370 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Indigofera. 
the lower resting on the ground; tender shoots round and 
armed with innumerable hamose bristles. Leaves unequally 
pinnate, horizontal. Leaflets two pair with a terminal one, 
linear-oblong, entire, of a firm texture, rather lucid above, 
and reticulated underneath ; about three inches long, Peti- 
oles round, and armed like the other tender parts. Stipules 
scariose, broad-based, long taper-pointed, caducous; those of 
the leaflets similar, but smaller. Racemes terminal, sessile, of- 
ten several together, their base imbricated with many, broad- 
based, tapering, ciliate, permanent bractes. Bractes of the 
raceme solitary, lanceolate, two-flowered, caducous. Pedi- 
cels longer than the flowers, very hairy, becoming incurved 
when the corol drops. lowers numerous, rose-coloured, 
pretty large. Calyx five-cleft ; division subulate, the upper 
two when in blossom, for in need they become the undermost, 
_ rather small, all are very hairy. — 
INDIGOFERA. Schreb. gen. N. 1205. 
-Corol with an awl-shaped spreading spur on each side of 
the keel. 
1.1. finifolia, Willd. iii, 1220, Corom. pl. ii. N. 196. 
Perennial, cespitose. Leaves simple. Legumes globular, 
seeded. 
Hedysarum linifolium, Linn, Suppl. 331. 
Beng. Bhangra. 
Common amongst grass all over India; it is probably the 
smallest of the genus. In Bengal there are two varieties ; one 
with red, the other white flowers. 
2. I. echinata. Willd. ii. 1222. 
Stems prostrate. Leaves simple, obovate, dotted, Racemes 
axillary, Legumes saenas speeds hooked heiatlon me 
the convex side, one-seeded, ~ peg? 
Hedysarum rotundifolium. Vahl. Symb. ii, p. 81. see 
