Indigofera tinctoria L.

Indigofera tinctoria L Sp. PI. 751. 1753
Indigofera tinctoria macrocarpa DC. Prodr. 2: 224, in part. 1825. Anila tinctoria normalis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 160. 1891.
A shrub, 1-2 m. high; branches terete or slightly angled, more or less strigose; stipules subulate-setaceous, 2-3 mm. long; leaves 5-10 cm. long, spreading; leaflets 9-15, distinctly petioluled, obovate or oval, rounded and mucronate at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, 1-2.5 cm. long, 6-15 mm. wide, usually glabrous above, strigose beneath; racemes 3-7 cm. long, usually shorter than the leaves; calyx 1.5 m. long; corolla reddish-yellow, 5-6 mm. long; wings spatulate; pod linear-cylindric, usually 3-3.5 cm. long, 2 mm. broad, slightly curved towards the apex, 8-12-seeded; seeds 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. thick.
Tvpe locality: India.
Distribution: Subtropical Florida; West Indies; escaped from cultivation and naturalized; native of southern India.

Indigofera sumatrana Gaertn. Fruct 2:317 1791
Indigofera indica Lam. Encyc. 3: 245. 1789. Not /. indica Mill. 1768.
Indigofera tinctoria I.unan, Hort. Jam. 1: 419. 1814.
Indigofera tinctoria macrocarpa DC. Prodr. 2: 224, in part. 1825.
A shrub, 1-2 m. high; branches somewhat angled, strigose; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; leaves 5-8 cm. long, spreading; leaflets 7-11, distinctly petioluled, obovate, rounded and mucronate at the apex, cuneate or acute at the base, 1-2.5 cm. long, strigose on both sides; racemes 3-8 cm. long; calyx 1.5 mm. long, strigose; corolla reddish-orange, 5 mm. long; pod 3-4 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, sickle-shaped, abruptly acute, S-12-seeded; seeds 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. thick.
Type locality: (Not given, but by inference) Sumatra.
Distribution: Jamaica to Virgin Islands and St. Kitts; also in Venezuela; cultivated and naturalized; native from northern India to Formosa and the Dutch East Indies.