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THE VEGETATION OF THE DISTRICT OF 
84, Melilotus J.uss, 
137. * Melilotus alba Lamk. 
On moist sand, bank of irawaddy near Semon. 
Distribution. — Peninsular India, N.-W. Himalaya, Upper Gan- 
getic Plain, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Northern and Western 
Asia, Europe. 
85* Indigofera Linn. 
138. # Indigofera minbuensis n. sp. 
A shrub with virgate branches, ridged and furrowed, covered 
with minute adpressed almost scabrid hairs. Leaves pale-green, alter- 
nate, simple, subsessile, linear, acute, mucronulate, 3*8-6 cm. long 
and about 3 mm. broad, with entire margins and covered on both sur- 
faces with minute triangular adpressed scabrid hairs exposing minute 
oblique pits when rubbed off, midrib prominent beneath, white. 
Infloresence of short axillary cymes about i*2-i*8 cm. long. Flowers 
small, calyx covered with minute close adpressed white hairs, 5- 
toothed, 4 posterior minute, setaceous, 1 anterior much larger, lan- 
ceolate, corolla small, seen only in a withered state. Pods deflexedly 
linear cylindrical, mucronulate, about 1*5 cm. long, covered with 
minute adpressed hairs. Seeds about 6. 
Arracan Yomahs 4,000 ft. Shaik Mokim ! 
This species is exceedingly distinct from all other Indian species. 
It appears to come nearest to the African /. simplici/olia Lamk., 
from which it differs in having considerably larger leaves, and shorter, 
stouter and deflexed pods. 
139. Indigofera linifolia Retz. 
Minbu district. 
Distribution. — Throughout India and Burma, in Ceylon, Malay 
Archipelago, Afghanistan, Africa, Australia. 
140. Indigofera enneapliylla Linn. 
Minbu district. 
DISTRIBUTION.*— Throughout India and Burma, in Ceylon, Malay 
Archipelago, Australia, Africa. 
141. Indigofera pentaphylla Linn. 
Sagu. 
Distribution.— -Throughout India and Burma, Ceylon, Tropical 
Africa. 
143. Indigofera viscosa Lamk. 
Sidoktaya. 
Distribution.— Throughout the plains of India and Burma 
Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, Australia, Afghanistan, Africa. 
