Indigofera.] i. legtiminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 101 



A low shrub, with copious slender trailing branches with a few adpressed hairs 

 at first. Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-4 in., long. ; leaflets opposite, membranous, 

 |-1 in. long, obtuse, pale green above, glaucous beneath, nearly glabrous ; stipellse 

 setaceous, | in. long. Pedtmoles reaching 2-3 in., bearing a close short raceme , 

 bracts herbaceous, boat-shaped, with a cusp, enfolding the buds. Ca^x ^ in., 

 campanulate, obscurely hairy; teeth deltoid. Corolla | in. long, pale red. Fod 

 linear, glabrous, not seen mature. 



35. X. atropurpurea, Samilt.; DC. Prodi: ii. 225; shrubby, brancbes 

 glabrescent, leaflets large oblong 11-17, stipellse minute, bracts lanceolate 

 acuminate exceeding the buds. JDtm Prodr. 244 ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 381 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 5463 ; Wight Ic. t. 369 ; Brand. For. Fl. 136 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3065 ; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1744. I. Hamiltonii, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5465. 



Tropical and temperate zones, through the Himaiatas, from Hazara and the 

 Punjab to Khasia, reaching 9000 ft. 



A tall shrub, with twiggy woody branches, only thinly coated with adpressed hairs 

 at first. Leaves reaching 6-9 in. long ; leaflets opposite, membranous, obtuse, usually 

 1-1 J in. long, green above, pale green below, glabrescent ; petiole 1-2 in. Bacemes 

 short-peduncled, long and narrow, 4-8 in. long, dense upwards ; bracts J in., subper- 

 sistent, narrowed gradually into a long point ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ in., 

 obliquely campanulate ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla ^-g- in., a much darker deeper 

 ,red than in any of the others. Fod linear, turgid, 1-1| in. long, glabrous, 6-10- 

 seededj not at all reflexed or narrowed into a beak. 



36. X. hebepetala, Bemth. M8S. ; shrubby, branches glabrescent, 

 leaflets large oblong 13-17 membranous, stipellse distinct, bracts boat-shaped 

 cuspidate exceeding the buds. 



HiKAtATAS, from Kashmie to SnLKiM, 6-1 5,000 ft. 



A tall shrub, with twiggy woody branches, only thinly coated with adpressed hairs 

 in the young state. Leaves 4-6 in. long ; leaflets opposite, membranous, obtuse, usually 

 1-1^ in. long, much smaller in a subalpine form, dull green above, pale but scarcely 

 glaucous belflw, with a few short adpressed bristly hairs on both sides. Sacemes 

 peduncled, 2-4 in. long, laxly 12-20-flowered ; pedicels and calyx as in the last ; bracts 

 more deciduous, enclosing the buds, with a setaceous tip protruding beyond them. 

 Corolla I in. deep, a much lighter and more crimson red than in /. atropurpurea, 

 glabrous externally, the keel ^ in. deep. Fod glabrous, turgid, straight, l|-2 in. long, 

 8-10-seeded. 



37. X. pulcbella, Roxb. Sort. Bmg. 57; Fl. Ind. iii. 382; shrubby, 

 branches obscurely hispid, leaflets large obovate-oblong 13-17 subcoriaceous, 

 stipellse abortive or very minute, bracts exceeding the buds. W. ^ A. Prodr. 

 203 ; Wight Ic. t. 867 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 60 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 85 ;' Anal. 

 Gen. t. 12, fig. 1. I. purpurascens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 388. I. cassioides, 

 Bottler ; DC. Prodr. ii. 225 ; Wall. Cat. 5468. I. verrucosa. Or ah. in WaU. 

 Cat. 5469. I. glaucescens, Grah. in WaU. Cat. 5484. I. elliptica, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 380. I. violacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 380 ; Wall. Cat^iTQ ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 8348. I. arborea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 381 ; Wall. Cat. 5478 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 368. I. Jirahulia, Samilt. in Wall. Cat. 5464. I. Gibsonii, Grah. Cat. Bomb. 

 PI. 46. 



Throughout the Himaiayas and hills of India peopeb, ascending to SOOO ft. in 

 Ktimaon. . 



A shrub 4-6 feet high, the trunk reaching the thickness of a man's leg. Branches 

 sulcate, thinly coated with grey adpressed hairs at first, soon glabrescent. Leaves 

 short-petioled, 3-6 in. long; leaflets opposite, firmer in texture than its allies, 

 obtuse, often emarginate, usually |-1 in. long, pale green above, glaucous below, thinly 



