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* * Calyx tooihcd, the teeth short, more or less acute. Corolla at least 3 times as 

 long as the calyx and usually much longer. More or less woody shrubs. 

 X Leaies simple or 3-foliolate {often on the same plant). 

 I. Bkhn'oniana, Grab. Pigu. 



"Whole plant sreyish from minute appressed stiff hairs. Leaves 1 -3-foliolate on 

 the same plant. Stipules very minute. 



I. CALONEtTRA, KurZ. PcgU. 



Softly tawny pubescent. Leaves 1-foliolate. Stipules about 2 lines long. 



X X Leaves unpaired pinnate. * 



° Puds H-2 inches lony, more or less A-gonous. Seeds cubical or ^-cornered. 



I. GALLEGoiDEs, DC. Pegu and Tenasserim up to 40U0 feet. 



/. uncinata, Roxb. 

 /. Zollingeriana, Miq. 



Stipules 2-3 lines long. Pods minutely appressed pubescent. 



I. PCXCHELLA, Eoxb. Ava and Pegu. 



/. arborea, Eoxb. 



Stipules minute. Pods glabrous. 



° ° Pods about an inch long, terete. Seeds cylindrical. 



I. vioLACEA, Roxb. Pegu and Tenasserim. 



Differs fi'om the above in the pod and the cylindrically oblong pale-coloured 

 seeds. It is in my eyes nearer akin to /. cllipfica, from which it de's-iatcs only in 

 the size and colour of the seeds. 



I. ELLiPTicA, Roxb. 



Pods glabrous. Stipules minute. 



Indigo is produced by various species of Indignfera, but mainly by /. tincforia.^ 



° ° Anthers blunt. Hairs basijixed. 



Sesbakia, Persoon. 



Style not bearded, the stigma minute. Flowers in axillary racemes. Leaves 

 pinnate. Herbs or under shrubs, rarely trees. 



Sub-genus Agati, Desv. 



Flowers 2-3 inches long, falcately recurved in bud, the standard acute or bluntish. 



* S. GEAXDiELORA, Roxb. Cultivated all over Burma. 

 Poulc-hpyu. 



Small glabrous tree. Flowers showy, white or scarlet. 



Sub-genus Ec-sesbania, Bth. 



Flowers less than an inch long, straight in bud, yellow or brown-purple, the 

 standard broad, more or less notched. 



* Racemes drooping from the base. Small trees. 



* S. SESBAN, L. Cultivated all over Burma. 



S. .^gyptiaca, Pcrs. 



S. picta, Pers. 

 Te-thu-gyi. 

 Glabrous. Pods 1 '-2 lines broad, somewhat angular from the prominent sutures. 



** Racemes erect from the base, but often overhanging. Shrubby annuals. 

 S. POLTrnTiLA, Miq. Grassy pastures along the Koladyne River. 



' Fur ii full history of tla- devulopmcut of the ludigo trade, consult Balfour's Cyclopedia of ludia. 



