308 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Indigofera. 



Pods stout, over -1 in. thick, obtuse at apex with 

 a small mucro, slightly torulose, 8-10-seeded ; 

 racemes usually longer than the leaves 



24. sumatrana. 



Pods stout, -5-'75 in. long, about '1 in. thick, 

 nearly straight, shortly mucronate, not torulose, 

 about 6-seeded ; racemes slender, up to 7 in. long 



25. longeracemosa. 

 Pods more or less tetragonous : 



Pods straight, imbricately deflexed, densely clothed 

 with soft spreading hairs, '5 to '75 in. long, seeds 

 6-8 ; racemes densely-flowered, 2-6 in. long, pedicels 



very short ; leaflets rather large 26. Jiirsuta. 



Pods linear, curved, much constricted between the 

 elongate joints, 1*5-2 in. or more long; slightly 

 appressed silky ; racemes slender, about 2 in. long, 

 buds canescent; leaflets 7-11, elliptic oblong, 

 slightly appressed-pubescent, up to 1 in. long 



27. constricta. 



Leaflets usually more than 13, occasionally less ; flowers 

 *3 in. long or longer : 



Flowers *3 in. long; stiff shrubs with appressed silvery 

 pubescence; branches striated; leaflets elliptic-oblong or 

 -obovate, emarginate or mucronate, coriaceous, '25-'75 in. 

 long; pods straight, cylindric, acuminate, 1-1*5 in. long, 



grey-pubescent, 8-12-seeded 28. Wightii. 



Flowers over *3 in. long ; shrubs nearly glabrous, not silvery 

 pubescent ; pods glabrous : 



Pods up to 3 in. long, straight, prominently beaked; 

 flowers '4- '5 in. long; leaflets elliptic-oblong, membra- 

 nous, up to 1 in. long 29. galeyoides. 



Pods up to 2 in. long, straight, shortly beaked ; 

 flowers -4-7 in. long ; leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse 

 or emarginate, apiciilate, subcoriaceous, up to 1 in. 



long 30. pulchella. 



Flowers in panicled bracteate racemes, the bracts leaflet (1-3)- 

 like, stipulate, the true leaves sessile with up to 10 pairs of 

 opposite elliptic- oblong softly pubescent side leaflets, each 

 25-'5 in. long ; pod cylindric, pubescent, '3-'5 in. long, 3-4-seeded 



31. mysorensis. 



1. INDIGOFERA ECHINATA, Willd. ; F. B. I. ii. 92; W. & A. 

 198 ; Wt. Ic. t. 316. 



