88 xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). [Indigofera. 



ones opposite, similar but smaller, texture firm, both sides densely 

 grey-silky. Flowers in dense copious erecto-patent bracteate axillary 

 racemes under an inch long-. Pedicels very short. Calyx \ in. long", 

 gTey- silky, cut down nearly to the base, the teeth linear -subulate, about 

 equalling the corolla. Pod linear, 3-4 lines long, under 1 line thick, 

 densely grey-silky, 3-4-seeded. 



Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Inhambane, Dr. Peters! 



In general habit and the shape and texture of its leaves resembling i". paucifolia, but 

 quite different in calyx and pod. 



59. I. paucifolia, Delile;DC. Prod. ii. 224. A .suberect shrub 

 4-8 ft, high, with slender, terete, flexuose, argenteous canescent 

 branches. Stipules minute, linear-subulate, deciduous. Petioles 3-4 

 lines, argenteous. Leaflets 3-5, obovate-oblong, the terminal one 6-9 

 lines long, blunt with a mucro, the lateral ones laxly placed, usually 

 alternate, both sides grey-green, and especially the under one argen- 

 teous. Racemes short- stalked, 20-40-flowered, usually exceeding their 

 leaves. Pedicel and calyx 1 line, both argenteous, the lower teeth of 

 the latter lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla scarlet, twice the 

 calyx, argenteous externally. Pod 6-9 lines long, 1 line broad, linear, 

 slightly upcurved and torulose, glaucous, 6-8-seeded. — /. erythrantha, 

 Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2178. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Leprieur ! Heudelot ! 

 North Central. Kouka, near Lake Tschad, E. Vogel! 



Nile Land. Nubia and Abyssinia, frequent, Sieber ! Schimper ! Speke and 

 Grant 1 &c. 

 Lower Guinea. Benguella, Dr. Welwitsch! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 

 Also Egyptian, Arabian, and East Indian. 



60. I. hirsuta, L. ; DC. Prod. ii. 228. An erect or decumbent mode- ' 

 rately branched annual or biennial, reaching 2-3 ft. high, with stems 

 densely clothed with long fine spreading brown pubescence. Stipules 

 setaceous, 3-4 lines, plumose. Leaves 1 |— 3 in. ; leaflets usually 0-7, 

 rarely 9, obovate, 9-15 lines long, blunt with a faint mucro, grey and 

 thinly silky above, more densely silky beneath, the midrib brown, all 

 distinctly petiolulate, the side ones always opposite. Racemes mode- 

 rately dense, 2-5 inches long, on erecto-patent peduncles shorter than 

 the Reaves. Bracts setaceous, brown-plumose. Pedicels J line long, 

 cernuous. Calyx J in. long, densely brown- silky, the setaceous teeth 

 reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla scarlet, half as long again 

 as the calyx. Pod linear, straight, 6-9 lines long, 1 line broad, densely 

 clothed with spreading grey or brown pubescence, 6-8-seeded. — Jacq. 

 Ic. t. 569. Beauvois Fl. d'Oware, t. 119. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag., 

 t. 24. I.ferruginea, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 370. I.fusca, G.Don, 

 Gard. Diet, ii.' 211. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea Proper Beauvois, 

 Thonning, Vogel ! and others. Island of St. Thomas, G.Don! 

 North Central. Bornu, E. Vogel! 

 Nile Land. White Nile, Petherick! Unyoro and Mininga, Speke and Grant! 



