;312 \Lviii. LKurMJXos.i;. 



as the calyx. Pods i in. loug, pubescent, angled, the angles slightly 

 winged and often toothed. Seeds 1-2, spherical, smooth and polished, 

 sometimes mottled. El. B. I. v. 2, p.',94 ; Dalz. & Gribs. p. 58 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 421 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 3S6. — Flowers : Aug.-Dec. Vern. Barbuda. 



A coinmou weed. Konkan : Stoc/isl; E'e|ilianta (Bombay), Sloc/iS'. Deccan : 

 Woodrow: Poona, Cooke I, Uuodrow I S. M. Countisy : Belgaum, Eitchie, lU.'iS I — 

 DisTRiB. India (W. Peninsula and Baudelkhand), 



6. Indigofera trigonelloides, Jauh. 4' Spach. Illustr. v. 5 (1857) 

 p. i)2, t. 482. Annual, densely silvery ; stems many, csespito-e, trading, 

 nnich-branched, 6-15 in. long, trigonous, clothed with appressed silvery 

 hairs and a lew spreading ones. Leaves 5-7-t'oliolate ; petioles y\-§ in. 

 long, hairy ; stipules linear, acute, hairy. Leaflets alternate, ^g by §- 

 -j^ in., oblanceolate or elliptic, rounded at the apex, densely clothed on 

 both sides witli silvery appressed hairs, base acute; petiolnles of the 

 lateral leaflets 0-jL in., those of the terminal leaflets ^ in. long. 

 Flowers in dense sessile villous heads, each consisting of 12-20 sessile 

 flowers ; bract minute, ovate-lanceolate, acute, hairy. Calyx §-• ^ in. long; 

 teeth long, linear, acute, hairy. Corolla red, scarcely exserted. Pods 

 \ in. long, linear-cylindric. straight, silvery-hairy, tornlose. Seeds 3-4. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 94 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1897) p. 421. 



Confined to Siud ; a rai-e plant. Sind: C'ooJcel, Woodrow \; Jemadar ka Landa 

 (near Karachi), Stocks]; Boogta hills, Vicaiyl; Karachi to Mugger Peer, Peyn/\ — 

 DisTRiB. India (Panjab) ; Afghanistan, Abyssinia, Aden. 



7. Indigofera enneaphylla, Linn. Mnniiss. v. 2 (1771) p. 571. 

 Animal or biennial ; rootstock Moody ; stems densely ca^spitose, 1-1 ^ ft. 

 long, trailing, prostrate but not rooting, much-branched, terete or some- 

 what angled, sparsely clothed with white appressed hair. Leaves |-| in. 

 long, 7-9- (rarely 11-) foliolate, nearly sessile; stipnles scarious, i-^ in. 

 lo)ig, ovate, long-cuspidate. Flowers small, in short-peduncled 10-20- 

 flowered spicate heads about | in. long ; pedicels almost ; bracts 

 scarious, j\j- in. long, ovate, acuminate, persistent. Calyx g— |- in. long, 

 hairy outside ; teeth lung, setaceous. Corolla bright red, slightly ex- 

 serted. Pods ^— g- in. long, cyliudric, oblong, more or less clothed with 

 white appressed hair. Seeds 2, globose. Fl. B. L v. 2, p. 94 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 58 : Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 22 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 421 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 385. /. semi- 

 trijiiga, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. p. 137 {not of Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. 

 B. I.). — Flowers: Oct. A^ern. BJitnr/iiJi. 



Konkan; Stocks I Deccan : Bijapur, Woodrow. S.M. Country: Badami, Woodrow], 

 Iihiva\ GiMARAT: Baroda, KanitKarl; S\ira,t, Dahell c^- Gibson.— Disrnm. Throughout 

 the plains of India; Ceylon, Angola, Mahvy Islands, N. Australia. 



8. Indigofera uniflora, Buch.-lfani. ex lio.vh. Ilort. Beng. (1814) 

 p. 57 : /'/. J 11(1. V. ;'). p. 37 I. Perennial ; stems lierbaceous, very slender, 

 much-branched, prostrate, terete, glabrous or with a few appressed hairs, 

 purple. Tiea\es sessile, .3-7- (rarely 1-) foliolate, usually digitate: 

 stipuh'S very minute, caducous. Leaflets ^-^ in. long, pale green, narrow- 

 linear, suhacnte and with a few appressed hairs. Flouers solitary, on 

 long filifurni pedicels which are longer than the leaves and equal in 

 length to the pods ; bracts on the pedicel a little below tlie flower, 



