Indigofera.~\ LcgumillOSCZ. 25 



Dry or intermediate regions ; rare. Mineri; near Badulla. Fl. Dec- 

 March ; dai'k pink. 



Throughout India, and in Java, China, N. Australia. 



There are specimens in Hb. Perad. without locality which are probably 

 /. vestita, Baker, of S. India. 



9. Z. trita, L.f. Supp. PL 335 (1781). Wal-awari, S. 

 Thw. Enum. S3. C. P. 1463. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 96. Wight, Ic. tt. 315, 386. 



A low, coarse under-shrub, 1-2 ft. high, branches numerous, 

 rigid, divaricate, hoary with adpressed white hair; 1. 3-folio- 

 late, petiole ^-f in., stip. small, setaceous, lflts. narrowly 

 obovate-oblong, the end one stalked, the lat.' ones nearly 

 sessile, usually slightly emarginate, dark green and glabrous 

 above, whitish and finely hairy beneath, stipels minute ; fl. 

 rather small, § in., numerous, nearly sessile, in spicate racemes 

 shorter than 1.; cal.-segm. narrow, acuminate; wing- and keel- 

 pet, very long, the former emarginate at apex; pod i-i^in., 

 linear, divaricate, rigid, straight, quadrangular, spine-pointed, 

 not torulose, purplish-silvery, with adpressed hairs ; seeds 8. 



Dry region ; rather common in damp waste ground. Trincomalie ; 

 Batticaloa ; several places bet. Anuradhapura and Trincomalie ; Ata- 

 kalan Korale. Fl. May; salmon-red. 



In most countries of Trop. Asia, N. Australia. 



The fl. at the top of the racemes do not produce pods, and the end of 

 the rachis in fruit becomes rigid and spine-pointed. 



10. I. subulata, Poir. Encycl. Meth. Supp. iii. 150 (1813). 

 I.flaccida, Koen., Thw. Enum. 83. C. P. 1460. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 96. Wight, Ic. t. 387 {I.fiaccidd). 



Perennial, with very long, slender, sub-scandent stems, 

 branches numerous, ascending or spreading, striate, nearly 

 glabrous, when young with white adpressed hair ; 1. impari- 

 pinnate, rachis 1-2 in., slender, hoary, stip. filiform, lflts. 5 (2 

 pair and end one), stalked, readily disarticulating, oval, obtuse, 

 apiculate, hairy on both sides, paler beneath ; fl. small, on 

 short, strongly curved ped., numerous, in very long-stalked, 

 slender, spicate racemes, exceeding the 1.; cal.-segm. setaceous ; 

 pod i^-i^in., linear, slender, deflexed at base, curved out- 

 wards, and divaricate, sharp-pointed, subquadrangular, nearly 

 glabrous, not torulose; seeds 8-12. 



Dry region, scrambling over bushes ; rather rare. Trincomalie ; 

 Haragama; Anuradhapura. Fl. December- Feb.; pale purplish-red. 



I ound in S. India and in Trop. Africa and America. 



Easily known by its straggling sub-scandent habit. The racemes 



Itly elongate after flowering, frequently reaching 9 in., the pods being 

 mostly found in the lower half. 



m.I. paucifolia, Del. Descr. Egypte, 251 (181 2). Nanti, T. 



Thw. Enum. 83. C. P. 1454. 



FL Ii. Ind. ii. 97. Wight, Ic. t. 331. 



