24 LeguminOSCB. \_Indigofera. 



6. X. tenuifolia, Rottl. ex W. and A. Prod. 200 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 83. C. P. 1462. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 95. 



Annual, 6-18 in. high, with numerous spreading or as- 

 cending, slender, slightly strigose branches ; 1. imparipinnate, 

 rachis J— § in., strigose, stip. small, setaceous, lflts. usually 9 

 (4 pair and end one), very shortly stalked, obovate-linear, with 

 few coarse adpressed hairs on both sides, stipel minute, 

 setaceous ; fl. small, shortly stalked, 3-8 in axillary racemes 

 usually longer than 1., cal.-segm. setaceous ; pod nearly 1 in., 

 linear, compressed, straight, with scattered adpressed hair, 

 rather torulose, about 10-seeded. 



Dry region; rare. Trincomalie ; Bintenne ; Bibile, Uva. Fl. Jan.; 

 red. 



Also in S. India. 



7. X. viscosa, Lam. Encycl. iii. 247 (1789). 

 Thw. Enum. 83. C. P. 1459. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 95. Wight, Ic. 404 (not good). 



Annual, but often semi-woody below, 1-3 ft., branches 

 numerous, spreading, densely clothed with gland-tipped hairs, 

 so as to be very viscous to the touch ; 1. imparipinnate, rachis 

 about 1 in., slender, very viscous, with glandular hair, stip. 

 filiform-setaceous, lflts. 7-13 (3-6 pair and end one), usually 

 11, obovate-oval, obtuse, apiculate, nearly sessile, finely hairy 

 above, with larger adpressed hairs beneath ; fl. small, very 

 shortly stalked, 3-6 in glandular racemes rather shorter than 

 1.; cal.-segm. filiform, setaceous; pod |— § in., linear, straight, 

 cylindrical, torulose, apiculate, clothed with both adpressed 

 white hairs and copious gland-tipped ones; seeds 10-12. 



Dry region ; very common in open places. Fl. May-Sept; pink. 

 Throughout the Tropics of Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



8. I. trifollata, L. Amcen. Acad. iv. 327 (1759). 



Thw. Enum. 83. C. P. 3592. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 96. Wight, Ic. t. 314. 



Herbaceous, 1-2 ft, branches few, slender, elongated, with 

 scattered, adpressed white hairs ; 1. 3-foliolate, petiole ^-f in., 

 slender, stip. very small, setaceous, lflts. \-\ in., shortly stalked, 

 narrowly obovate-oval, tapering to base, obtuse, apiculate, 

 nearly glabrous above, glaucous with white adpressed hair 

 and with scattered glandular dots beneath ; fl. small, on very 

 short, curved ped., 3-6 crowded in very short sessile racemes; 

 cal.-segm. lanceolate, acuminate ; pod \-\ in., deflexed, linear, 

 straight, somewhat quadrangular, with 4 narrow longitudinal 

 wings, one on either side of each suture, not torulose, with a 

 few scattered white hairs, 6-8-seeded. 



