Indiyofera.~] L. LEGUMINOSJ;. (J. G. Baker.) 93: 



Throughout India from the HIMAIAYAS to CEYLON, common. DISTRIB. Abyssinia, 

 Afghanistan, Malay Isles, N. Australia. 



Annual, the whole plant persistently silvery-hoary. Steals slender, copiously 

 branched both at the base and upwards, ^ 1 ft. Leaves simple, subsessile, i 1 in. 

 long, typically linear, acute, but varying (var. Campbellii, Wight) to obovate, obtuse- 

 withamucro; stipules minute, setaceous. Flowers 6-12 in copious dense subsessile 

 racemes. Calyx ~ in., silvery ; teeth long, linear-setaceous. Corolla bright red, 2-3 

 times the calyx. Pod hard, mucronate, silvery, under ~ in. thick. 



STJBGEX. 3. Euindig'ofera, Benth. Ovary ' with at least 2 ovules,jusually 

 with many. Pod linear or oblong, unarmed, turgid. 



Group 1. Simplicifdice. Leaves simple (in Sp. 6 casually 3-folioliate.) 



3. X. cordifolia 5 IIeyne\ DC. Prodr. ii. 222; herbaceous, loosely pubes- 

 cent, leaves subsessile cordate-ovate, flowers in dense sessile heatls, pod oblono- 

 2-seeded. W. 8f A. Prodr. 199 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 58. Heylandia ? coi" 

 difolia, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5343. 



Plains throughout India proper, ascending to 4000 ft. in the Chenab valley. 

 DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Beloochistan, Nubia, Malay Isles, N.Australia. 



A copiously branched diffuse annual with stems ^ ^ ft. long. Leaves subobtuse with 

 a mucro, flexuous, -f in. long, obscurely downy above, densely below ; stipules setace- 

 ous, minute. Heads copious, 4-8-flowered. Calyx in. densely downy ; teeth long^. 

 setaceous. Corolla bright red, not exserted. Pod under 5- in. long, pubescent, casually 

 1- seeded. 



4. X. triquetra, Dalz. in Hook. Keio Journ. ii. 36; herbaceous, thinly 

 argenteo-canescent, leaves subsessile oblong, flowers 612 in small peduncled 

 racemes, pod linear 4-6-seeded. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 58. 



Plains of CONCAN, Dalzell, StocJcs. 



Perennial, greenish in shade, obscurely silvery in exposure. Stems very flexuous, 

 trailing, 1 ft. or less long, slender, acutely triquetrous. Leaves firm, -f in. long, nar- 

 rowed or slightly rounded at both ends ; stipules setaceous, persistent. Racemes short- 

 rduncled, finally an inch long. Calyx ~ in., canescent ; teeth long, setaceous. Corolla 

 in., bright red. Pod ^-f in. long, turgid, glabrous, the flattened sutures margined 

 by acute keels. 



5. X. caloneura, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 42, 2, 229 ; shrubby, 

 fulvo-puberulous, leaves small petioled elliptical with veins beneath much raised, 

 racemes short close, pods unknown. 



PEGTT, Kurz. 



An erect branched shrub. Leaves 55- in., rounded to both ends, mucronulate, char- 

 taceous, glabrous above, glaucescent and softly pubescent below ; petiole as long as 

 blade ; stipules minute, linear-subulate. Racemes usually shorter than leaves ; pe- 

 duncle % in.; bracts subulate, moderately long. Calyx broad, short. Corolla in., 

 probably rose. Ovary densely silky. 



6. X. Krunoniana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5491 ; shrubby, argenteo-ca- 

 nescent, leaves large petioled oblong, racemes close elongated, pods cylindrical 

 many-seeded. Watt. PL As. Ear. t. 279. 



BIRMA, Mount Prome, Wallich. 



Branches long, virgate, terete, slender. Leaves oblong, casually 3-foliolate, firm, 

 conspicuously veined below, 3-5 in. long, obtuse or subacute ; stipules deciduous ; 

 petioles 3^ in. Racemes short-pedunclec 1 , copious, reaching 4-5 in. long. Calyx 

 oblique, argenteo-canescent, in. long ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla in., bright red ; 

 standard thinly canescent. Pod turgid, 2 in. long, thinly canescent, recurved at the tip. 



Group 2. Scssili/lorce. Leaves odd-pinnate. Floivers in dense sessile or 

 short-peduncled heads. Pods short, few-seeded. 



