252 LEGUMINOSM. [Indigofeea. 



Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; 'petioles shorter than the leaflets ', stipules 

 minute, setaceous ; leaiiets \-\ in., oblanceolate, cuneate at the base, 

 nearly glabrous above, glaucous densely appressed-hairy and dotted 

 with black glands beneath ; terminal leaflet sessile. Racemes sessile, 

 densely 6-12-flowered, shorter than the leaves. .Fiotuers small, shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx-teeth long, setaceous. Corolla red. Pod deflexed, ^-f 

 in., linear, straight, somewhat 4-angular and with 2 narrow wings on 

 either side of each suture, thinly clothed with white hairs, not torulose, 

 6-8-seeded. 

 Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Siwaliks, Bundelkhand. Disteib. Himalaya up 

 to 4,000 feet, extending;to Bengal, Ceylon and Burma ; also in Java, 

 China and N. Australia. *«. 



9. I.trita, Linn. f. Suppl. 335 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 371 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 

 203; Royle ill. 191 ; D. Sf G. Bomb. Fl. 60 ; P. B. I. ii, 96. I. cinerea, 



Willd. ; Roxh. I. c. b72. 



An undershrub '^-3 feet high. Branches many, rigid, divaricate, thinly 

 clothed with deciduous appressed grey hairs. Leaves 3 foliolate, petiole 

 5-| in. ; stipules minute, setaceous ; leaflets ob ovate- oblong, the side-ones 

 •|-1 in. long and subsessile, the end one stalked and usually larger than 

 the other two. Racemes short and spike-like, 6-12-flowered, shorter 

 than the i eaves . Flowers small, nearly sessile, the upper ones usually 

 deciduous. Calyx-teeth long, setaceous. CoruUa ? in. long, salmon-red. 

 Pod 1-1^ in., deflexed or spreading, very firm, i-gonous, not torulose, 

 pointed, S-10-seeded. 



Eohilkhand, Agra and Bundelkhand. Disteib. Plains of Punjab and 

 Bengal, south to Ceylon, and in Burma ; also in Trop. Africa, the Malay 

 Islands, and in N. Australia, 



10. I. sutoulata, Vahl in Poir. Encycl. Suppl. Hi, 150 ; F. B. I. ii, 96' 



I. flaccida. Keen ; Lioxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 375 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 204. 



A perennial suffruticose herb. Young parts thinly clothed with white 

 appressed hairs. Stems weak, slender, subscandent- Leaves 5-foliolate; 

 stipules long, setaceous, erect ; leaflets |-1 in. long, stalked, oval, obtuse, 

 apiculate, thin, finely pubescent on both surfaces, paler beneath. 

 Racemes many-flowered, exceeding the leaves, elongating after flower- 

 ing- Flowers small, rather distant. Calyx-teeth setaceous. Corolla 

 2-3 times the calyx, lilac. Pods mostly produced on the lower portion 

 of the raceme, 1-2 in. long, deflexed from the base and curving upwards, 

 sub quadrangular, pointed, not torulose, glabrous. Seeds 8-12« 



Merwara (Duthie). Disteib. South to Ceylon ; also in Trop, Africa and 

 in America. 



11. I. angulosa, Fdgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxi (1853), 168 ; 

 F. B. I. ii, 97. I. subulata, var. angulosa, Edgew. in .lourn. Linn. Soc. 

 ix, 311. 



A sufEruticose perennial herb. Branches and membranous leaves thinly 

 clothed with appressed grey hairs. Leaflets 5, opposite, 1-li in. long, 



