Indigofera] xliv. leguminos/b. 213 



undershrub, much branched at the base ; rootstock thick woody ; 

 branches ascending, with close "branchlets ; flowers small, scarlet or 

 red-scarlet ; pods sometimes short ovoid and 1- or 2-seeded, sometimes 

 on the same stem, oblong-linear and several-seeded. In elevated rather 

 dry shortly grassy pastures, at an elevation of about 5400 ft., in Morro 

 de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 2051. 



22. I. setiflora Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 90. 

 Anil(a) setiflora O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 940. 



Huilla. — A little shrub, with ascending reddish branches ; flowers 

 red-lilac, rather fugacious. Sporadic, in exposed grassy somewhat 

 sandy places, at the borders of forests, by the road from Ferrao da 

 Sola towards Jau, in the Lopollo territory ; fl. April 1860. No. 2020. 



23. I. mimosoides Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 90. 

 Anil(a) mimosodes O. Kuntze, I.e. p. 939. 



Pxjngo Andongo. — In sandy shortly bushy pastures, between Qui- 

 binde and Quitage, sparingly ; fl. March 1857. A unique specimen. 

 No. 2046. 



Huilla. — Flowers violet-coloured, much smaller than in Indigofera 

 phyllanthoides Baker (No. 2044) ; pods straight, rather hairy, erect- 

 patent. In shortly grassy pastures, in company with various Labiatae ; 

 in Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. end of March 1860. No. 2045. 



Ambeiz. — Fl. and f r. Nov. 1853. Poor specimens, perhaps belonging 

 to this species, and also very like /. viseosa dam. No. 4151. 



24. I. subcorymbosa Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 91. 

 Anil(a) subcorymbosa O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 940. 



Huilla. — A slender, erect, distantly branched shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, 

 with the habit of a Coronilla ; leaflets 5 to 7, tender ; flowers scarlet, 

 soon turning brick-red. In rocky sparingly bushy places, among ferns 

 and shrubs, along the base of the mountains of Morro de Lopollo ; fl. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 2053. 



25. I. rhynchocarpa Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 92. 

 Anil(a) rhynchocarpa O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



Pungo Andongo. — A robust suffruticose herb, 2 to 4 ft. high and 

 more, woody at the base, with the habit of Galega officinalis L. ; stem 

 straight, branched, flowering towards the apex; branches erect-patent; 

 leaflets 7 to 9, coriaceous, obscurely green, rather glossy, glaucescent 

 beneath ; pilose hairs fixed on the middle of the lower surface of the 

 leaflets ; calyx and standard greenish outside ; keel whitish ; wings 

 rose-coloured ; standard embracing the half shorter wings and the 

 equally long keel ; petals of the keel much cohering in front, after 

 flowering thrown off with elasticity together with the standard and 

 wings. Stamens diadelphous, the vexillary filament geniculate at the 

 base ; anthers aristate-mucronate ; style filiform, bent at the apex 

 in a rectangular manner ; stigma narrowly capitate ; pod cylindrical, 

 reddish, sub-torulose, pendulous from the much-thickened pedicel, lj 

 to 2§ in. long, straight but incurved, clavate-capitate and mucronate at 

 the apex. In thickets with tall herbage about Oatete, not far from 

 the fortress ; fl. and unripe fr. 10 Jan. 1857 ; with ripe fr. April 1857. 

 No. 2015. 



Huilla. — An erect glaucescent undershrub, 1J to 2 ft. high ; pod 

 clavate-thickened at the apex. In bushy wooded places between 

 Catumba and Hay ; fr. April 1860. No. 2017. 



