I'xoralea.'] LEG UM I NOVAE. 313 



28. INDIGOFERA WIGHTII, Grah. ; F. B. I. ii. 99; W. & A. 202. 



Madgol Hills of Vizagapatam, 4,500 ft. (A. W. Lushington) ; 



Deccan Hills in Mysore, Coimbatore and Salein ; W. Ghats, 



up to 4,000 ft., in iSTilgiris, Anamalais and Pulneys. 



A stiff silvery shrub with small leaflets and yellowish-red 



flowers. 



29. INDIGOFERA GALEGOIDES, DC.; F. B. I. ii. ]oo. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats, Malabar to Travancore, up to 



2,000 ft. 



A tall shrub with pale red flowers and very long-beaked 



pods. 



30. INDIGOFERA PULCHELLA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 101 ; W. & A. 

 203 ; Wt. Ic. t. 3<I7. 



Hills of N. Circars, Deccan and W. Ghats, up to r,,i.MM) ft., 



in dry forests. 



A large shrub with handsome purple-red flowers, reaching 



ft. in height. Vern. Ur. Girili ; Tel. Sinilli ; Tarn. 



Xarinci. 



31. INDIGOFERA MYSORENSIS, Rottl.; F. B. I. ii. 102; W. & A. 

 202. 



Hills of the Deccan in Chingleput and Mysore, up to 

 4,000 ft. ; W. Ghats, on dry Nilgiri slopes, but scarce. 

 An erect much-branched, softly grey-pubescent shrub with 

 red flowers and small cylindric pods. The leafy bracts 

 make it appear as if the flowers were solitary in the leaf- 

 rixils. Vern. Tel. Bapanga. 



I found Indigofera anabapttsta, Steud. ; F. B. I. ii. 102 in the 

 Fort at Bellary. It had probably come from a seed casually 

 imported from Sind or Arabia. 



9. Psoralea, Lind. 



Herbs or undershrubs, punctate with black or pellucid glands. 

 Leaves unifoliolate or imparipinnate, often dentate, stipulate. 

 Flowers capitate spicate subracemose or fascicled, rarely solitary, 

 in the axils of reduced floral leaves ; bracts membranous, often 

 with 2-3 flowers each ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tiihe campanulate, 

 lobes subequal or the lowest the longest, the 2 upper often connate. 

 Corolla little exserted ; standard ovate or orbicular, clawed ; 

 wings oblong, falcate ; keel petals obtuse, slightly connate. 

 Mamens diadelphous or the vexillary filament sometimes connate 



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