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Indigofera hirsuta, Linn. var. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,400 ft., Lugard, 185a; Mrs. Lugard, 127. 
An erect annual, growing to 14 in. high ; flowers pink. 
may easily be recognised by the following characters: — In 
I. diphyila, the racemes (either in flower or fruit) are not more 
than 1 inch long and are subsessile or with a very short peduncle, 
and the pods gradually taper into a stout beak-like style, which is 
as long as the seed-bearing part and abruptly curved at the base, 
so that the entire fruit is curved nearly in a semicircle. In 
I, flavicans the racemes are 14-2} in, long, including the very 
distinct peduncles 4—} of an inch in length, and the pod somewhat 
abruptly tapers into a much more slender style not more than half 
as long as the seed-bearing part, which, together with the base of 
the style is straight, only the glabrous apical part of the style 
being incurved-hoo ed; the leaves are also larger in J, flavicans, 
otherwise the two species are very much alike and should be placed 
next each other. J. diphylla seems confined to the northern part 
and I. flavieans to the southern part of Tropical Africa. The 
following specimens of I. flavicans are contained in the Kew 
Herbarium :— 
South Tropical Africa, Baines, Angola: by the River Longa, 
Baum, 668. Amboland : Olukonda, Rautanen, 216 ; Omupanda, 
Lugard, 190; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 197. — Bechuanaland : 
Eastern Bamanguato Territory, Holub, 1098. Portuguese Hast 
Africa: Chiloane, Scott ; Mozambique, Peters. 
<< spreading, creeping over the sand ; flowers purple or deep 
awe dentata, NV. FE. Br. Annua, erecta, ramosa, pilis medio 
alixis parce adpresse pubescens. Folia pinnata; foliola 5-7, 
opposita, 1°8—5 em, longa, 6-14 mm. lata, lanceolata-oblonga, obtusa, 
integra vel dentata. Racemi foliis longiores, pedunculati. Calyx 
parvus ; tubus oblique cupularis, inaequaliter 5-dentatus. Corolla 
purpurea, glabra. Legumen lineari-teres 
ong, 3-7 lines broad, lanceolate-oblon i 
| g, obtuse or truncate, entire 
it. Mess = thed, green, paler beneath ; stipules about } in. long, 
(20- or a es Bas axillary, longer than the leaves, erect, many- 
elongata owered ; peduncle 14-14 in, long ; flowering part 
gating and the flowers becoming rather distant, 2-5 in. long. 
