102 L. LEGUMmos^E. (J. G. Baker.) [Indigofera. 



coated -with short adpressed grey hairs. Racemes short-peduncled, moderately close, 

 1-3 in. long ; pedicels short ; bracts exceeding the buds, usually boat-shaped with a 

 cusp. ' Calyx in. long, argenteo-canescent ; teeth short deltoid. Corolla bright 

 red, glabrous externally, the largest of all the species, generally f-i in., reaching 

 3-1 in. long, the standard f in. broad, reflexed in the expanded flower. Pod straight, 

 turgid, glabrous, lj-lf in. long, 8-12-seeded, the sutures broader than in the 

 preceding. """ 



38. I. Dosua, Hamilt. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 225 ; shrubby, branches densely 

 pubescent, leaflets small linear-oblong 1 21-31, stipellse abortive, bracts exceeding 

 the buds. Don Prodr. 244 ; Wall Cat. 5481 A, non B, nee Sot. Req. 28, t. 57. 

 I. heterantha, Wall. Cat. 5480 C, ex parte. I. virgata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 383? 



TEMPERATE CENTRAL and EAST HIMALAYAS; Simla to Bhotan and ASSAM, 

 6-8000 ft. 



A low shrub, with woody branches, clothed with short spreading grey or 

 brownish pubescence. Leaves subsessile, 1-3 in. long; leaflets usually opposite, mem- 

 branous, obtuse, | in. long, dull green above, glaucous below, more or less densely 

 pubescent. Racemes distinctly peduncled, moderately close, 1-3 in. long ; bracts in. 

 long, lanceolate-cuspidate, silky ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ i n ., densely silky ; 

 teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla bright red, glabrous, |-|- in. Pod straight, glabrescent, 

 l-l^ in. long, 8-12-seeded, with very broad sutures. 



VAR. tomentosi ; branches clothed with dense brown silky pubescence, leaves 

 6-9 in. long, leaflets 41-^51 often subactite and 1 in. long, racemes longer, bracts 

 densely brown-velvety, with a very long") cusp. I. tomentosa, Grah. in Wall. 

 Cat. 5487. I. stachyodes, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 14. Khasia, Sikkim, Silhet, 

 Bhotan, 1-5000 ft. 



Group 6. Paniculatce. Leaves odd-pinnate. Floivers inpanicled racemes. 



39. I. mysorensis, Rottl. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 222 ; Wall Cat. 5459 ; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 202. I. polyphylla, Heyne MSS., non. DC. 



Plains of the CARNATIC, Heyne. 



A low erect copiously-branched shrub, the young stems slender, clothed with 

 short spreading grey pubescence. Leaves sessile, of the main branches 1-3 in. long ; 

 leaflets 11-21, oblong, membranous, opposite, f-i in. long, thinly clothed on both 

 sides with adpressed grey hairs ; stipules setaceous, in., persistent. Racemes lax, 

 elong%ted, more or less panicled, each flower subtended by a bract just like the leaflets, 

 and the branches furnished low down with 3-5-foliolate leaves. Calyx in. ; teeth 

 lanceolate, very long. Corolla red, glabrous, twice the calyx. Pod linear-cylindrical, 

 straight, -f in. long, 4-C-seeded, finely pubescent. 



. 4. Amecarpus, Benth. Ovary with at least two ovules. 

 Pod linear, unarmed, flattened. 



40. X. anabaptist a, Steud. Norn. edit. 2, 805. I. Hochstetteri, Baker 

 in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Africa, ii. 101. I. ornithopodioides, Hochst. et Steud. in 

 ScJiimp. Hb. Arab. No. 769; Jaub. et Spach HI. PL Orient, t. 480; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, ii. 188, non Schum. et Thonn. 



Plains of SCIXDE and the PUXJAE. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Arabia, Nile-country. 



A diffuse annual, with stems 1 ft. or more long, thinly clothed with adpressed 

 white hairs. Leaves short-petioled ; leaflets 3-7, opposite, oblanceolate ^-1 in. long. 

 Racemes short-peduncled, closely 12-20 -flowered, under an inch long. Calyx ^ in., 

 argenteo-canescent ; teeth setaceous. Corolla scarcely exserted. Pod linear, reflexed, 

 -| in. long, 6-8 -seeded. 



