1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of tie Malayan Peninsula. 81 



1. Indigofera hirsuta Linn. Sp. PL 751. An annual or bien- 

 nial suberect herb 1-3 or 4 feet high ; stem densely covered with 

 soft short spreading grey or btovvn pubescence. Leaves 2-5 in. long, 

 short-petioled ; leaflets terminal and in 2-5 opposite pairs, obovate 1-2 

 in. long, membranous greyish-green above, glaucous beneath, densely 

 coated with adpressed hairs ; stipules setaceous, plumose. Racemes 2-6 

 in. long, short-peduncled, very dense-fid. Calyx densely pubescent, 

 *15 in. long ; teeth setaceous plumose ; tube very short. Corolla 2 in. 

 long, little exserted, purple or red. Pod *5-'7 in long, straight, densely 

 covered with spreading grey pubescence, 6-S seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 228 ; 

 Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 376 ; Jacq. Ic. I, 569 ; Wall. Oat. 5450 ; Hook. Comp. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 24 ; W. & A. Prodr. 1, 204 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I. 304 ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 98. I. ferruginea Schum. & Thonn. PL Guin. 370. 



Pahang ; Ridley ! Penang ; Curtis ! Malacca ; Ridley ! Singapore ; 

 Hullett ! Distrib. Tropics generally. 



2. Indigofera Anil Linn. Mantiss. 272. A shrub 4-6 feet high 

 with twiggy woody thinly silvery branches. Leaves 2-3 in. long, 

 petioles '5-1 in. ; leaflets terminal and in 5-8 opposite pairs, ovate-acute 

 '5-1 in. long, membranous, green ; stipules subulate. Racemes 1-2 in. 

 long, dense-fld., nearly sessile. Calyx '04 in. silvery, teeth acute as long 

 as tube. Corolla purple *15-'2 in., distinctly exserted. Pods '4-6 in. 

 long '1 in. thick glabrescent retro-falcate 4-6-seeded. Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 307. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 99. I. tinctoria var. Anil Kurz 

 Journ. As. Soc. XLY, pt. 2, 269 excl. all syn. 



Andamans; Port Blair, not uncommon. A native of America but 

 not uncommon in cultivation and as an introduced escape or weed in the 

 Old World. This is apparently much commoner in Indo-China than it 

 is in India ; it is frequently mistaken for Indigofera coerulea Roxb. 

 which however appears to be exclusively an Indian plant. 



3. Indigofera tinctoria Linn. Sp. PL 751. A shrub 4-6 feet 

 high with twiggy woody thinly silvery branches. Leaves 1-2 in. long, 

 petioles '5-1 in. ; leaflets terminal and in 4-6 opposite pairs, obovate- 

 oblong, '5-1 in. long membranous, green; stipules subulate. Racemes 

 2-4i in. long, lax-fld. nearly sessile. Calyx '04 in., silvery, teeth acute 

 as long as tube. Corolla reddish-yellow '15-2 in., distinctly exserted. 

 Pods '7—1 in. long *1 in thick, glabrescent straight, or slightly recurved 

 towards tip, 8-12-seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 224 (var. a. only); Roxb. 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 379; Wall. Cat. 5474 ; W. & A. Prodr. I, 202 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 365 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 1, 306 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 99. 1. indica 

 Lamk, Encyc. Meth. Ill, 245. I. sumatrana Gsertn. Fruct. II, 317, t. 148. 



Penang ; cultivated, Curtis ! Malacca ; Griffith ! Pangkore ; Scorte- 

 chini ! Pahang ; " growing near Sultan's tomb," Ridley ! Singapore ; 

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