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short-petioled, pinnated; leaflets about 4-pair, cuneate oblong, 

 sprinkled on both sides with whitish hairs ; peduncles longer than 

 the leaves, with a few subsessile flowers towards the apex ; legume 

 compressed pointed, slightly torulose, sutures thickened. At 

 Unklesvvur, near Broach. W. and A. Prod, p 200. 



10. TRIFOLIATA, Linn. Amoen. iv, 327. Suffruticose branched; 

 branches slender diffuse, ascending ; leaves long-petioled, palmate- 

 ly trifoliolate ; leaflets cuneate obovate, pubescent on both sides, 

 glandular beneath ; racemes sessile very short, dense, many-flower- 

 ed ; flowers minute ; legumes straight deflexed, sub-compressed, 

 torulose, with a prominent nerve on each side of the sutures. At 

 Domus. DC. Prod. 2, 223 ; Syn. I prostrata, Willd. sp. iii, 1226; 

 DC. loc. cit. 233; Roxb. Fl Iiid. iii, 373 ; I leschenaultii, DC. loc. 

 cit. 223 ; I multicaulis DC. loc. cit. 



11. PAUCIFOLIA, Delile. Fl d'Egypt, p 107, t. 37, /. 22. 

 Shrubby, erect-branched, hoary and glaucous; leaves pinnated; 

 leaflets 1 to 5, alternate, oblong lanceolate ; racemes solitary, sessile, 

 longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; legumes linear, slightly 

 compressed, torulose, pendulous and curved upwards, 5 to 8-seed- 

 ed. Surat and throughout Guzerat. DC. Prod. 2, 224 ; Syn. I 

 argentea, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 374; Bremontiera animoxylon; B 

 burmanni. DC. Prod. 2, 353. 



12. WIGHTII, Graham in Wall, list 5458. Suffruticose, erect- 

 branched, hoary, with adpressed silky hairs ; leaves pinnated ; 

 leaflets 5 to 10 pair, small, oblong oval, slightly retuse mucronate; 

 racemes short, many-flowered ; flowers small ; legumes few, erect, 

 cylindrical, stout, straight, sharp-pointed, 10 to 12-seeded ; seeds 

 cylindric. At Belgaum. 



13. TINCTORIA, Linn. sp. PI 1501. Suffruticose erect; leaves 

 pinnated ; leaflets 5 to 6 pair, oblong obovate, cuneate at the base ; 

 racemes shorter than the leaves, sessile, many- flowered ; legumes 

 approximated towards the base of the rachis, nearly cylindrical, 

 slightly torulose, deflexed and curved upwards ; seeds J.O, cylindrical, 

 truncated. DC. Prod. 2, 224 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 379 ; Syn. I 

 indica, Lam. Encycl. Meth. iii, 245. Found apparently wild in 

 many parts of the Concan. This is the Indigo plant ; the " Neel" 

 of the natives. 



14. CQERULEA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 377. Shrubby erect, closely 

 covered with whitish pubescence ; leaflets 4 to 5 pair, obovate 

 emarginate, terminal largest ; racemes solitary, sessile, short ; flowers 

 small; legumes terete, short, five times as long as broad, deflexed, 

 and curved upwards, slightly torulose, 3 to 4-seeded. The wild 

 original of the preceding ? In hedges at Dhej, Broach Collectorate. 

 Roxburgh says he has extracted a finer indigo from the preceding. 

 Syn. I tinctoria ; B brachycarpa. DC. Prod. 2, 224. 



