Indigofera.] xlvii. § papilionaceje (baker). 75 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! and others . 

 Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 



19. I. conjugata, Baker. Sufiruticose, ultimate branches firm, 

 subtetragonous, thinly coated with white silvery hairs. Stipules linear, 

 2 lines long". Petiole \ in. long, tetragonous, silky. Leaves of two 

 oblanceolate leaflets, the terminal one on a petiolule \ in. long, the 

 blade 2-2J in. long, §-|- in.' broad, narrowed from above the centre to 

 both ends, the lateral one similar, smaller, sessile, erecto-patent, tex- 

 ture firm, the under surface thinly silky when young, both glabrous 

 in the mature plant. Flowers in short-stalked lax axillary racemes 

 2 inches long, of more than 20 flowers each. Pedicels half as long as 

 the campanulate calyx, which is \ in. deep, cut down nearly to the base 

 into subulate teeth, the two lowest the longest. Corolla yellowish, 

 twice as long as the calyx. Pods deflexed, linear mucronate, 1 in. long, 

 1 line thick, slightly silky, compressed, many-seeded. 



Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Petherick ! 



20. I. capitata, Kotschy, PI. Binder. 16, t. 6. A shrub with an erect 

 stem; branches copious, woody, erecto-patent, not silvery. Stipules 

 small, linear, rigid, deciduous. Petioles, spreading, firm, \ in. long. 

 Leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate, ^-§ in. long, 1J-2 lines broad, the point 

 narrowed or rather rounded with a sharp mucro, firm in texture, not at 

 all silvery. Flowers in dense rounded terminal heads f-1 in. broad. 

 Bracts pinnate with narrow linear divisions. Calyx 3-4 lines deep, 

 cleft three-quarters of the way down, ciliated but scarcely at all silky. 

 Corolla falling short of the calyx. Pod oblong-mucronate, 2 lines 

 long by 1 line broad, 2-seeded, ultimately glabrous, chestnut-brown. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot I Old Calabar, Mylne ! 

 Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Binder! Petherick! Open ground at 

 Madi, SpeJce and Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Capt. Burton! Br. Wehvitsch! 



21. I. strobilifera, Hoehst. in Kotsch. Hb. Nub. No. 236. Stem a 

 foot or more high, herbaceous, the branches divaricate, firm, angular, 

 clothed with loose pale brown silky pubescence. Stipules ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, persistent, l|-2 lines broad. Petioles 2-3 lines long, spread- 

 ing. Leaflets 5-7, oblong or oblanceolate, J-f in. long, 3-4 lines 

 broad, the lateral ones opposite, sessile, pointed, both sides permanently 

 clothed with dense pale brown, loose, silky pubescence, like that of the 

 stem. Flowers in dense copious terminal heads, which are 1-2 in. long 

 by more than half-an-inch broad, with large nearly round cordate 

 slightly pointed bracts which entirely hide the flowers. Peduncles 



f in', long. Bracts J-§ in. broad, densely imbricated, usually deeply 

 ifid, in texture and silkiness resembling the leaves and stipules. 

 Flowers 1-2 together, on pedicels \ in, long. Calyx \ in. deep, very 

 silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching nearly down to the base. Corolla 

 not more than equalling the calyx. Pod oblong, mucronate, 2-3 lines 

 long, 1 line thick, subterete, 2-4-seeded. — Eilemanthus stroUlifer, 

 Hoehst. in Flora, 1846 ; 593. 



