72 xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). [Indi^ofera. 



long-, 1 line thick, mucronate, subterete, thinly clothed with adpressed 

 silky hairs, many-seeded. 



South Central. In the interior, near the Tropic of Capricorn, Baines ! 



9. I. tetrasperma, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Gum. 365. A suberect 

 much branched undershrub 1—2 ft. high, with long- firm slender 

 woody branches, the upper part striated and thinly silky. Stipules 

 minute, subulate, deciduous. Leaves nearly sessile, simple, linear, 

 1-1 J in. long, \ in, broad, apex rounded and mucronate, the texture 

 firm, both sides scabrous, with copious strong* adpressed hairs. 

 Flowers in the axils of the leaves on suberect firm pedicels J in. long, 

 solitary, or if in pairs only one producing seed. Calyx campanulate, 

 minute, teeth acute. Corolla scarlet. Pod linear with a mucro, | in. 

 long, 1 line thick, subtetragonous, with a few short adpressed hairs, 4- 

 seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning. Senegambia, Heudelot! 



This was named under the impression that it was a plant briefly described under 

 the name of tetrasperma by Persoon {Ench. Bot. ii. 325; DC. Prodr. ii. 222); but 

 according to Webb, who examined an authenticated specimen in the herbarium of 

 Desfontaines, this latter is /. senegalensis. 



10. I. cordifolia, Both; DC. Prod. ii. 222. Stems herbaceous, 6-9 

 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched, the branches slender, terete, 

 clothed with spreading cottony pubescence. Leaves subsessile, simple, 

 cordate -ovate, \— § in. long, \— § in. broad, pointed, the upper surface 

 grey subglabrous, the lower clothed more or less densely with cottony 

 pubescence like that of the stem. Flowers in dense sessile clusters of 

 3—6 each in the axils of most of the leaves. Calyx cottony, tubular, 

 about 2 lines long, the teeth linear- setaceous, plumose, reaching three- 

 quarters of the way down. Corolla red, equalling the calyx. Pod 

 oblong cuspidate, 2 lines long, under 1 line thick, cottony, 2- or some- 

 times only 1-seeded, slightly exceeding the calyx. 



Nile Land. Nubia, ^ Kdrdofan and Sennaar, Kotschyl Schweinfurth I Abys- 

 sinia, Schimper I 



This also is East Indian, Malayan, and N. Australian. 



11. I. simplicifolia, Lam. ; DC Prod. ii. 222. Stem rigidly erect, 

 3-4 ft. high, suffruticose, the branches firm, slender, slightly adpressed 

 grey-silky. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves simple linear sub- 

 sessile, 1-1 \ in. long, 1-1 J lines broad, texture firm, both sides slightly 

 grey-hispid. Flowers in short subsessile 3-4-flowered racemes in the 

 axils of the leaves. Bracts linear, pedicels short, calyx about a line 

 deep, thinly silky, the teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the base. 

 Corolla whitish, 4-5 times the calyx, the standard silky on the back. 

 Pod not more than an inch long, a line thick, bluntly tetragonous, 

 glabrous when mature, 5— 6-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathmann! AfzeUusl 

 Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



12. I. macrocarpa, Leprieur, mss. Stem erect, suffruticose, 2-4 fit. 

 high, with copious firm erecto-patent slender striated finely silky 



