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Herbs, ekect, with Alteknate Stipulate CoMPor>-D Leaves. 



Leaflets Two-Three. 



Petals Similar. 



long pointed, calj^x silky, persistent, lobes 5, alter- 

 nating with the bracteoles, long-pointed, petals -5, 

 heart-shaped with the notch outwards, stamens. 

 many, styles lateral, short, persistent ; carpels 

 very many, small, crowded on a small dry recepta- 

 cle, fruit is a head of many hard smooth achenes., 

 covered by the overlapping calyx lobes, achenea 

 one-seeded. 



Leaflets Many. 



Petals Dissimilar. 



Indigofera hirsuta, large, annual or biennial, densely hairy, with flat- 



Leguminos^. lying hairs ; leaves pinnate, 2-o in., shortly stalked^ 



F. B. I. ii. 98. leaflets 5-11, 1-2 in. long, opposite, ovate with a 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. broad tip, membranous, grey-green, stipules bristle- 

 like, feathered; flowers |^ in., red in dense slender 

 hairy axillary racemes 2-6 in., long, bracts minute,, 

 calyx ^ in., densely velvety, teeth 5, bristle-like, 

 long feathered, petals 5, not much longer than the- 

 calyx, soon falling oif, standard ovate with a broad 

 tip, keel petals united, straight, not beaked, spurred 

 on each side near the base, stamens 10, upper free,, 

 the rest united, anthers tipped with a minute pointy 

 style smooth, incurved; pod |-f in. long, cylindri- 

 cal, densely velvety, 6-8 seeded. 



Indigofera anabaptista, small, annual, branches spreading, covered thin- 



LEGtTMiNOSiE. ly with hairs like those of the last species, but 



¥. B. I. ii. 102. always white ; leaves pinnate, shortly stalked, leaf- 



The Plains. lets 3-7, opposite, |^-1 in. long, lanceolate with a 



broad tip, stipules bristle-like, presistent ; flowers- 



i in., scarcely longer than the calyx, in short 



dense, 12-20 flowered racemes, calyx ^ in. silvery 



haired, teeth bristly, pod linear, reflexed ; in other 



respects like the last species. 



