170 FLORA OF ADEN. 
1. Indigofera paucifolia (Forsk.) Del. FI. cF Eg. p. 127, tab. 37, fig. 
2 ; DC. Prodr. II, 224 ; Boiss. FI. Or. II, 190 • Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 
II, 97 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 88. 
Indigofera erythrantha Hochst. in Sehimp. Hb. Abyss, n. 2178. 
Indigofeia oblongifolia Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 137. 
Indigofera argentea Roxb. FI. Brit. Ind. Ill, 374. 
Indigofera heterophylla Roxb. mss. 
Arabic name : — Hassar. 
Description : — A suberect shrub, 4-8 feet high ; branches numerous, 
stout, woody, argenteo-canescent. Leaves imparipinnate ; stipules £ inch 
long, lanceolate, acuminate. Leaflets 3-5, alternate, f-1 by inch, 
oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, more or less hairy above, hoary with 
dense white hairs beneath, base acute. 
Flowers small, in long spiked 20-50-flowered racemes ; pedicels short. 
Calyx -jV inch long, silvery outside ; teeth as long as the tube, triangu- 
lar, acute. Corolla red, thrice the calyx. 
Pods 6-9 lines long, slightly curved outwards, torulose. Seeds 6-8, 
oblong, obtusely 4-gonous, truncate at one end. 
Flowers: — August 1898 (Birdw.). 
Locality: — Aden (Birdw.) ; Little Aden in a ravine of Jebel Ihsan 
(Defl.) ; near Shaikh Othman (Ellenbeck, Busse). 
Distribution: — Java, Ceylon, India, Baluchistan, Arabia, Abyssinia, 
Nubia, Kordofan, Socotra, Senegambia. 
var. carpostigma Schweinf. Bull. Herb* Boiss. 1896, App. II, 
240. 
This variety differs from the type by the pods being very much con- 
stricted between the seeds; the leaves are 1-2-foliolate. There is no 
similar form in Arabia., Nubia or Egypt. 
Fruits: — In November (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Plain of Maala (Schweinf.). 
3. Indigofera parvula Del. in Caill. Yoy. 38, t. 3, fig. 1. 
Description Stem 6-9 inches long, suffruticose, trailing, copiously 
and diffusely branched from the base ; the branches slender, firm, terete 
thinly silky. Stipules large, ovate-acuminate, persistent, slightly adnate 
to the petiole. Leaflets 3, obovate, mucronate, £ inch long, silky. 
Flowers in lax clusters of 2-6 ; peduncles about J inch long. Calyx 
thinly silky, the lower teeth lanceolate. Corolla twice as long as the 
calyx. 
Pod spreading, linear, mucronate, £ inch long, 1 line thick, silky, 
nearly terete, 5-6-seeded. 
Fruits : — August 1898 (Birdw.), 
