26 LegumiflOSCe. {Indigofera. 



A small shrub, 1-3 ft., with numerous stout, woody, as- 

 cending branches, more or less densely hoary with small, 

 white adpressed hair, young parts white, silky; 1. imparipin- 

 nate, rachis \— \ in., stip. lanceolate, acuminate, lflts. 3-5, 

 rarely 7, alternate, very shortly stalked, f— 1 in., narrowly 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, slightly hairy above, 

 white with dense pubescence beneath, conduplicate when 

 young, terminal one largest ; fl. small, numerous, on short, 

 curved ped., racemes spicate, rather close, longer than 1.; cal.- 

 segm. lanceolate, cuspidate ; pods numerous on whole length 

 of raceme, deflexed, \-\ in., slightly curved outwards, apiculate, 

 torulose, hoary; seeds about 6. 



Dry and desert regions ; rather common. Jaffna, abundant ; Aripo ; 

 Kalpitiya and Karativu I., abundant ; Matalan, N. Prov. (Nevill). Fl. 

 Feb., March, August ; red. 



Also occurs in Trop. Africa, Arabia, Beluchistan, Sind, and in Java. 



Mr. Nevill gives me as the Tamil name of this ' Kuttukarasamatti.' 



/. fiarviflora, Heyne. A scrap in the Peradeniya collection collected 

 by Ferguson in 1865 at Colombo may be this species, but is too imper- 

 fect for certain identification. 



12. I. hirsuta, L. Sft. PI. 751 (1753). 



Herm. Mus. 10. Burm. Thes. 37. Fl. Zeyl. n. 272. Moon Cat. 54. 

 Thw. Enum. 83. C. P. 1456. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 98. Burm. Thes. t. 14. 



Annual, 1-3 ft, erect, slightly branched, branches hori- 

 zontal, covered (as is whole plant,) with spreading reddish 

 hair ; 1. imparipinnate, rachis iJ-2 in., stip. f in., filiform, con- 

 spicuous, lflts. 7(3 pair and end one), shortly stalked, f-i in., 

 oblong-oval, very hairy on both sides, especially beneath ; fl. 

 numerous, on short curved ped., racemes long-stalked, rather 

 dense, greatly exceeding 1.; cal.-segm. long, filiform, very 

 hairy ; pods § in., numerous, deflexed, overlapping, oblong- 

 linear, somewhat quadrangular, apiculate, densely clothed with 

 spreading hair; seeds 8. 



Dry and intermediate regions ; very common. Fl. March-Aug. ; 

 bright pink. 



In nearly all Tropical countries. 



Hermann's name for this is ' Ghasundupjali ' (Gas-undupiyali). 



13. * I. tinctoria, L. Sfi. PL 751 (1753). Nil-awari, S. 

 Herm. Mus. 32. Burm. Thes. 69. Fl. Zeyl. n. 273. Moon Cat. 54. 



Thw. Enum. 411. C. P. 3591. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 99. Wight, Ic. t. 365. Bentl. and Trim. Med. PI. t. 72. 



A low shrub, 2-4 ft., with numerous virgate, slightly 

 angular branches, more or less covered with white adpressed 

 hairs ; 1. imparipinnate, rachis 1 J-2 in., adpressed-pilose, stip. 



