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PLATE 28. 
98, INDIGOFERA BELLA Prain in Journ. As. Soc, Beng. lxvi, 2, 855 (1897). 
Natural order Leguminose. 
A shrub, 8—12 feet high, branches long, virgate, slender, glabrous, slightly 4-angled ; 
leaves odd-pinnate, leaflets 7—9, large, 8 сш. long, 4:5 cm. wide, ovate-acute, apiculate, 
quite glabrous above, very sparsely puberulous and glaucous beneath, rigidly chartaceous, 
veins 10—12 pairs, slender but rather conspicuous beneath; stipules linear, deciduous, 
2 mm, long, stipels setaceous subpersistent; leaf-rachis deeply channelled above, 10—12 
em. long, petiolules 5 mm. long; racemes axillary, 10—20 ст. long, becoming bare 
ut base but not truly peduncled, copiously close-flowered; flowers shortly pedieelled ; 
calyx campanulate, З mm: long, teeth short, deltoid; corolla "white, 1:5 cm, long, 
standard thinly pubescent externally twice as long as broad, claw short base truncate 
apex obtuse, wings lanceolate; pod 5 cm. long, cylindric with thickened sutures 4 mm. 
thick, glabrous, tip very abruptly upturned; seeds many, tessaroid, 2 mm. long, l'ó mm, 
wide and thick, testa reddish-brown. 
Burma: Myingyin Hills; Prazsr 1 Kalay Hills; Prazer! Респ; Kurz! 
A very handsome species that ought to prove welcome when introdueed into 
gardens, Its nearest ally is а Chinese plant (Henry п. 3865) which does not appear 
to have received a name. 
Prate 28.—Indigofera bella Prain, 1, portion of branch from flowering specimen from Kalay 
Hills, Upper Burma,—of natural віс; 2, calyx, laid open x 2; 3, stindard x 2; 4, wings x 2; 5, 
keel x 2; 6 and 7, staminal sheath and vexillary stamen x 2; 8, ovary x 2; 9, portion of branch from 
specimen in fruit, from South Myingyin Hills, —of natural size ; 10, seed x 4, 
D. Р. 
PLATE 29. 
29. INDIGOFERA HAMILTONII Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5465 (1830), | 
Natural order Leguminose. 
A low undershrub, burnt down annually by the forest fires, branches 5—8 in., 
thinly coated with adpressed hairs; leaves 2°5—6-5 em. long, leaflets oblong, usuall у 3, 
rarely 5, opposite except the terminal, 1:5—2 cm. long, 1—1:5 em. wide, membranous, 
pale-green, sparsely adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces, petiole 15 em. long and rachis 
glabrous, stipules small, lanceolate, caducous; petiolules 9:5 mm., stipels minute, subulate, 
very caducous; racemes usually all springing from the woody stock, clustered, rather long- 
peduncled, 20—30 cm. long, Bowers throughout scattered, bracts caducous, lanceolate. TU 
shorter than the very short pedicels; calyz 2 mm. long, obliquely wide-campanulate, teeth 
wide-deltoid ; corolla under 1 ст. long, pale-purple with darker lines; pod ligulate, straight, 
not turgid, 9—12 seeded, 3°5 em, long, 4 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick; séeds йени? 
compressed. I. atropurpurea Baker in Hook. f. Рот. Brit, Ind. її. 101 (1876) £n port, 
not of Ham. I. juncea Ham. Mss, not of Del. : 
N. W, Provinces: Gorakhpur; Hamilton in Wall. Cat. 5405! Duthie’s Collector f 
Oudh, Kheri; Duthie’s Collector ! (Herb, Saharanpur nn. 21518, 21519, 21520.) 
