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5. Indigofera viscosa, Lam. 



Indigo/era viscosa, Lam. Diet. 3, p. 247; DC. Prodr. 2. 227; Webb. Spicil. Gorg. 



p. 121. 

 I. glutinosa, Perr. in DC. 1. c. non Vahl. 



Hab. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands: very abundant in dry 

 places. 



6. Indigofera linearis, DC. 

 Hab. Cape de Verde Islands ; with the preceding species. 



7. Indigofera attstralis, Willd. 



Hab. Hunter's River, New South Wales.— A large form : also what 

 appears to be a much smaller and more slender variety : both in fruit 

 only. 



8. Indigofera adesmi^efolia, Sp. Nov. 



L fruticosa, ramosissima, glabra; foliis pinnatis; rhachi complanata 

 articulata; foliis Q-7-jugis parvis obovatis emarginatis vel fere obcor- 

 datis; pedunculis paucifloris ; legumine lineari recto tetragono pleio- 

 spermo. 



Hab. Hunter's River, New South Wales. 



A shrubby plant, apparently erect, very much branched, glabrous 

 throughout or very nearly so ; the branches slender. Stipules minute 

 and deciduous. Learns 'pinnate, with 6 or 7 pairs of obovate, emargi- 

 nate, nearly obcordate leaflets, which are only a line or a line and a half 

 in length, of a thickish texture, smooth on both sides. Petiole and 

 rhachis flattened and somewhat dilated, an inch and a half long; arti- 

 culated at the insertion of the leaflets, where it is apparently nodose- 

 glandular. Peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves, apparently few- 



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