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bblong-oval, mucronate: racemes shorter than the leaves, many= 
flowered : flowers crowded: legumes erect, cylindrical, stout, 
straight, 10-12-seeded: seeds truncated. at both ends. 
Madura Hills. Mysore. 
(17) I. rincronra. ( Linn.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. 1. p. 202.—Dec. prod. I. p. 224.— 
Roxb. fi. Ind. III. p. 379. : 
Syn. I. Indica, Lam.—I. Sumatrana, Gaertn. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 365.—Rheede Mal. ¥. t. 54.—Pluk. 
t. 165. f. 5. 
Spec. Cuar. Suffruticose, ereet, pubescent: leaves pinnated ; 
leaflets 5-6 pair, oblong-obovate, decreasing in size towards the 
apex of the leaf: racemes shorter then the leaves: flowers approx= 
imated at the base of the raceme, distant end deciduous towards the 
apex: legumes slightly torulose, deflexed, more or less curved up- 
wards: seeds about 10, truncated at both ends: flowers greenish 
rose. 
Found wild at Quilon, and in some parts of the Conean, flowere 
ing in the rainy season. This is the common Indigo plant. 
(18) I. carutesa. (Roxbd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 203.—Roxb. ff. Ind, III. p. 377, 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 366. 
Srrc. Cuar. An erect shrub, covered with whitish pubescence ; 
leaves pinnated ; leaflets 4-5 pair, obovate, the terminal largest ; 
all hairy underneath: racemes solitary, shorter than the leaves: 
upper flowers deciduous: legumes short, deflexed, and faleate up- 
wards; slightly torulose, 3-4-seeded : flowers small, yellowish-red. 
Rajamundry Circars. Dindigul Hills. Flowering nearly all the 
year. = 
(19) I. purcnetza. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 203.—Roxb. fi. Ind. III. p. 382. 
Syn. I. purpurascens, Roxb. 1. ¢. p.383.—I. cassioides, Rotil.— 
Dec. prod. II. p, 225. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, t. 367. 
Srrc. Cuar. Shrub or small tree; young parts usually hairy s, 
branches angled: leaves pinnated ; leaflets 8-10 pair, obovate, mu- 
cronate: racemes about the length of the leaves, axillary, or from 
the former years leafless branches: petals spreading and resembling 
a 2-lipped corolla, inuch longer than the calyx : legumes scattered, 
thick, straight and sharp-pointed: 10-12-seeded: flowers light 
purple. 
