78 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



and heals the sick; one acre of it will keep three horses the whole 

 year." 



(c) GALEGEJE. 



6. CYAMOPSIS. 



C. psordloides. Erect, robust, leaflets 3 ovate, acute, dentate, 

 flowers very small and numerous in racemes, purple, blue, or 

 white, pod warty, about 6-seeded. Gauri, matki. 



Cultivated for the pods, which are eaten, cooked like French 

 beans. A doubtful native. 



7. INDIGOFERA. Indigo. 



Note. This is an unattractive genus. Most of the species are more 

 or less covered with close-pressed hairs. The flowers of all here 

 given, when not otherwise specified, are red or reddish-purple, and 

 in racemes. H. has 40 species. 



1. I. linifolia. A grey prostrate plant, much-branched, 

 hairs silvery, leaves lanceolate or linear, varying to obovate, 

 racemes very short, pod round one-seeded. Burburra, bhdngra, 

 torJci. 



Deccan, Cutch, and elsewhere, common. The fruit outwardly is 

 not the least like a pod. The seeds are eaten. 



2. I. cordifolia. Of the same habit as the last, hairs long 

 and white, leaves broad ovate, cordate ; flowers very small in 

 sessile heads, pod oval, 2-seeded. Godddi, bechaJca, bodaga. 



Deccan and Konkan, and probably elsewhere, often growing in 

 masses. The seeds are eaten. 



Two other simple-leaved species, both very small and procumbent, 

 are * I. echinata, branches angular, leaves obovate, pod crescent- 

 shaped, bristled, beaked, seed one, kidney- shaped. Very common 

 (D.), but no hab. * I. triquetra, stem 3-edged, leaves oblong, pod 

 swollen, linear 4-winged. Malwan district (D.). 



3. /. glandulosa. A small diffuse species, leaflets 3, ovate or 

 obovate, deeply pitted with glands beneath, pod brown or 

 reddish, very short, angled and with toothed wings, seeds 1 to 

 4. Bekhariyo, baragadan. 



The Deccan and elsewhere. On black soil it becomes woody and 

 much branched. 



4. /. enneaphylla. Small, branched and trailing, leaflets 

 about 9, obovate or oblong, pod oval, 2-seeded. Bliuiguli. 



Deccan, Guzerat, and Cutch. This and No. 2 grow together on 

 the maidan at Poona ; this is the stouter of the two. 



5. I. trita. A small undershrub, stiff-branched, leaflets 3, 

 ovate or obovate, flowers crowded ; pod long, straight, rigid, 



