Caragana] XLV. LEGUAHXt >S.E 217 



persistent at the base of the short leaf- and flower-bearing branchlets. Flowers single, 

 on short peduncles, calyx cylindric. Besides these there is a number of low thorny 

 shrubs. 



4. COLUTEA, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Lad. ii. 103. 



Shrubs with imparipimiate leaves. Fl. large, yellow or reddish, iu few- 

 flowered axillary racemes. Standard broad, bi plicate or bicallose at the base, 

 claw short. Keel broad, much incurved, not beaked. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, ovules x, style much incurved, bearded 

 along the inside. Pod large, membranous inflated, indehiscent or incompletely 

 dehiscent. Species 4-5, South Europe, Western Asia, N.W. Himalaya. 



1. C. arborescens, Linn., var. nepalensU. — Svn. C. nejpalensis, Sims; 

 Brand. F. Fl. 136; Collett Simla Flora, 123. 



Unarmed, leaflets 4-8 pair, glabrous, oval or obovate. Corolla bright yellow. 

 Pod 2 in. long, hairy when young, splitting at the tip when ripe. 



Arid valleys of the inner Himalaya 8,000-11,500 ft., Ladak to Ivumaun, Kuram 

 valley. Southern Europe and Western Asia. 2. Colutea armata. Hemsley and Lac.i 

 Journ. Linn. Soo. xxviii. tab. 39, is a small spiny shrub of the Baluchistan hills (7.500- 

 9,000 ft.), with grey, fibrous hark, spinescent branchlets, small flowers and nods 1 in. 

 long. 



5. INDIGOFERA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 92. 



Herbs or shrubs, hairs adpressed, generally attached by the middle. Leaves 

 simple, trifoliolate or imparipinnate, leaflets mostly opposite. Fl. iu axillary 

 racemes, calyx oblique. Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform, apiculate. 

 Ovary sessile, style short, stigma capitate. Pod linear, seeds numerous. 

 Species 2.")ii. trojiical and sub-tropical regions. 



A. Leaflets mosth opposite, 1-1.") pair. PI. large, over J iu. long. 



1. I. pulchella, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 367^Syn. /. arborea, Roxb. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. BUS. Vern. Sakena, Kumaon ; Baroli, Mar.: Taic-me-yaing wild 

 forest Indigo, Burm. 



A large handsome shrub, sometimes with a short thick trunk, branches and 

 leaves thinly pubescent, leaflets 8-12 pair, elliptic to obovate, obtuse, often 

 mucronate, l.l in. long. Fl. pink; bracts canescent, longer than buds, early 

 deciduous. Calyx canescent, teeth triangular, acuminate. Pod straight, 

 turgid, sutures thick. 



Subhimalayan tract and outer valleys, ascending to : : . i m m i h., from Kafka east ■ ard. 

 Common in Sal forests. Both Peninsulas, in Burma chiefly in Eng f->i-i— i. Fl. Dec. 

 to March. PL eaten. 



K in z. F. PI. I. 861, distinguishes T. elliptica, Roxb., Pegu and Martaban, a- a 

 separate species, lealleis I s pair, |«id lereie. with pale prominent sutures, - Is 6 10, 



black, cylindric. 



2. I. atropurpurea. Ham.: Wight let. 369. Vern, Khenti, Kaghan; 

 Kathi, Kashmir; Kola Sakena, Kum 



A large shrub, Dearly glabrous, leaflets 5 6 pair, ovate-oblong, 1 ; . in. Long. 

 Fl. dark purple, in pedunculate racemes, as long as leaves or I ipact 



wliile in hud. I he long acuminate bracts longer than the buds. Calyx teeth 



short, triangular. Pod straight, slightlj compressed, margiuate. rellexed when 

 ripe. 



Outer Himalaya, from Hazara to Nepal, generally between 2,000 and 9,000 ft. - 

 range. Khasiand Nana hills. Upper Burma, Yunan. PI, R.S. :'•. I. Hamiltonii, Grab, 

 an undershrub, burnt down by the annual fires, like Erplhrina retiipinata, leaflets 

 usually I pair. tl. purple | in. long, distant in long slender racemes. 



I. I. hebepetala, Benth. Himalaya 6,000-10,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim ; a tall 



