Indigofera. | LEGUMINOSH. 359 
ovary glabrous; pods a purplish black, smooth, 2-4 in. 
long, obliquely obovate to oblong. and torose, acute, con ntaining 
or 2 _— elliptically oblong black eoedi 
~—Rather frequent in the tropical forests along the eastern and tags 
epee of the Pegu a and from Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan 
March ; Fr. May-June.—s.—SS.—Metam. Lat. p. SiS. 
REMARES. Wood idecinted: turning brownish, rather heavy, coarsely 
os and rather loose-grained, soon attacked by xylophages. Yields a red 
INDIGOFERA, L. 
Calyx small, broad and i oi ne AS he or lobes almost equal, 
or the lower longer. Standard o orbicular, sessile or con- 
icted in a claw; wings oblong ; “Eel otal slightly cohering to 
the wings, erect, blunt or acuminate, at both sides laterally gibbous 
or spurred, ‘Staminal tube thin, se ome the vexillar stamen 
free from the base; anthers conform, the connective gland-like 
apiculate. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with 1 or 2 or more ovules ; 
style glabrous, the capitate stigma often penicillate. Pod various, 
from globular to linear, septate within between the seeds. Seeds 
without strophiole, the radicle often club-shaped.—Herbs, shrubs, 
or rarely trees, with simple or digitate or pinnate leaves. Stipules 
small and almost Pe to the petiole ; stipulets sometimes 
present, Flowers in axillary racemes or spikes. Bracts apes or 
none, 
* Calyx deeply cleft, the lobes subulate-acuminate. Corolla 
ton twice as long as the calyx (all herbs or under- 
ok Ps Calg —— ew teeth short, more or less acute 
‘orolla : times as long as the calyzx, but 
teat hosts longer (shrubs, rarely trees). 
x Leaves simple « or ” 3-Foliol ate. 
Whole stiff hairs ; leaves 1-8 
 telolate on the same plant ; stip ules very minute . - I. Brunoniana. 
tawny ; leaves folate sired about 2 lin. 
; . I. ealoneura. 
x x Leaves unpaired-pinna 
© Pods more or less pee 13-2 in. long ; 
Stipnles cubical or 4-gonous. Séikéaa 
Ip 2-3 keg 1 s minutel — pubescent as - L. ga 
en rae —— 4 eo ple alcneliat 
O O Pods terete, about an inch Tong, ,eabrowe 5 
seeds cylindrical ; stipules : te elliptica. 
1. I Brun Grah. ; H.f. Ind. FL. ii. 93.—Toung-mai-sain. 
oniana, 
—An erect. branched shrub or undershrub, 1-3 ft. highs all parts 
greyish from short stiff appressed hairs ; stipules subulate, very 
minute ; leaves 1- (or the lower ones occasionally pmnately 3-) foliol- 
ate, on a canescent 4-1 in. long petiole; leaflets oblong to elliptically 
