PLATE 28.
28, INDIGOFEKA BELLA Pram in Jo urn. As. Soc. Bcng. Ixvi. 2. 355 (1897).
2^atural order Lcgumiiiosce.
A shrub, 8 - 1 2 feet high, branches long, virgatc, slender, glabrous, slightly 4-angIed;
leaves odcl-pinuate, leaflets 7—9, lai-ge, 8 cm. long, 4-o cm. wide, ovate-acute, ai)iculate,
quite glabrous above, very sparsely puberulons and gkucous beneatli, ri<^idly chartaceous'
-v'ems 1 0 - 1 2 pairs, slender but rather conspicuous beneath; stipules linear, doeiduou«'
2 mm. long, stipcls setaceous sabpersistent; leaf-raehis deeply channelled above, 10—12
cm. long, pctiolules 5 mm. long; racemei axillary, 10-20 cm. long, bccomin-^ bar^
at base but not truly peduncled, copiously close-iiowered; flowers shortly pedrcelledcah/
z campannlate, 3 mm. long, teeth short, deltoid; corolla wjiite, 1-5 cm Joii"'
«laiidard thinly pubescent externally twice as long as broad, claw siicit base truncate
apex obtuse, wiags lanceolate; pod 5 cm. long, cylindric with tidckenoi sutures 4 mm
fliick, glabrous, tip very abruptly upturned; seeds many, tesKaroid, 2 mm. lont' Vo nam'
wide and thick, testa reddish-brown.
BUKMA : Myingyia Hills; Pra3'.r.' Hills; Praur ! Pegu • K^rz !
A very handsome species that ought to prove welcome wli^n introduced into
gardens. Its nearest ally is a Chinese plant (ZZCT;'// n. 38(55) which does not appear
to liave received a name.
PL4TE SS.-Indigofera bella Praw. 1, portion of branch from flowermg BpscimPn from Eaky
nills, Upper Burma,—(>/• mtaral sh]; 2, calyx, laid opon x 2; 3, sfcindard x 2; 4, Winn's x 5
keel X 2; 6 aud 7, staminal sheath and venllary stamen x 2; 8, oyary x 2 ; 9, portion' of branclTfroni
specimen in fruit, from South iiyingjia mils,—of naittral size; 10, seed x 4,
D. P.
29. INDIGOFERA HAIIILTONII Grah. in WaU. Cat. 5405 (1830).
Mtural order Leguminosa?.
A low undershrub, burnt .lown annually by the forest fires, branches 5 - 8 in.,
thinly coated with adpressed hairs; leaoes 2-5—6-5 cm. long, leaflets obloivr. usually
rarely 5, opposite except the terminal, 1 - 5 - 2 cm. long, l - l - , 5 cm. wide, membranon/
pale-green, sparsely adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces, petiole l-.j cm. lon.r and racliin
^'labrous, stipules small, lanceolato, caducous; petiolules 2-5 mm., stipels minute subulate
very caducous; ra^^m« usually all springing from the woody stock, clustered, rather lon<r'
pedimcled, 20—30 cm. long, flowers throughout scattered, bracts caducous, lanceolate smJl
shorter than the very short psdicels; cal¿/3; 2 mm. long, obliquely wide-campanulate teeth
wide-deltoid; corolla under 1 cm. long, pale-purple with darker lines; pííí iigulate stmi'cl.f
not turgid, 9 - 1 2 seeded, 3-5 cm. long, 4 mm. ^vide, 2 mm. thick; sublunticular
compressed. I. atropurpúrea in nook. f . Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 101 (187G) ia virl
not of Ham. I. júncea Bam. MSS. not of Del. } r ,
N. W. PROVINCES: Gorakhpur; IlamtUon in Wall. Cat. 5465! Dulhic's
Oudh. Kheri; DutUei Collector I (Herb. Saharanpur nn. 21518 21519 215'>0 )
This very interesting plant was first collected in the Gorakhpur Dist. by Buchanan-
Hamilton in 1814, but was not again communicated till re-discovered by the Saharanpur
Collectors in 1898 both in Gorakhpur and in Kheri. Hamilton's spocimon-s which
have no leaves, were referred by Baker to I. atropurpúrea, with the flowers of which
those of Hamilton's plant closely agree. Kurz, however, from a MSS. reference iu
Herb. Calcutta, was unable to agree ^vith Baker's reduction, and the fine suites of
specimens obtained in 1898 show that the reduction is at least premature; Duthie's
nn. 21518 and 21519 are both exactly like Hamilton's original specimens; his n. 215-20
has longer leafy stems about I'S ft. high with the uppermost leaves with 5 leaflets
and with racemes in the axils of these leaves that have rather longer peduncles than
tho racemes springing close from the ground.
This plant adds another to the interesting group including Growia sapid't lioxb. {G. nana
Wall.), Combretnm namm Ham,, Erythrina resupinata Roxb., and others of the same habit,
that are burnt down annually by forest fires; it may be that all of them are only modified
forms of specics which, when allowed to grow freely, have quite another habit and
bear another name. In this case, however, it is too soon yet to say what the actual
species may be; in any case, to judge from tho different bracts and fruits and the leave«
with much fewer leaflets, that species would appear not to be I. atropurpúrea.
PLATE 29.—Indigofera Hamiltonii Orah. 1, flowering plant from Marba in the Kheri dist.,
Oudh; 2, plant in fruit from Shurpur in the Gorakhpur dist.,—of nntural size; 3, flower; 4, standard;
5, S', "wiogs; 6, keel; 7, 8, stamens,—all nometc/iai enlarged; 9, pod, opened,—of natural sise; 10,
eeod; 11, embryo—ejeci.
J . P . D . ; D. P. •
PLATE SOSO,
MILLETTIA ÜNIFOLIATA Prain in Joum. As. Soc. Benff. Ixvi. 2. 93 (189T).
Natural order Leguminosce.
A handsome spreading tree, 30—40 f t . high, trunk 1 ft. in diam., branches glabrous ;
haves consisting of a solitary terminal leaflet, petiolulate, ex-stipellate, obovate-oblong
or lanceolate, entire, apex acute rarely caudate, base cuneate, tiiickly membranous, shinin^^
above, dull beneath, midrib prominent beneath, main-nerves 6—9 p:iirs, ascending, hardly
more prominent than the distinct secondary nervation; glabrous, p)tiolule 6 mm. long,
directly articulating with branch; racemes in very slender axillary panicles, shorter than
the leaflets, 7-5—10 cm. long, 6—10 mm. across; individual racemes short, 3—5-fld.,
separated from each other by intervals 2'5 cm. long; peduncles and pedicels glabrous;
calyx 5 mm. long, glabrous externally, campanulate, 2-bracteolatc at base, bracteolea
minute, ovate-lanceolate, teeth hirsute within, shorter than tube ; corolla pure white,
2 cm long, standard orbicular, 2-auriculate at base of kmina, glabrous externally ; siamcns
monadelphous in a sheath split along the vexillary side; ovarij puberulous; pod linear,
15 cm. long, 2'5 cm. wide, flat, rather woody, tapering to both ends, finely pale yellowibh
velvoty externally. Ki'aunhia unifoliata Prain Mss.
MAI.AYAN PENINSULA: Perak; very common; Curtis! Scorteehini! Wray ! Künstler!
Closely related to M. albißora, but differing from all the lithertc known Millettias
in having 1-foliolafe lenves.