404* Indigofeha viscosa (Lara.) suffruticose, erect, 



much branched ; branches, petioles, peduncles, and le- 

 gumes glutinous, with rigid gland-tipped hairs: leaves 

 petioled, pinnated: leaflets 4-8 pairs, elliptic-oblong, 

 pubescent from white adpressed hairs, particularly on 

 the under side : racemes peduncled about the length of 

 the leaves or longer: flowers distant, small: calyx-seg- 

 ments short-subulate : legumes cylindrical, horizontal, 

 straight : seeds 6-12, cylindrical, truncated at both ends. 



W. and A. Prod p. 200. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 dissected flower — 3 nine sta- 

 mens united into one brotherhood —4 spurred keel of the 



corolla. 



405. /Eschy v omene indica (Linn. Hedysarum Nali- 

 Tali, Roxb.) annual, diffuse, branched : branches slen- 

 der, glabrous : young shoots, petioles, and peduncles, of- 

 ten slightly muricated : leaflets 15-20 pairs, linear, ob- 

 tuse at* both ends: peduncles axillary, slender, few-flow- 

 ered, often with a small leaf at the base of the pedicels : 

 calyx and corolla glabrous : legumes long- < talked, 6-10- 

 jointed; joints at first smooth, afterwards with a few 

 glandular dots, when mature rough with irregular con- 



uent warts, tumid in the middle, thinner at the edge.— 

 a; Branches thicker, more spongv , ascending, arising 

 from the root and along the main branch.— VV. and A. 



Trod. p. 219, 



Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



406. Desmodiitm polycarpum (DC. Hedysarum pur- 

 pureum Roxb.) suffruticose, procumbent, branched, of- 

 ten rooting at the joints : branches slightly angled, usu- 

 ally with white adpressed pubescence, but often with 

 white spreading hairs on the 3/oung shoots : leaves trifoli- 

 olate ; leaflets from exactly oval and obtuse at both ends 

 to obovate-retuse or mucronate ; upper side glabrous or 

 very sparinglj pubescent; under reticulately veined, 

 usually pubescent, sometimes covered with long soft 

 •white silky down ; lateral leaflets rather smaller than the 



terminal one, sometimes wanting : petiole slightly mar- 

 gined : stipules acuminated, deciduous: racemes axillary 

 and terminal, many-flowered: bracteas broadly ovate, 

 pointed, pubescent, before expansion densely imbricated : 

 pedicels nearly elabrous : keel narrow, straight, incurved 

 at the apex, long* r than the alae : legumes erect, hispid, 

 5- 6-jointed, straight on the one margin, notched into the 

 middle on the other. -W. and A. Prod. p. 227. 

 Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



407 Desmodtum patens (Hedysarum patens Roxb.) 



perennial, diffuse: leaflets oblong: racemes terminal: 

 bracteas three-fold, one-flowered: legume from oto6 

 jointed, notched underneath, hammose bristled.— Koxb. 



Fl. Ind. III. p. 363. 



Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



408 Flemingia procumbens (Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hedy- 

 sarum procumbens Roxb. M Ss. non Fl. Ind.) perennial, 

 procumbent, 3-sided, particularly when dry, racemes ax- 

 illary, length of the leaves, legumes and calyx be-spnn- 

 kled with garnet-coloured grams.— Roxb. M. Ind. III. 



p. 338. 



1 Flowering branch- 



tbf same opened. 



2 dissected flower— 3 legume 



4 



( 



409 Desmouium diffusum (DC. Hedysarum diffu- 

 sum Roxb) herbaceous, procumbent, diffuse, branched: 

 branches 4-5 -angled, hispidly pubescent: leaves tnfolio- 

 late- leaflets oval, pubescent on both sides: stipules 

 lar»J foliaceous, auricled and stem-clasping : racemes 

 terminating every branch, very long : bracteas small, Ian- 

 ceolate 2-3 together : flowers in pairs or threes : legumes 

 ascending or nearly erect, 5-6-jointcd, notched on both 

 sutures, hispid with short hooked hairs ; joints orbicular, 

 tumid in the middle when mature: seeds ova, com- 

 pressed, with the hilum at one of the narrow ends.— VV. 



and A. Prod. p. 226. . 



Branch copied from Roxburgh s drawing. 



410. Cassia nodosa (Roxb.) leaves bifarious; leaflets 

 ten-paired oblong: stipules obliquely crescent-shaped, 

 with a bristle at each angle : racemes lateral : three 

 lower filaments with a globular swelling near the middle. 

 Chittagong Roxb. Fl. Ind. I p. 336. 



This like the other species of the section Cathartocar- 



pus has albuminous seed. 



1 Flowering branch-2 stamens— 3 portion of the 

 ovary— 4 legume. 



