Botanical Name - Flemingia congesta

----- F. congesta Roxb. ; F.B.I. II-228. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 232. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 246. Vern. Dandola, Mar.

----- An erect undershrub 4-6 ft. high ; branches slightly ribbed. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; petiole 2-4 in. long, flattened. Leaflets 4-6 by 2-3 in., ovate or oblong-lanceolate, glabrous above with brown or ruby-coloured glandular dots, and pubescent and hairy along the nerves beneath. Bracts lanceolate, not folded. Flowers about 1/2 in. long in dense racemes 1-2 in. long, sessile, grey-silky ; Bracts lanceolate, 1/8 - 1/4 in. long, deciduous. Calyx 1/4 - 3/8 in. densely clothed with adpressed shining pale brown silky hairs ; teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla scarcely exserted. Pod 1/3 - 1/2 in. long, swollen, 2-seeded, obscurely downy ; seeds 1/10 in. diam., shining brown or blue-black.

----- Common in the underwood in most forests. It gives the " Waras " dye, resembling " Kamila," which is obtained from the glands or hairs on the pods.