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onaceae into two sets, those with small flowers a quarter 

 of an inch long or less, and those with fairly large and 

 conspicuous blossoms, an inch to over two inches long. 

 Of the first, the sweetheart plants have already been 

 mentioned ; the others, if erecl and shrubby, will be 

 indigo bushes (Indigofera) ; if a small creeping plant 

 found in open grassy places, with single leaflets, minute 

 reddish pink flowers of various shades, and bundles of 

 pods looking disproportionate^ large for the slender 

 stems, it will be the Demerara clover (Alysicar pus vagi- 

 nalis), really an East Indian fodder plant, but now a 

 common and very variable weed here and throughout 

 the West Indies. Of the indigo bushes, slender 

 shrubs with pinnate leaves and little spikes of in- 

 conspicuous flowers with pinkish wings, two kinds 

 are common here : the true dyer's indigo (Indigofera 

 tincloria), with pods over an inch long and rounded 

 leaflets; and the wild or Arab's indigo (I. Anils) 

 with little pyramids of half-inch pods and narrow 

 leaflets. Both grow together on the Lamaha dam near 

 the yellow cassias mentioned. Their industrial impor- 

 tance is well-known. 



The larger kinds will be either the seaside beans (Cana- 

 valia) or the blue and purple pea-flowers (Clitoria). 

 Here the shape of the flower will be our best guide ; the 

 seaside beans have typically papilionaceous flowers with 

 the standard uppermost, more or less ere6l, and not 

 enclosing the wings and keel ; they are trailing and 

 twining plants, with large trifoliate leaves and purple 

 flowers, found at the Kitty corner, &c. In the clitorias 

 the flower is reversed so that the standard lies under- 

 neath, folded so as to form a sort of bowl or oval shell 



