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

 in. ; Basa Cove, Anse/l\ ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, i6i ! 



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

 greyish green leaves opposite blunt leaflets, slender very villous 

 dense racemes of subsessile red papilionaceous flowers, ^ in. 

 long, and hairy pods, | — f in. by J in. ; Monrovia, IVhyte ! 



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, J in. long, and 

 pointed cylindric pods, | — | in. by ^5 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, ^ — f in. long; Monrovia, Wkyte\ — One 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 

 J 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 — \\ in., 

 peduncled racemes of purplish papilionaceous flowers, f in. 

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

 Vogel, 33! 



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

 branches ; leaves up to i ft. long with usually 1 3 opposite 

 ovate to oblong acuminate thin papery stipellate leaflets, l^ 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, \ — ^ in. long ; flowers papilionaceous or 

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

 S-denlate, slightly silky downy, i in. long; corolla almost 

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

 outside ; Monrovia and Kakatown, Whyte ! — It is allied to 

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

 leaflets and stiff rusty pubescent racemes. M. drastica possesses 

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