96 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) [Indigofera. 



Group 5. TinctoricB. Leaves odd-pinnate. Racemes many-flowered, usually 

 peduncled. Pods linear, usually many-seeded. 



* Leaflets 3-5. 



1C. 2. trifoliata, Linn. ; DC. Prodr.il 223; suflruticose, branches and 

 membranous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed hairs, racemes sessile con- 

 gested, leaflets 3 ^j3n<JLjme sessile, pod straight glabrescent 6-8-seeded, 



W % . $ A. Prodr. 201 ; Wight JV iU'4 ; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 59. I. pro- 

 strata, Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 233 ; Roxb. Sort. Bena. 98 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 373. 

 I. moluccana, DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. multicaulis, DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. canes- 

 cens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5448. I. peregrina, DC. Prodr. ii. 224. I. orixensis, 

 Ro.rb. MSS. I. adenophylla, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5462. I. congesta, Grah. in 



Wall. Cat. 5471. 



HIMALAYAS (ascending to 4000 ft. in Kumaon) to CEYLON, TENASSERIM, Heifer. 

 DISTRIB. Java, China, Philippines, North Australia. 



Perennial. Stems copiously branched, trailing or ,suberect, 1-2 ft. long, soon 

 glabrescent. Stipules minute, setaceous ; petiole shorter than the leaflets, which are- 

 ahvays 3, digitate, oblanceolate, ^-1 in. long, grey-green above, glaucous below with 

 black dots. Racemes 6-1 2-flowered, usually shorter than the petiole. Calyx in. ; 

 teeth long, setaceous. Corolla red, 34 times the calyx. Pod deflexed, i in. long, 

 the sutures acutely bordered, the valves not torulose. 



17. I. vestita, Baker] suftruticose, branches and leaves densely pubes- 

 cent, leaflets 3 the end, one sessile, racemes sessile congested, pod straight 

 pubescent many-seeded. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Pulney hills, Wight. 



Closely allied to the preceding, differing mainly in pubescence. Branches very 

 slender, densely csespitose, under a foot long, ascending, clothed like the petioles, and 

 leaves with short spreading soft brownish hairs. Petiole -f in. ; leaflets crowded, 

 obovate, soft, thick, obtuse, -|-| in. long. Racemes as in I. trifoliata. Calyx densely 

 pubescent, teeth 'setaceous, "plumose. -Pod clothed with brown pubescence like that 

 of the branches. 



1.& X. trita, Linn.jil. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232 ; suffruticose, branches and mem- 

 branous leaves lliiuly clothed with adpressed grey hairs, leaflets 3 obovate the 

 end one stalked, racemes congested; pod , straight tetragonous 6-10-seeded not 

 torulose. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 371 ; Don Prodr. 245 ; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 16; W. $ A. Prodr. 204; Wall. Cat. 5449; Wight ,Ic. t. 315, 386; Da'lz. 

 $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 60. I. cinerea, Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. timoriensis, 

 Wittd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. canescens, Lamk..\ DC. Prodr. 224, non Wall. 

 I. hedysaroides, Laink. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. arcuata, Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 232. I. rigida, Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 224. I. armata, Wall. Cat. 5453. 

 I. argentea, Wall. Cat. 5455, in part. I. Lescheuaultii, DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. 

 ternata, Roxb. MSS. I. virgata, DC. Prodr. ii. 224, non Roxb. 



Plains of India from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON ; BIRMA. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa,. 

 Malay isles, North Australia. 



An undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, with firm slender branches, soon glabrescent. Stipules 

 minute, setaceous ; petiole ^ J in. ; leaflets always 3, the end one 1-1^- in. long, tho 

 side ones opposite. Racemes 6-1 2-flowered, usually sessile, seldom over an inch long. 

 Calyx ~-^ in., white-can escent; teeth long, setaceous. Corolla piirplish-recl, twice the 

 calyx. Pod deflexed, f-1^- in. long, the firm glabrescent valves obtusely keeled. 



19. X. subulata, Valil ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232 ; sunruticose, branches and 

 membranous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs, leaflets 5 obovate- 

 the side ones opposite, racemes elongated, pod long recurved 10-15-seeded not 



