OH xlvii. § papilioxace^ (baker). [Indigofera. 



Corolla violet-purple, twice the calyx. Pod 2-3 lines long, f-1 line 

 thick, turgid, distinctly torulose, persistently grey-pubescent, the hairs 

 not gland-tipped. Seeds 2-3. 



Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 



A common East India species. 



82. I. endecaphylla, Jaeq. ; DC. Prod. ii. 228. An annual or 

 biennial with copiously branched suberect or prostrate stems 1-3 ft. 

 long, thinly grey-hispid upwards. Stipules 3-4 lines, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, membranous, persistent. Leaves 1-2J in. long ; leaflets 7-9, 

 oblanceolate -oblong, 6-12 lines long, blunt with a mucro, greenish and 

 glabrescent above, glaucous and inconspicuously grey-hispid below, all 

 distinctly stalked, side ones alternate. Racemes dense, 1-4 in. long- 

 on peduncles 3-18 lines long. Pedicels very short. Calyx 1-1J lines 

 long, the setaceous teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. 

 Corolla violet-purple, twice the calyx, glabrous externally. Pods de- 

 nexed, linear, 8-10 lines long, 1 line thick, subglabrous, 6-8-seeded. — 

 Beauv. Fl. d'Oware t. 84. /. anceps, Vahl, Poir. Enc. Suppl. iii. 147. 

 I. Schimperiana, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 366. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Gold Coast, Beauvois, Thonning, and 

 others. Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! Dahomey, Cap.. Burton! 



Nile Land. Nubia, Scliweiafurth. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- Dillon! and 

 others. Makata, Spehe and Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Congo, and most of the provinces of Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Heller! 



Extends southward to Natal and the Cape. 



Var. radicans, "Welw. Stems and branches quite trailing, rooting downwards. 

 Leaves 9-12 lines long; leaflets 3-5. Calyx ~ in. Corolla not more than half as long 

 again as the calyx. Pod 5-6 lines long, 4-5-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of the province of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 



83. I. phyllanthoid.es, Baker. An undershrub 2-3 ft. high with 

 very numerous ascending- finely grey-downy branches. Stipules 1 line, 

 setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, 9-18 lines long- ; leaflets 9-11, 

 obovate, J-f in. long*, 2-2 J lines broad, grey and persistently sca- 

 brous with minute grey bristles on both sides, all distinctly stalked, the 

 side ones opposite. Racemes exceeding- the leaves, 12-20-flowered, 

 1J-2 in. long-, shortly peduncled. Bracts like the stipules. Pedicels 

 | line, cernuous, brown-silky. Calyx f line, densely coated with mixed 

 brown and grey bristles, teeth setaceous, rather exceeding the tube. 

 Corolla \ in., violet, less fugacious than in most of its allies, densely 

 brown-silky on the outside. Ovary linear, clothed with adpressed grey 

 bristles, multiovulate. Pod not seen. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla province, Benguela, 5400 ft., Dr. Wehvitsch ! 



84. I. subulifera, Welm. mss. SufTruticose, 1J-3 ft. high, erect, 

 copiously branched, the erecto-patent rigid slender branches finely 

 grey-downy. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Petioles 1-4 lines 

 long. Leaves 1-3 in. long; leaflets 7-13, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 reaching 6-9 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, acute, greenish and thinly 



