372 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Indigofera. 



A native of various parts of India. In flower all llie year. 

 It grows rather tall in a good soil, but is thin of branches, and 

 rather a hostile looking plant, when growing in a bad soil. 



JVote. This is the only species I can compare to I. trifoli- 

 ata, and as I have reared it from seods received from Dr. 

 Klein of Tranquebar, under that name, am inclined to think 

 they are the same. 



5. I. c'merea. Willd. iii. 1225. 



Shrubby, hoary. Zeares ternate ; /ea/fefs oblong, acute, 

 hoary. Racemes axillary, sub-sessile. Legumes horizontal, 

 four-sided, with sharp thorny points. 



Teling, Veri neelli, 



A thin, poor looking, shrubby species, grows on dry un- 

 rulti\ ated ground often on road sides. Flowers during the 

 wet and cold seasons. 



Stem short, Avoody. Branches numerous, bent in every 

 direction, very rigid, covered with hoary bark ; the plant in 

 general about two or three feet high. Leaves scattered, ter- 

 nate, petioled. Leaflets oblong, or broad lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, a very little hairy, and hoary, smaller than in any 

 other of this family that I know, T. aspalathifolia excepted. 

 Petioles channelled. Stipules subulate. Racemes axillary, 

 sub-sei^sile, the length of the leaves. Flowers small, red. 

 Leginnes horizontal, four-sided, very sharp pointed, from six 

 to seven-seeded ; seeds remote. 



JSi^ote. It seems to agree better with the description of J. 

 irita, in the Supplement of Linnaeus, than trita itself. Can 

 there be any mistake? This species is immediately distin- 

 guished from that, by being much more branchy, very white 

 or hoary, and by the form of the leaflets, which in that are 

 obovate, and emarginate;in this broad-Ianceolar, and acute. 



6. I. glandulosa. Willd. iii. 1227. 



SufFrutex, diffuse. Leaves ternate ; leaflets somewhat 



