Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: INDIGOFEREAE 149 



33. Indigofera Lindheimeriana Scheele, Linnaea 21: 464. 

 1848. 



A shrub, 5-10 dm. high or more; branches somewhat angled, densely strigose; stipules 

 subulate-setaceous, 2 mm. long; leaves 7-12 cm. long; rachis and petiole densely strigose; 

 leaflets 7-15, petioluled, obovate to elliptic, rounded and mucronate at the apex, acute at 

 the base, 1-2 cm. long, 7-12 mm. wide, densely white-strigose on both sides; stipels present, 

 minute, subulate; racemes in flower somewhat shorter than the leaves but in fruit longer; 

 calyx densely strigose, 1.5 mm. long; corolla 6 mm. long; wings linear, oblique at the apex; 

 pod terete, 2-2.5 cm. long, fully 2 mm. thick, somewhat arcuate, 5-7-seeded; seeds 2.5 mm. 

 long, 1.5 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Shores of Guadalupe River, at Indian Point, Texas. 



Distribution: Texas, Coahuila, and Nnevo Leon. 



34. Indigofera suffruticosa Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. 

 Indigofera no. 2. 1768. 



Indigofera tinctoria Mill. Gard Diet. cd. 8. Indigofera no. 1. 176S. Not /. lincloria L. 1753. 



Indigofera Anil h. Mant. 272. 1771. 



Indigofera divaricata Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. />!. 365. 1798. 



Indigofera Gualimala Lunan, Hort. Jam. 420. 1814. 



Indigofera tinctoria brachvearpa DC. Prodr. 2: 224. in part. 1825. 



Indigofera Anil polvphvlla DC. Prodr. 2: 225. 1825. 



Indigofera Comezueio Moc. «% Sesse; D.C. Prodr. 2: 225, as synonym. 1825. 



Indigofera Anil drepanocarpa Berg, in Berg & Schmidt, Darst. Ofliz. Gew. 4: 30d, in part. 1863. 



Anila tinctoria vera Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 160. 1891. 



A shrub, 0.5-2 m. high; branches strict, angled, strigose; stipules subulate-setaceous, 

 3 mm. long; leaves 8-15 cm. long; rachis and petiole densely strigose; leaflets 9-15, elliptic 

 to obovate or oblanceolate. acute or obtuse and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base, 

 1.5-3.5 cm. long, decidedly strigose beneath, sparingly so, but usually glabrate in age above; 

 racemes dense, 2-5 cm. long, much shorter than the leaves; calyx densely strigose, 1.5 mm. 

 long; corolla orange, 5-6 mm. long; pod 1.5-2 cm. long, about 2 mm. broad, slightly flattened, 

 strongly curved, 3-7-seeded; seeds 2 mm. long, I mm. thick. The cultivated plant is usually 

 less pubescent than the wild one. 



Type locality: (By inference) Jamaica. 



Distribution : Bermudas; South Carolina to Florida and Texas, south to Bolivia and Argentina; 

 naturalized in tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia. 



Illustrations: Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. pi. 365; Berg & Schmidt, Darst. Ofliz. Gew. 4: pl.jOd (as 

 /. tinctoria) ; Diet. Sci. Nat. pi. 251; Descourt. Fl. Ant. 1 : pi. 17; Bot. Mag. pi. 6506; Cycl. Am. Hort. 

 /. 1133. , 



35. Indigofera truxillensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 

 456. 1823. 



Indigofera tinctoria brachvearpa DC. Prodr. 2: 224, in part. 1825. 

 Indigofera Anil oligophylla DC. Prodr. 2: 225. 1825. 

 Anila tinctoria media Kuutze, Rev. Gen. 160. 1891. 



A shrub, 5 dm. high or more, branched; branches angled, densely strigose; stipules subu- 

 late-setaceous, 3 mm. long; leaves 5-10 cm. long; leaflets 7-11, oblong to obovate, rounded 

 at the apex, acute at the base, strigose on both sides, 1-2 cm. long; racemes dense, about 

 5 cm. long; calyx 1.5 mm. long, flowers like those of /. suffruticosa; pod 1.5-2 cm. long, 2-2.5 

 mm. broad, slightly arcuate, but less so than in the preceding, more gradually tapering at 

 the apex, 3-6-seeded, mostly 4-seedcd. Perhaps not distinct from /. suffruticosa, but so 

 regarded by Prain & Baker (Jour. Bot 40: 137. 1902). 



TypR locality: Truxillo, Peru. 



I Distribution: Veracruz, Sonora, and Sinaloa; Panama; Jamaica; Porto Rico; St. Vincent; also 

 from Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia. 



Illustrations: Sloane, Hist. Jam. pi. 176, f. 3; IChret, Trew & Vogel, PI. Sel. pi. 54. 



36. Indigofera fruticosa Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: 

 140. 1897. 

 A shrub, 1-1.5 m. high, branches terete, densely strigose and slightly glandular-hispidul- 

 ous; stipules subulate-setaceous, 2 mm. long; leaves spreading, 4-7 cm. long; rachis and petiole 



