-* The Libenan Flora 



long with a sickle-shaped keel and cylindric pods, ij by J- 



in. ; Basa Cove, Anselll ; Cape Palmas, Vogel, 161 ! 

 Indigofera hirsuta, Z. : a villous annual with pinnate 5 7-foliolatc 

 greyish green leaves opposite blunt leaflets, slender very villous 

 dense racemes of subsessile red papilionaceous flowers, in. 

 long, and hairy pods, \ j in. by \ in. ; Monrovia, Whyte\ 

 I. endecaphylla, Jacq. : a decumbent or suberect adpressedly hairy- 

 weed with pinnate 7 Q-foliolate leaves, blunt leaflets, dense 

 axillary racemes of red papilionaceous flowers, J in. long, and 

 pointed cylindric pods, \ J in. by T ^ in. ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 

 1 06 ! ; 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, J in. long, and reflexed 

 sickle-shaped pods, J f in. long ; Monrovia, Whyte \ 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 

 \ in. long, and flat velvety pods ; in the bush of the littoral, 

 Fish tow n, Dinklage, 1672, 1764! 



M. thonningii, Baker : a glabrous shrub or small tree with pinnate 

 leaves, u 13 papery acuminate leaflets, i 3 in. by f ij in., 

 peduncled racemes of purplish papilionaceous flowers, f in. 

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

 Vogel, 33 ! 



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

 branches; leaves up to i ft. long with usually 13 opposite 

 ovate to oblong acuminate thin papery stipellate leaflets, ij 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, i | in. long ; flowers papilionaceous or 

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

 5-dentate, slightly silky downy, \ in. long ; corolla almost 

 f 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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