166 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) : [Indigofera. 
Ramose ; slender suffrutices, irregularly much branched, and twiggy. 
Leafl. elliptical, glabrescent ; racemes few- . 
flowered, twice as long as leaf ... ... .... (56) elliptica. 
Leafl. cuneate-oblong, strigillose ; peduncles : : 
long, many flowered ... (54) corniculata. 
Leafl. linear, canescent beneath ; pedune. long, 
many flowered... (58) Zeyheri. 
Leafi. sublanceolate, acute, canescent ; pedune. 
short, 3-4 flowered... (57) poliotes. 
Leafl. 2-1 jugate, linear-oblong, with inrolled 
margins (59) concava. 
Multicaules : Stems numerous, ‘suffruticose, subsimple or branched from the 
base, branches erect. 
Pubescence scanty, strigillose, appressed : 
Racemes on long slender peduncles ; calyx 
5-toothed ... ... (66) hedyantha. 
Racemes subsessile, or ‘searcely ‘longer 
than the leaves .... .. ... (67) hilaris. 
Pubescence glandular, copious ; the glands stipitate : 
Lfts. 2-3 lines long ; gland- -bristles long 
and (70) heterotricha. 
Lfts. 4-5 lines long ; gland-bristles short, Gi 
7t) sordida. 
(2) i diffuse or procumbent, shrubby, or half-herbaceous. 
ruticose : Stem distinctly woody : 
Villoso-tomentose ; leaves 4-5 jugate, — 
stipelled ee ... (55) malacostachys. 
Tomentose and hirsute ; vs. 2-3 jugate ; ‘leafl. 
obovate... ... .. (63) coriacea. “+ 
Strigose ; leaves subdigiate, 2 jugate ; leaflets : 
linear-oblong wes ... (62) filiformis. 
Thinly strigose ; lvs. 3-43 te ; ‘Ifts. Tinear, 
with revolute margins vga (60) angustifolia. + 
Suffruticose : Stems either scarcely ligneous, or very slender and filiform. 
Stem and branches with dark-brown bark, glabrescent : 
Lvs. 3-4 jugate ; leafl. linear, with revo- 
lute margins . (60) angustifolia, 8. 
Lys. 4 jugate ; leafl. elliptic-oblong, white 
underneath ... . (61) Mundtiana. 
Lvs. 4-6 jugate ; leaf, linear. lanceolate, : 
with involute-margins (65) capillaris. = 
Lvs. 2-jugate Se sg a leafl. elliptical 
obovate ... .-- (64) sarmentoss, + 
flowered (68) ovina, 
Racemes on long peduncles, many-flowered (69) glaucescens. 
6. Unijuge. Leaves impari-pinnate, wunijugate (or, leaflets 3, 2 of them oppo- 
site and lateral on a common petiole, which is prolonged beyond their insertion and 
bears the third (“ terminal” leaflet) at its summit.) (Sp. 72-76.) 
Racemes on long peduncles ; bracts small, subulate : 
Glabrescent ; leafi, -obovate-oblong ; petals pubes- 
cant: 4 (72) tetragonoloba. 
Strigoso-canescent ; ‘leaf. narrow ‘petals glabrous (73) intermedia. 
Racemes on long peduncles ; bracts broadly-ovate, acu- 
minate . (74) amoena. 
Racemes subsessile, shorter than the leaf ; annual, ‘silky (75) 
Racemes subsessile, er than the leaf ; pemastds 
glabrescent i Se ee denudata, var. y. 
Flowers axillary, in pairs, ‘on short pedicels ee tee (2) polycarpa, 2 
7. Producte. Leaves impari-pinnate, bi-multi-jugate, the leaflets opposite, the 
