Hamilton's Indigo is a shrub or undershrub, with
branches thinly velvet-hairy. Leaf are compound, about 2.5-6.5 cm long,
leaf-stalk about 1.2-1.3 cm long. Leaflets are mostly 3-5, rarely
11-13, about 1-2 cm long, obovate, oblong, often emargintate, sparesly
appressed velvet-hairy on both surfaces; stipules minute falling off.
Flowers are borne in long racemes, usually from woody branches, about
20-30 cm long. Bract small falling off, shorter than flower-stalk.
Sepal-cup small, teeth triangular, smaller than cup. Flowers are purple
with darker lines, about 8-9 mm long. Fruit is about 2.5-3.8 cm long
straight, 9-12-seeded. Hamilton's Indigo is found in the Himalayan
foothills, at altitudes of about 100m m.
Flowering: March-April.
Identification credit: J.M. Garg
Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh.
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