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_ The present annual production of indigo is estimated as about 
_ 8,200 tons (valne £ 4,000,000), of which 6,100 tons are produced 
é, in India, 1,100 tons in America, and 1,000 tons in China and 
other countries. (Watts’ Dict. of Chem.) 
INDIGOFERA ASPALATHOIDES, Vahl. 
Fig. — Wight Ic., t. 332 ; Hook. Ic., t. 188. 
Hab.—Carnatic and Ceylon. The plant. 
Vernacular.—Shenevar-vaymbu (Tam.), Shiva-nimb (Mar.). 
History, Uses, &c.——This plant is the Manelli of Rheede 
(Hort. Mal. iz., 37) and the Aspalathus indicus of Ainslie. 
_ Rheede states that the plant, rubbed into a paste with butter, 
is applied to reduce cedematous tumours, and that a preparation 
made from the ashes of the burnt plant is used to remove 
dandriff from the hair; the leaves are applied to abscesses, and 
head in erysipelas, According to Ainslie, the leaves, flowers, 
d tender shoots are considered to be cooling, demulcent, and 
alterative, and are employed in decoction in leprosy and can- 
cerous affections. The root is chewed as a remedy for tooth- 
ache and aphthz of the mouth. 
. Description. —A low undershrub, with many spreading, 
Ee rigid, terete branches, and argenteo-canescent branchlets. 
_ Leaflets 1 to 5, pale green, with a few obscure adpressed hairs, 
oblong-Lanceolate, yz to } in. long, often complicate. Pedicels 
ecto-patent, ¢ to dinch. Corolla pale red. Pod straight, glab- 
rous, turgid, } to § in. long, 6 to 8seeded. (FI. Brit. Ind.) 
Indigofera paucifolia, Delile. Kuthekar, Summattee 
Tam.), is a rare shrub, the leaves of which are covered with a 
we pubescence. _Dr. iy 8. Mootooswamy informs us eats it 
inks plant is cut in small pieces ae sate r several 2 ce 
in the oven, and the resulting decoction is _ foment 
