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with apex caudate-acuminate and emarginate, base of terminal equally of others slightly 
unequally cuneate, margin entire, firmly subcoriaceous, puberulous above along the 
somewhat impressed midrib elsewhere quite glabrous, secondary nerves about six pairs, 
slender but distinct, ascending and looped within margin, intermediate reticulations fine 
but distinct, especially beneath ; rachis about 8 em. long, puberulous as are the petiolules 
4 mm, long; flowers in short axillary racemes or congested panicles, 4—5 cm. long, 
bracts minute, pedicels 10—12 mm. long; calyx rounded at base, lobes 5, oblong, 
acute, valvate, reflexed іп fruit, 6 mm. long, 2°5 mm. wide; petals not seen; stamens 
10, alternately short and long, hardly connate at base; carpels 5 sessile, style somewhat 
elongated, puberulous, slightly excentric ; capsules 1—3 in each flower, sessile, ovoid, 
slightly apiculate, dull-brown outside, pale-tawny within, glabrous both outside and 
inside, 1°5 em, long, 1 cm. wide; seed single, oblong, the lower half enclosed within 
an adnate aril, 12 mm. long, 7 mm. wide, testa claret-red, shining. 
Каснік Hints: СасиНа Garden Collector ! 
This plant much resembles the only other known species, Taniochlena Grifithi 
Hook. f, from Malacca, but that species has differently shaped leaflets and a capsule 
pubescent externally. 
Prate 26,—Teeniochlena birmannica Prain. 1, twig with flowers and fruits, ——of natural size; 2, 
flower x 2; 8, the same, calyx-lobes detached x 2; 4, stamens x 4; 5, ovary x 4; 6, the same, cut open 
x 4; 7, ovule x 4; 8, fruit,—of natural size; 9, capsule cut open, showing seed in situ,—of natural size ; 
10, seed, cut vertically,—-of natural size. 
БОЕ. 
PLATE 97, 
27. INDIGOFERA SQUALIDA Prain in Journ, Аз. Soc, Beng, lxvi, 2, 355 (1897). 
Natural order Leguminose, | 
An undershrub, 1-5-3 feet high, branching only near the base, persistently sparsely 
adpressed grey-pubescent ; leaves simple, sessile or subsessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse, stipules linear, subulate, petiole *5—2 mm. long, lamina chartaceous, 
4—5 сш. long, 2 cm. across; flowers 12—18, in small, sessile, congested, axillary racemes, 
6—15 mm. long; calyx 1 mm. long, white, pubescent, teeth long, setaceous; corolla 
purple, twice as long as calyx; standard pubescent; pod deflexed, straight, tetragonous, 
yalves slightly adpressed-puberulous, not torulose; seeds about 8, smooth, subreniform, 
Burma: Shan Hills, at Koni and Fort Stedman; Calcutta Collectors ! 
The leaves of this species are not unlike those of J, Brunoniana Wall, but are 
much smaller; the habit, inflorescence and pods are practically those of the otherwise 
very different 1, ¢rifuiata Linn, | 
Prate 27.—Indigofera squalida Prom. 1, flowering plant, and 2, fruiting branch,—both from 
Fort Stedman and both of natural size; 3, flower-bud; 4, flower; 5, calyx, laid open; 6, standard ; 
7, wings; 8, keel; 9, stamens; 1o, anther; ll, ovary; 12 and 13, pods; 14, seed,—ai? variously 
magnified. 
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