411. Urarta ncTA (Desv. Hedysarum pictum Roxb.) 



shrubby, erect, young parts clothed with hooked hairs : 

 leaves simple and pinnated ; simple ones oblong-ovate ; 

 leaflets of the compound ones 2-4-pair, linear- lanceolate, 

 obtuse, upper side clouded, under a little reticulated and 

 pubescent : racemes terminal, very long, spike-like, rigid : 

 bracteas below the raceme persistent, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminated, rigid: pedicels covered with short hooked 

 hairs, much incurved at the apex after flowering : calyx- 

 segments bearded with long hairs, lanceolate-setaceous, 

 the lower ones at length about twice as long as the upper: 

 legume 3-6-jointed.— W. and A. Prod. p. 221. 



Flowering branch, copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



4 1 2. Pueraria tube rosa (DC. Hedysarum tubero- 

 sum, Roxb.) root tuberous, very large: stems woody, 

 twining: leaflets roundish, pubescent above, beneath 

 silky-villous : stipules cordate : racemes simple or branch- 

 ed, the length of the leaves, from the cicatrices of the 

 fallen leaves: flowers (blue) in threes: calyx 4-cleft, 

 silky ; segments about equal, ovate, the upper one the 

 broadest and almost entire : legumes very hairy, linear, 

 pointed, 2-()-*see' 3 ed, much contracted between the seeds. 



W. and A. Prod. p. 205. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 a leaf— 3 legume. Copied from 

 Roxburgh's drawing. 



413. Lagehstrcemta Regin^e (Roxb.) leaves oblong, 

 glabrous: panicle terminal : calyx tomentose, longitudi- 

 nally furrowed and plaited : petals orbicular, waved, 

 shortly unguiculate : stamens all about equal, broadly 

 ovoid, 6-celled.— W. and A. Prod. p. 308. 



2 a flower the petals 



- 5 the same 



1 Flowering branch, natural size- 

 removed — 3 anthers, one dehiscing — 4 ovary 

 cut transversely — 6 cut vertically — 7 capsules nearly full 



8 the same cut vertically — 9 cut transversely 



11-1*2 seed natural size and 



grown - 



10 mature and dehiscing 



ifi 



414. Pergularia odoratissimy (Smith) twining 

 branches softly pubescent : leaves cordate, acuminate, 

 pubescent on the veins : cymes short peduncled, many- 

 flowered : corolla segments short, obtuse, tube twice as 

 long as the gynoscegium, furnished within with, five lines 

 of defiexed hairs, decurrent from the sinuses : crown of 

 the stamens as long as the gynostegium. — Wight's con- 

 trib p. 43. 



1 Flowering branch, natural size — 2 a dissected flower 

 corolla removed and the calyx opened to show the gynos- 

 tegum— 3 corolla opened— 4 gynostegum detached — 5 

 the same, the anthers turned back to show the pollen 

 cells and pollen masses in situ— 6 the stigma and pollen 

 masses, anthers removed — 7 detached pollen masses — 8 

 ovary cut vertically — \) one carpel cut transversely. 



415. DtosPYRos kaki (Koeiiig) leaves bifarious, 

 ovate, cordate, downy: male peduncles three-flowered: 

 stamina about 20: hermaphrodite, solitary, octandrous : 

 style four-cleft ; stigmas bifid. — Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. p. 527. 



Upper figure — 1 flowering branch, male plant— 2 a 

 dissected fiowev— Lower figure— \ floweriug branch bi- 

 sexual plant —2 corolla ^plit open — anther — 4 ovary 

 and styles— 5 detached stigma- 6 calyx — 7 a fruit full 

 grown seen from above — 8 the same seen from below — 9 

 cut transversely 8-celled — 10 a seed— 11 the same cut 

 longitudinally, the embrjo in the apex of a large albumen, 



416. Diospvros racemosa (Roxb.) leaves from ob- 

 long to lanceolar, obtuse, glossy : both male and herma- 

 phrodite flowers on axillary, cymose racemes ; the former 

 with 20 or 30 stamina, the latter with 12 or 16 : germ 

 4 -celled; style none, stigma 4-cleft: berries round, 

 smooth, with as many as four seeds — Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 

 p. 536. 



Obs. The figure of the hermaphrodite plant differs 

 from the character of the species, in having solitary not 

 cymose flowers. 



Upper figure — \ male plant flowers and leaves — 2 co- 

 rolla and stamens — 3 calyx- Lower figure — 1 flowering 

 branch, bi-sexual plant — 2 corolla split and forcibly open- 

 ed showing the stamens — 3 ovary and calyx — 4 cut ver- 

 tically — 5 cut transversely— 6 full grown fruit seen from 

 below — 7 cut transversely 4 -celled — 8 a seed — 9 the 

 same cut v longitudinally showing the embryo. Copied 

 from Roxburgh's drawing- 



