380 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Indigofera. 
Ameri. Rheed. Mal. i. t. 54. 
Indicum. Rumpk. Amb. v. t. 80. : 
_ Native place uncertain, for though now common in a wild 
state over most parts of India, yet is in general not remote 
_ from places where it is or has been cultivated. 
17. I. violacea. R. 
Shrubby. Leaflets six pair, oblong. Racemes axillary, 
half the length of the leaves, Legumes straight, sub-cylin- 
dric, smooth, from six to ten-seeded, 
A native of the mountains about Hurdwar, where the seeds 
were collected by Mr. George Roxburgh, and sent to the Bo- 
tanic garden, where the plants thrive well, and blossom in Fe- 
bruary and March, at which time the shrub is uncommonly 
ornamental, especially when the flowers begin to fade, the 
rosy tinge then changing to a lively violet. 
18. L elliptica. Roxb. 
Shrubby. Leaflets six pair, exactly elliptic; smooth. Ra- 
cemes axillary, and from the naked branches, the length of the 
leaves. Legumes divaricate, straight, smooth, eight-seeded. 
A stout, shrubby, ramous, tolerably erect species ; a native 
of the eastern parts of Bengal. Flowering time the cool and 
beginning of the hot season, when the plant is nearly destitute 
of leaves. 
Leaves pinnate, from three to six inches long. Leaflets 
from four to eight pair, very exactly elliptic, being equally 
rounded at ach end, and all nearly equal; smooth on both” 
sides; about an inch long, by half of an inch broad, and 
generally deciduous duing the cool season. Stipules mi- 
nute, hairy. Racemes axillary, but more generally from the 
leafless branchlets of the former year, scarcely so long as the 
leaves, a little hairy, Bractes oval, concave, ciliate, one- 
flowered, caducous, Flowers pretty large, of a bright, lively 
pink. Legumes straight, somewhat four-sided, divaricate, 
smooth, acute, from six to ten-seéded. 
