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Carz Couony. Laingsburg Diy. : near Matjesfontein, Pillans, 
Described from a living plant sent by Mr. Pillans to the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in May, 1908. 
1012, Acridocarpus alopecurus, Sprague [Malpighiaceae]; species 
Rami brunnei, striolati, glabrescentes, lentieellosi. Folia elliptico- 
lanceolata, apice breviter acute acuminata, basi obtusa, 10-13 em. 
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uncertain, From the shape of the bracts and the presence of 
glands on the rhachis it might be placed in the second group 
(p. 199), but apart from these characters it has but little in common 
with A. Smeathmanni and A, congolensis. 
1013, Indigofera stenophylla, Guill. et Perr. var. ampla, Sprague 
[Leguminosae-Galegeae]; a typo et a var. macrocarpa foliolis 
latioribus, calyce grossius hirsuto, alis latioribus interne densius 
villosis recedit ; a var. brachypoda indumento grossiore, foliolis 
paucioribus longioribus, racemis longioribus distinguitur ; a var. 
Pi os caulibus hirsutis, foliolis latioribus, calyce patule hirsuto 
iffert. 
Rami validiusculi, leviter flexuosi, angulati, subappresse hirsuti. 
Folia 10-15 onga, 2~3-juga., -Foliola anguste 
oblanceolata, apice obtusa vel rotundata, mucronata, 3-6 cm. longa, 
7-14 mm, lata, discoloria. Racemi usque ad 13 em. longi, floribus 
post anthesin deflexis, Calyx extra patule castaneo-hirsutus, pilis 
usque ad 1 mm. longis (in typo ad 0°5 mm. longis); tubus vix 
mm. longus ; lobi postici 3 mm. longi, anticus 5-6 mm, longus, 
laterales intermedii. Petala rubra (Dodd) ; vexillum suborbiculare, 
leviter retusum vel truncatum, cuspidatulum, 5°5-6 mm. longum, 
4-4°5 mm. latum ; alae 7: mm. longae, 2°5 mm. latae, extra inferne 
dense villosae; carina ut in typo. Legumina 4°5-5 em longa, 
3°5 mm. lata. ; 
Lagos. On the road to Abeokuta, Millen, 69 ; without locality, 
Dawodu, 290 ; Ogbomosho, Bailey’s Collector, 3; in ‘the dry zone, 
Dodd, 427, 
The Lagos plant is here treated as a variety of J. stenophylla for. 
the sake of uniformity with E. G. Baker’s memoir on 
Indigoferas of Tropical Africa (Journ, Bot., 1903, p. 260). J. 
stenophylla might, however, equally well be restricted to the type 
