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This shrub is nearly allied to Roxburgh's species just quoted, but it differs in having longer and altogether larger 
serrulated leaves, and very densely crowded flowers. Sa/acia densiflora, n. 4224. of my Catalogue of the Honourable 
Company’s Herbarium, is the same as our species. 
Plate CCLXXVIII. Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 
INDIGOFERA BRUNONIANA. Tab. 279. 
Erecra, ubiqué pube adpressá glauca; petiolo subelongato, foliolis 1—3, (poll. 4—53 longis, 13—21 latis,) ovato- 
lanceolatis, mucronatis; racemis folio longioribus, calycibus dentatis, leguminibus (immaturis) patentibus, rectis, 
rufo-tomentosis.—Graham MSS. 
Indigofera Brunoniana, Graham in Wall. Cat. Herb. n. 5491. 
Habitat in Burmæ montibus Prome, florens fine anni; inde in hortum Calcutta botanicum introducta. 
PLANTA suffruticosa, erecta, per totam superficiem pube adpressà glauca. Pirr centro adfixi. Cauurs erectus, subflexuosus, angulatus 
(simplex). SrrPULE a petiolo distinctae, filiformes, patentes, vel minutissimæ, recurvæ, adpressæ ; stipelle 2 ad apicem petioli. Prriou 
alterni, subelongati, superné canaliculati, 1—3-foliolati. Forrora ovato-lanceolata, mucronata, venosa, pollices 4—54 longa, 13-23 lata; 
lateralia minora, brevê petiolata, impar longè petiolatum ; vence parallelæ, subtransversales, subtüs elevate. RAcEMI spicati, axillares, 
pedunculati, folio longiores. Carvx 5-dentatus, demüm ferð planus. CororLæ 4-petalæ vexillum majus, oblongum, striatum, extòs rufo- 
pubescens; carina ciliata, calcaribus rectis, elongatis; ale carinà breviores. STAMINA diadelpha, imo calyci inserta, carinå occulta ; 
filamenta glabra; antheræ cordate, mucronate.  PrsriLLUM stamina æquans; ovarium lineare; stylus subulatus; stigma parvum, capi- 
tatum, glabrum. LEGUMEN elongatum, patens, rectum, rufo-tomentosum, compressum, marginibus callosum, seminibus (immaturis) 
isthmis cellulosis feré disjunctis.—Grah. MSS. 
I am indebted to my valued friend Professor Graham for the character and description, and to Dr. Greville for the 
elegant drawing, of this interesting Indigofera. In the wild state the leaves attain a much greater size than those of 
the annexed Plate, which represents a cultivated plant. Dr. Graham observes, that the cultivated plant, besides having 
the leaves smaller, narrower, and more lanceolate, has the stem less flexuose. The dried specimens of both states 
indicate, by their colour, the presence of a proportion of colouring matter, which may perhaps prove of great impor- 
tance, the leaves being infinitely larger than those of the plant cultivated for indigo (4. tinctoria), or, indeed, of any 
of the other species of this most extensive and difficult genus. I have taken measures to cultivate a sufficient quantity 
of the plant to enable me to ascertain what proportion and quality of the dye may be obtained from it. 
Plate CCLXXIX. Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of the calyx. 3. Vexillum, seen from its outer side. 4. The 
same, from the inner side. 5. Ala. 6. Carina. 7. Stamens and pistil. 8. Unripe legume. All (except Fig. 2.) more or 
less magnified. 
ANDROPOGON SCHGNANTHUS. Tab. 280. 
Andropogon Schenanthus, Linn. Roxb. Flor. Ind. vol. 1. p- 278. 
I beg to refer the reader to Dr. Roxburgh's work, just quoted, for a full description of this valuable grass. 
Dr. Fleming gives the following account of its medicinal properties in his Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and 
Drugs, inserted in the Asiatic Researches, vol. 11. p. 156. (separate edition of the Catalogue, p. 5.) 
“This plant, under the name of Juncus odoratus, had formerly a place in all European Pharmacopæias, but it is 
now rarely met with in the shops. It continues however to be a favourite herb with the Asiatics, both for medicinal 
and culinary purposes. The Hindu practitioners consider the infusion of the leaves as sudorific, diuretic, and emena- 
gogue. Whatever title it may have to these virtues, it is at least a very agreeable diluent; and on account of its 
fragrant smell, aromatic flavour, and warm, bitterish but not unpleasant taste, is generally found to be a drink very 
grateful to the stomach in sickness. Many Europeans with whom tea does not agree, use instead of it the infusion 
of this plant, to which they have given the name of Lemon-grass.” 
Dr. Maton, one of' the Vice Presidents of the Linnean Society, and Physician Extraordinary to the late Queen 
Charlotte, tells me that he has repeatedly been treated with a dish of Lemon-grass tea by Her Majesty, who used 
