32 PAPILIONACEiE 



Introduced on estates and now run wild near Coonoor (C. 

 Brown). 



Gen. Dist. Ilipialayas to Ceylon and Malacca. 



TRIFOLIUM. 



See Vol. I p. no. 



Trifolium dubium Sibth.\ Vol. I p. Ill, under name 

 T. minus Smith. 



Trifolium pratense Linn. ; F.B.L ii 86, X I. Red 



Clover. A perennial erect herb, over a foot high, 



stipules broad. Leaflets oblong, obscurely toothed 



Heads of flowers i inch diameter. Flowers very dense, 



red. Pod one-seeded. 



A common forage plant, introduced in the Nilgiris and now 

 run wild. [G.F.M.F.] 



INDIGOFERA. 



See Vol. I p. 112, and add : 



Indigofera cndccaphylla Jacq. ; F.B.I, ii 98, XVII 24. 

 An annual herb with trailing stems I to 2 feet long. 

 Leaves I to 3 inches, of 9 to 12 leaflets. Racemes up to 

 4 inches long, many flowered. Flowers small, purple. 

 Pod J4 to 1 inch. * 



Nilgiris, up to 6,000 feet. 



Ge7t. Dist. Hills of Deccan and Mysore, Western Ghats, Ccimbatore. 



Indigofera pulchclla Roxb.; Vol. I p. 113. Flowers 

 purplish pink, mostly before the leaves. The keel and 

 wings soon drop off and leave the reflexed standard 

 and the staminal tube and pistil. Pods v/hen ripe nearly 

 horizontal. Flowers in the spring, t. 312. 



PSORALEA. 



Psoralca pinnata Linn. ; Vol. I p. II4 and II t. 85. 



The name is confirmed in Gamblers FU^ Madras Pres. 



