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from Zanoni (Hist. p. 18, tab. 12): ‘Anil africanum siliquis brevi- 
bus articulatis.” Gouan’s synonymy and description leave no doubt 
as to the species intended, and there are specimens from him in 
Herb. Kew. 
' There is a 5 sige of Forskahl’s J. spicata in the British 
Museum Herbarium which is certainly se ede here. J. glauca 
or this is also L crate ete I. brachycarpa Graham in Wall. Cat. 
70 (=I. tinctoria L. var. brachycarpa Baker, non DO. Prod. ii. 
224) is correctly lena in the Flora of British India as a 
hae of the var. cerulea of I. argentea L., non Burm. 
I. brachycarpa Graham and JI. retusa Graham are quoted by 
Miquel as synonyms of J. Anii L. ds polyp ylla, which they are not; 
both of aoa are the a ae 
corrected to I. argentea by Smith. J. tomentosa Herb. Jacquin is 
- Anil L 
In Spe ectes Plantarum, = iv., & ipo is quoted as a synonym 
of I. tinctoria ; it is, however, OFT, Gnctorss Forsk., the ‘‘ Nil” of 
Egypt and Nubia; not Ka earlier L tinctoria L., the ‘* Nil” of 
India, whereof [. houer is a synonym. I. houer’ is the form of 
I. optoneironsa Forsk. FI. Es. p. 187 (1775). 
I. pauci Folin Delile, Fl. egypt. p. 251 (1812), 
I. desmodioides Baker in Kew Bulletin, non Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soe., is i Sidon with the above. See Vatke in Oest. Bot. 
Zeit. xxvii. p. 201 (1877 
I. uinirotta Retz, Obs. iv. p. 29 (1786); vi. p. 83, tab. 2 (1791). 
Hedysarum infin L. fil. Suppl. p. 831 (1781 
nnzus quotes this from “ India orientali. Konig.” Koenig’s 
specimens are in the National Herbarium—his Ms. diagnosis for 
this species was :— 
‘“‘ Herbacea. Foliis Simplicibus lineari-angustis canescentibus. 
Leguminibus globosis niveis, monospermis : habitat in ruderatis a 
pedes montium minus frequens.’ 
i gistapockang ch.-Ham. ex Roxb. Hort. Bengal. p. 57 (1814). 
Roxburgh J, sibouargers Buch.-Ham. This is the plant usually 
accepted under this name, and it shows what Roxburgh meant in 
the Hortus Benghalensis (1814). The same plant was issued as 
I. atropurpurea Hb. Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 5468 (date 1814). The 
sheet which Buchanan-Hamilton in his own hand named I. atro- 
purpurea, the type of the plant described in Don’s Prod. p. 244 
(1825), collected at Narainhetty, 7 Feb. 1803, is I. pulchella Roxb. 
