9Q L. LEGTTMINOSJ;. (J. G. Baker.) [Indigofera. 



Group 5. TinotoricB. Leaves odd-pinnate. Racemes many-flowered, usually 

 peduncled. Pods linear, usually many-seeded. 



* Leaflets 3-5. 



16. X. trifollata, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 223 ; sufiruticose, ■branches and 

 membranous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed hairs, racemes sessile con- 

 gested, leaflets 3 the end one sessile, pod straight glahrescent 6-8-seeded. 



W. 8f A. Prodr. 201 ; Wight Ic. t. 314 ; Dak. %■ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 59. I. pro- 

 strata, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 233 ; Roxh. Hort. Beng. 98 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 373. 

 I. moluccana, DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. muMcaulis, DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. canes- 

 cens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5448. I. peregrina, DC. Prodr. ii. 224. I. orixensis, 

 Moxb. MSS. I. adenophylla, Crrah. in Wall. Cat. 6462. I. congesta, Grah. in 



Wall. Cat. 6471. 



HiMAiATAS (ascending to 4000 ft. in Kumaon) to Ceylon, Tenasseeim, Heifer. — 

 DisTBiB. Java, China, Philippines, North Australia. 



Perennial. Stems copiously branched, trailing or subereet, 1-2 ft. long, soon 

 glabreseent. Stipules minute, setaceous ; petiole shorter than the leaflets, which are 

 always 3, digitate, oblanceolate, ^-1 in. long, grey-green above, glaucous below with 

 black dots. Eacemes 6-12-flowered, usually shorter than the petiole. Calyx ^ in. ; 

 teeth long, setaceous. Corolla red, 3-4 times the calyx. Pod deflexed, ^— | in. long, 

 the sutures acutely bordered, the valves not torulose. 



17. I. vestita, Baher; sufiruticose, branches and leaves densely pubes- 

 cent, leaflets 3 the end one sessile, racemes sessile congested, pod straight 

 pubescent many-seeded. 



Western Peninsoia ; Pulney hiUs, Wight. 



Closely allied to the preceding, differing mainly in pubescence. Branches very 

 slender, densely csespitose, under a foot long, ascending, clothed like the petioles, and 

 leaves with short spreading soft brownish hairs. Petiole ^-# in. ; leaflets crowded, 

 obovate, soft, thick, obtuse, j-| in. long. Eacemes as in /. trifoliata. Calyx densely 

 pubescent, teeth setaceous, plumose. Pod clothed with brown pubescence like that, 

 of the branches. 



18. Z. trita, lAnn.fil. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232 ; sufiruticose, branches and mem- 

 branous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs, leaflets 8 obovate the 

 end one stalked, racemes congested, pod straight tetragonous 6-10-seeded not 

 torulose. Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 371 ; Don Prodr. 245 ; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 16 ; W.^ A. Prodr. 204 ; Wall. Cat. 6449 ; Wight Ic. t. 315, 386 ; Dcds. 

 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 60. I. cinerea, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. timoriensis, 

 Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. canescens, Lamh. ; DC. Prodr. 224, non Wall. 

 I. hedysaroides, Lamh. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. arcuata, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 232. I. rigida, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 224. I. armata, Wall. Cat. 5453. 

 I. argentea, Wall. Cat. 5455, in part. I. Leschenaultii, DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. 

 temata, Boxb. MSS. I. virgata, DC. Prodr. ii. 224, non Boxb. 



Plains of India from the Himalayas to Ceyxon ; Biema. — Disteib. Trop. Africa, 

 Malay isles. North Australia. 



An undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, with firm slender branches, soon glabreseent. Stipules 

 minute, setaceous ; petiole J— | in. ; leaflets always 3, the end one 1-1^ in. long, the 

 side ones opposite. Eacemes 6-12-flowered, usually sessile, seldom over an inch long. 

 Calyx ^-J in., white-canescent; teeth long, setaceous. Corolla purplish-red, twice the 

 calyx. Pod deflexed, |-1^ in. long, the flrm glabreseent valves obtusely keeled. 



19. Z. subulata, Vahl; DC. Prodr. ii. 232; sui&uticose, branches and 

 membranous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs, leaflets 5 obovate 

 the side ones opposite, racemes elongated, pod long recurved 10-15-seeded not 



