XLVIIT. J>EGUMINOS.E. 3ll 



3. Indigofera cordifolia, Heyne, ex Roth. Nov. PI. S^>. (1821) 

 p. 3-57. A difFuse copiously branched annual, usually more or less 

 clothed with long white hairs ; stems 3-9 in. long, the young ones 

 pubescent, the older nearly glabrous. Leaves simple, |-f by ^-| in., 

 subsessile, broadly ovate-cordate, subobtiise, mucronate, hairy on both 

 sides, very densely so beneath ; stipules minute, setaceous. Flowers in 

 dense subsessile 4-8-tlowered heads. Calyx g in. long, hairy outside; 

 tube very short ; teeth linear, acute, ^'ery hairy. Corolla bright red, not 

 exserted ; standard spathulate. Pods cylindric, oblong, straight, | in, 

 long (including the straight beak), densely pubescent. Seeds 2, yellow. 

 Y\. B. I. V. 2, p. 93; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 58 ; Aiteh. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 40 ; 

 Woodr. ill Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1897) p. 421 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 4, p. 385. — Flowers : Aug.-Dec. Vern. Godadi ; Bechka. 



Common. Kon'kax : Law !, S(ocis I ; Oorun, Sfoe/,-s I Deccan : Poona, JVoodrow !, 

 Cooke I S. M. Country : Paclshapnr, Bitrhir, lf!92 ! ; Barlami, Cooke ! Sind : 

 Woodrotu; Karachi, -S'/oc/.-.sl—DisTuin. Tiirougliout India; Afghanistan, Boluchistan, 

 X. Australia. 



4. Indigofera Dalzellii^ T. Cool-e. Perennial, more or less silvery- 

 canescent ; stems many from a woody root, prostrate, ascending at the 

 apex, flexuous, acutely triquetrous. Leaves simple, subsessile, ^-| by 

 -j2g— I in., elliptic-oblong, subacute, mucronate, glabrous above, hairy 

 beneath, base acute ; stipules subulate from a triangular base, persistent. 

 Flowers in axillary 12-20-flowered racemes \\ hich are 3 to 4 times as 

 long as the leaves ; rhachis acutely triquetrous, glabrous ; pedicels 

 deflexed in fruit ; bracts minute, ovate, acuminate. Calyx -^q-^- in. 

 long ; tube scarcely any ; teeth triangular, very acute. Corolla purple, 

 twice as long as the calyx ; standard orbicular, hairy on the back. Pods 

 2~| ^y uT ^^^•' -i'l^^^^N 4-gonous, beaked, glabrous, shortly 4-winged. 

 Seeds 4-6. Indir/ofera triquetra, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Joiirn, v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 36; Fl. B. 1. v.'2, p. 93; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 58 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 421.— Flowers : July-Sept. 



The name /. triquctra was given to a wholly different species (a 

 S. African plant) by E. Meyer in 1830 (Comm. p. 95), and, as Dalzell 

 named his species in 1850, the other has priority. — I have therefore 

 named tliis /. Dahellu. 



A rare plant, apparently endemic in the Bombay Presidency. Konkan : Stocksl; 

 rocky hills in the Malwan district, Dalzell lJ- Gibson. Deccan : Panchgani, JVoodrow !, 

 Cooke I, liaoji ! 



The plant is abinidant on the rocky table-laud above the trareller's bungalow at 

 Panchgani, where it grows all over the bare rocks. Dalzell found it growing on I'ocks 

 near Malwan, so that it apparently flourishes on rocky ground. 



5. Indigofera glandulosa, Willd. Sji. PI. v. 3 (1800) p. 1227. 

 Annual, 9-20 in. high, much-branched; branches long, slender, clothed 

 with spreading hairs when young, not at all argenteo-canescent. Leaves 

 3-foliolate ; petioles |-g in. long, slender, hairy ; stipules setaceous, 

 minute. Leaflets |-1 by \-^ in., oblanceolate, rounded or slightly 

 retuse, apiculate, green and with a few appressed hairs above, glaucous, 

 appressedly hairy and copiously nigro-punctate beneath ; petiolules of 

 the lateral leaflets -jro-yV ^^- ^ong, those of the terminal leaflets, longer. 

 Flowers in short axillary sessile heads -^g in. long. Calyx -^-jt i"- 

 long, hairy outside; teeth long, setaceous. Corolla 2-3 times as long 



