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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BO- 
d fi 
By Dr. Wight, and G. A-W. Arnott, Esq. 
C 8.) 
INDIGOFERA TRITA. 
(Tas. XVI.) 
Herbacea v. suffruticosa erecta rigida pu- 
be appressa canescens, foliis pinnatim 
trifoliolatis, foliolis ovalibus oblongisve 
mucronatis, racemis sessilibus foliorum 
longitudine multifloris, floribus parvis 
Seopa deciduis, segmentis caly- 
inis longis subulatis, leguminibus re- 
flexis patentibusve arcte approximatis ad 
basin rachidis 4- singalatis sap een 
cuspidatis, 10) 
do. et 
tetragonis utrinque truncatis. 
rn. Fl. Penins. Ind. 
Indigofera trita, Linn. Suppl. p. 335. De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 232. Roxb. Fi. 
Ind. v. 3. p. 371. E. I. C. Mus. t. 379. 
Wallich, Cat. n. 5449. Wight, Cat. 
n. 856, 
I. gnus Willd. Sp. PL v. 2. p. 1235. 
De Spr. peu Veget. 
Roxb, Fl. Ind. v. 3. 
I. canescens, Lam. Enc. Meth. v. 3. p.251. 
De Cand. l c. p. 224. Wall. Cat. n. 
5448. 
I. hedysaroides, Lam. l c. p. 250. De 
Cand. 1. c. p. 232. Spr. k c. p. 275. 
I. arcuata, Willd. 1. c. .p. 1228. De Cand. 
le 
i8 a a Wall. Cat. n. 5453. 
I. rigida, Willd. Enum. p.230. De Cand. 
Lc p.24. 
Stems suffruticose, erect, flexuose, round- 
ed, glabrous, and br: anching below, but near- 
ly simple, irregularly angled, and hispid 
towards the extremities. Leaves ternate, 
. petioled; petioles almost an inch long, fur- 
rowed above, and, like the elliptic, mucro- 
nate, retuse leaflets, hispid and canescent. 
Leaflets whiter below than above. Sti- 
 pules short, filiform, subulate. Racemes 
axillary, generally longer than the peti- 
oles, or even than the leaves, but that the 
upper flowers prove abortive, and then the 
extremity of the rachis _withers and falls 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
away. Calyx 5-cleft; divisions filifon 
hairy, persistent. Corolla: Vexillum e 
keel spurred and elastic at the base. 
a sharp spinous process, pointing down- 
wards: the back of the legume curved, 
as to resemble, while ataakai to the plant, 
an inverted arch. Seeds numerous, sepa- 
rated by partitions, truncated at both ior 
ack. 
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Indigofera trita is usually found in large 
patches in pastures, flowering and ripening - 
its seeds during the cool season, where it 
proves a Gin sca weed in consequence - 
of the spinous points of its legumes, which 
cause considerable pain at the time. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
We are requested to give publicity to 
the following notice respecting a new 
tanical Society, which has lately been 
formed in Edinburgh. The names of the 
chief office-bearers are sufficient, alone, to 
confer respectability on the Institution, 
and we heartily wish it may be productive 
of all the good to Science, which its found- - 
ers anticipate. endan in no part of 
the kingdom, is such a Society so likely 
to succeed and flourish as in Edinburg 
where the school of Botany, as conne 
with the University, is so extensive, where 
the country is eminently interesting, no less 
or the variety and rarity of its vegetable > 
productions, as for the almost classical ce 
brity of many of its localities, and above 
where the estimable character, and 
enthusiasm of the Professor of B 
study attractive. 
passed of late, that has not been m 
with the addition of some new or exceed- 
ingly rare plant to the Scottish Flora, by: 
band of Edinburgh Naturalists, who have 
made excursions under the guidance 
Dr. Grah 
