306 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Indigofera, 



Eacemes short with densely packed shortly pedicellate 

 flowers ; pods deflexed : 



Plants densely clothed with short spreading brownish 

 hairs; pod cylindric, -3-'4 in. long, '1 in. thick, not 

 torulose ; racemes short, scarcely tip to 4 in. long 



9. vestita. 



Plants with sparse appressed brownish pubescence ; 

 racemes very short : 



Pods somewhat stout, '4-'5 in. long, *1 in. thick, 

 narrowly winged on both sides of the sutures, not 

 torulose, about 4-6- seeded; leaflets oblanceolate 

 emarginate, the end one almost or quite sessile 



10. trifoliata. 



Pods very slender, *6 in. long, under '05 in. thick, 

 very faintly winged at the sides of the sutures, 

 slightly torulose, about 8- seeded; leaflets obovate, 

 obtuse or acute, apiculate, the end one very shortly 



petiolulate 11. prostrata. 



Plants with white appressed pubescence ; end leaflets 

 petiolulate : 



Pods '0--6 in. long, brown, with appressed white 

 pubescence, torulose, the sharp apex upcurved, 

 seeds 2-4 ; leaflets membranous, obovate, mucronate, 

 sparsely villous, glands prominent ; racemes up to 



4 in. long 12. Barberi. 



Pods about 1 in. long, tetragonous, appressed grey- 

 pubescent, not torulose, the sharp apex straight, seeds 

 6-10 ; leaflets thick, obovate, obtuse, much appressed 

 pubescent, no glands ; racemes up to 1 in. long, usually 



less, the upper flowers not fertile 13. trita. 



Leaflets 1-4 rarely 5, alternate, densely covered, as the 

 branches and inflorescence, with white appressed hairs; 

 racemes many-flowered, elongate, up to 4 in. long; pods 

 slender, deflexed and then curved upwards, torulose, 6-8- 



seeded 14. oblongifolia. 



Leaflets 5, sometimes 7, thin, the side ones opposite ; racemes 

 slender, pods not torulose : 



Leaflets obovate, obtuse, '5 rarely *7 in. long, stipules 

 lanceolate ; racemes slender, 2-5-flowered, under 2 in. long ; 

 pods spreading, subcylindric, smooth, slender, '75 in. long, 



10-12-seeded 15. glabra. 



Leaflets elliptic obovate, usually acute, up to 1 in. or even 



