INDIGOFERA. LEGUMINOSÆ. 203 
Rumph. amb. 5. t. 80, usually quoted for this species, is quite different. 
_ The form of the legume appears to be variable: De Candolle notices a short 
fruited variety, with which we are unacquainted, and which probably belongs 
to the next ; Wight! cat. n. 852 has them more straight, short, and thick, 
than usual, and the leaflets are broader and more glabrous than in his n. 853; 
but this may probably arise from cultivation. We have not sufficient mate- 
rials to enable us to determine if 7. Anil be a distinct species: we know of no 
distinguishing character unless it is to be found in the fruit ; and the descrip- 
tions given of that part in the two species differ in different authors.—See 
DC. prod. 2. p. 225, and Lam. enc. meth. 3. p. 244. 
634. (18) I. ecrulea (Roxb. :) shrubby, erect ; branches terete, closely co- 
vered with adpressed whitish pubescence : leaves pinnated ; leaflets 4—5-pairs, 
obovate, emarginate, the lower the smaller, the terminal largest ; upper sur- 
face glabrous ; under paler, covered with depressed hairs: racemes solitary, 
sessile, shorter than the leaves, many-flowered: flowers small, pretty close, 
the upper ones deciduous: calyx-segments short, acute : legumes terete, short, 
about 5 times as long as broad, deflecea and faleate upwards, approximated 
towards the base of the rachis, slightly torulose, 34-seeded.— Roa. / fl. Ind. 
3. p. 877 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 358; Wall.! L. n. 5460 ; Wight! cat. n. 851. 
—I. retusa, Graham ! in Wall.! L. n. 5476.—I. brachycarpa, Graham ! in 
Wall.! L. n. 5470.—1. tinctoria, & brachycarpa, DC.? prod 2. p. 224.—— 
Rajahmundry Circars. Dindygul hills. ; 
n We have not seen the seeds : Roxburgh says they are “ like those of tinc- 
oria.” 
635. (19) I. pulchella (Roxb. :) large erect shrub or small tree, young parts 
usually whitish with short adpressed hairs ; branches angled : leaves pinnated; 
leaflets 8-10-pairs, obovate or broad elliptic, emarginate, mucronate : racemes 
about the length of the leaves, sessile, many-flowered, springing from the 
of the leaves and from the former years’ leafless branches: flowers large, 
at first crowded, afterwards more distant: calyx-segments short and acute : 
petals many times longer than the calyx, patulous and resembling a bilabiate 
corolla: legumes scattered along the rachis, slightly deflexed, nearly cylin- 
cal, thick, straight, sharp-pointed, 10-12-seeded ; sutures callous, thick.— 
b. hort. Bengh. p. 57 ; fl. Ind. 3. p. 382 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 389; Wight! 
cat. n. 866. —]. purpurascens, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 383.—I. cassioides, Rottl. ; 
DC. prod. 2. p, 225 (char. not good) ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 276 (char. good) ; Wall. 
L. n. 5468, d.—]. verrucosa, Graham ! in Wall.! L. n. 5469.—1. glaucescens, 
am! in Wall.! L. n. 5484.—Leguminosa, Wall. ! L. n. 5979.——Neel- 
gherries. Dindygul hills. Circar hills. 
Of Wall. L. n. 5468, our friend Dr Graham is inclined to refer only the letter 
s to this plant: we have little doubt, however, that a, c, and perhaps b, are 
quite the same : at least such was our impression when we had the specimens 
before us, This is the only Peninsular species we know of with large blos- 
Soms: perhaps it and the other large flowered ones from Bengal, as F 
» Roxb., T. elliptica, Roxb. (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1991), en 
Roxb. (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1626), I. atropurpurea, Ham. (Roxb. in E. I. C. 
Mus. tab, 1627 ), and J. uncinata, Roxb., ought to form a distinct section. — 
§9. Leaves petioled, pinnated or pinnately trifoliolate: racemes sessile or — 
cled, elongated, many-flowered : pedicels very short : calyx-segments long an 
subulate : legumes linear, 4-angled from the valves being elevated and almost 
carinate along their middle, many times longer than broad, many-seeded.— 
Tetragonocarpe. : a 
636. (20) I. trita (Linn. :) herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, T d, pn rs 
less hoary from short adpressed pubescence : leaves pinnately trifoliate ; leaf- 
ets oval or oblong, mucronate: racemes sessile, about the length of the 
lon? many-flowered ; flowers small, upper ones deciduous: calyx-segments 
ong and subulate : legumes deflexed or horizontal, closely approximated at 
