iKDiGorEE^.] LEGLMIJSOSM. 253 



obloiig, pale grey-green. Racemes pednncled, 4-6 in. long, mncli exceed- 

 ing the leaves. Pod about i in. long, moniliform, beaktd, 1-3-seeded. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), Merwara (Duthie). Similar in habit leaves 

 and flowers to /. suhulata, but with a very different pcd. 

 12. I. oblongifolia, Forsk. Fl. ^gyptr-irah. 137; Prain Sf E, 



Baher in J own. Bot.XL (1902), 142. I. paucifolia, Del. ; W. ,^ A. Prod. 201; 



Boyle 111 191 ; D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl- 59 ; F. B. 1. ii, 97 ; Watt E. D. I. argen- 



tea, Buch.-Ham ex Roxh- Hart. Beng, 57 ; Fl. hid. in, 374. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. high. Branches many, stout, woody, silvery-canescent. 

 Leaves 3-5-foliolate, occasionally reduced to a single leaflet on the 

 lower branches ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate ; leaflets alternate, 1-1 

 in long, shortly stalked, narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic, slightly 

 hairy above, densely clothed with white hairs beneath, hacemes 20-60- 

 flowered, dense and spike-like, exceeding the leaves ; hracts oval, 

 caducous. Flou-ers small, on short curved pedicels. Calyx silvery ; 

 teeth short, acute. Corolla red, 3-i times as long as the calyx ; standard 

 hairy outside. Pods crowded throughout the length of the rachis, ^-f 

 in , deflesed and curved outwards, distinctly torukse, pointed, hcary 

 pubescent when young. Seeds 6-8. 



Near Delhi (Eoyle), Agra dist. (Munro), Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), 

 Merwara (Duthie). Distrib- Plains of Punjab and Sind, C. and S. 

 India to Ceylon ; also in Java, Baluchistan, Arabia and Trop. Africa. 

 The roots ar;d stems are used medicinally, and the plant has been re- 

 commended as excellent fodder for sheep. 



13. I. Hamiltonii, B. Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5465 ; Luthie 4' Prain in 

 Annals E. Pot. Gard. Calc. IX, part 1, 22, t. 29. I atropnrpurea, F. B. I. 

 ii, 101, in part (not of Ham.). I. juncea. Ham. MSS. {not of Pel.). 



A low undershrub, burnt-down annually by forest fires. Branches 5-8 in. 

 thinly coated with appressed hairs. Leaves 1-2^ in. kng; petioles 

 about i in.; stipules small, caducous; leaflets nsually 3, rarely 6, 

 opposite, f-g- in, long-, ciboTate or oblong, often emarginate, membranous, 

 pale-green sparsely appressed-pubescent on both surfaces ; stipels 

 minute, very caducous. Racemes usually all springing from the woody 

 stock, .^-12 in. long ; 2>edw?(cles rather 'oDg, and with the flowers scat- 

 tered throughout the rachis ; tracts small, lanceolate, caducous, shorter 

 than the pedicels- Calyx very small, broadly campanulate; teeth 

 deltoid. Co?*oila abouti^lin., pale-purple with darker lines. Pod 1-1^ 

 in. long, ligulate, straight, compressed. /Seeds 9-12, lenticular. 



This remarkable plant was first discovered by Puchanan-Hamilton in 

 the Gorakhpur district in 1814, and apparently was not collected again 

 until l^?l, in which year Mr. GoUan collected specimens in Dehra Dun; 

 and in 1^98 some excellent material was obtained by plant-coUe ters 

 of the Saharanpur B ( tanical Department from G( rakhpur as well as 

 from the Kheri district of N- Ondh Hamilton's specimens, which 

 have no leaves, were referred in the Fl. Brit- Ind to i. atropurpurea, 

 with the flowers of which those of Hamilton's plant closely agree, but 

 the very different leaves bracts and pods of 1. Ba'miltonii poin^ 



