 



I. sufFruticosa, Mill. (I. anil of most authors) : a much-branched 

 adpressedly hairy shrub with pinnate 13 — i6-foliolate leaves, 

 blunt or subacute mucronate leaflets, very slender axillary racemes 

 of yellowish papilionaceous flowers, ^ in. long, and reflexed 

 sickle-shaped pods, h — f in. long; Monrovia, ]Vh)'te\—On& of 

 the indigo-producing species of Indigofera, frequently cultivated. 



*Milletia dinklagei, Harms.: a shrub with pinnate about 9-foliolate 

 leaves, thin coriaceous leaflets, 2 — 3 in. long, and silky below, 

 ample velvety panicles of white papilionaceous flowers, under 

 \ in. long, and flat velvety pods ; in the bush of the littoral, 

 Fishtown, Dinklage, 1672, 1764! 



M. thonningii. Baker : a glabrous shrub or small tree with pinnate 

 leaves, 11 — 13 papery acuminate leaflets, i — 3 in. by f — ih in,, 

 peduncled racemes of purplish papilionaceous flowers, f in. 

 long, and flat coriaceous pods, 6 in. by f in. ; Grand Basa, 



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*M. pallens, Stapf (nov. spec.) : a glabrous tree (?) with slender 

 branches; leaves up to i ft. long with usually 13 opposite 

 ovate to oblong acuminate thin papery stipellate leaflets, i A in. — 

 4 in. by I — 2 in., very pale green below and increasing in size 

 from the lowest pair upwards ; racemes or narrow panicles 

 axillary, very slender, i — ^ in. long ; flowers papilionaceous or 

 silky on pedicels, up to ^ in. long ; calyx cup-shaped obscurely 

 5-dentate, slightly silky downy, I in. long ; corolla almost 

 I in. long, pale purplish (?) with the standard silky on the 

 outside; Monrovia and Kakatown, ]V/iyU\ — It is allied to 

 M. drastica, VVelw., which has, however, more numerous narrow 

 leaflets and stiff rusty pubescent racemes. AI. drastica possesses 



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