406 PHANEROGAM1A. 



flowered: but the specimen bears ripe fruit only. Legume linear, 

 straight, four-sided, an inch long, glabrous, several- (9— 10-) seeded. 



I have not seen this remarkable species in any other collection, nor 

 do I know any with which it may be particularly compared. 



9. Indigofera filiformis, Thunb. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 



10. Indigofera coriacea, Ait. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope ; with the foregoing species. 



39. GLYCYRHIZA, Tourn. 



1. Glycyrhiza astragalina, Gillies. 



Q. foliolis oblongo-linearibus ; racemis laxiflor is folia superantibus ; legu- 

 mine inermi lazvi subgla?iduloso pseudo-lomentaceo moniliformi; semi- 

 nibus fere globosis. 



Glycyrliiza astragalina, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3 ; p. 183. 



Hab. Rio Negro, North Patagonia; common. (Also gathered at 

 Port Desire, by Mr. Darwin and Captain Middleton ; Port St. Helena, 

 Captain King; and Bahia Blanca, Mr. Tweedie; specimens of the 

 latter, like our own, with fruit.) 



Roots or creeping rootstocks with the taste of Liquorice. Stems a 

 span to a foot high, branching, and, like the whole plant, minutely 

 glutinous-glandular, otherwise glabrous. Stipules subulate, deciduous. 

 Leaflets 9 to 13, oblong-linear, retuse and mucronulate, thickish, 6 to 

 10 lines long. Racemes loosely-flowered, peduncled, usually exceeding 

 the leaves. Calyx campanulate, rather gibbous. "Corolla purple," 



