880 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Itldigojeva. 



Aineri. li/ieed. Mai. i. t. 54. 



Indicuii). Rumph. Amh. v. t. 80. 



Native place uncertain, for though now common in a wild 

 state over most parts of India, yet is in genera! 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. I. eUiptica. 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 each end, and all nearly equal ; smooth on both 

 sides; about an inch long, by half of an inch broad, and 

 generally deciduous during 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-seeded. 



