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AMORPHA fruticosa 



Wild Indigo. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leouminosje. Jussieu gen. 345. Dm ^/^Papiliomace*. 

 Brown in dpp. to Plind. vvy* % 552. 



AMOKPHA. Cat. 5-dentatus* Vex. oratum concavum; uhs nulls 



nee carina. Stam. basi monadelpha* Legum. minimum ovatum tubercular 



turn dispermura* (Corolla monopetala in Lkouminosis peculiar!*). Just* 



I* e* 357. Frutices suffruticesve: fol. pinttata, (pellucenti~) glandufosai 



stipulse setacea, mhiuta, turn ptvrtiates turn generates, djblhs et Jbliotis 



distinct*: flores spicati, numerosi. parvi f sopites corutei; spcas smtaria-, 



a Mg re g at ^ & terminates: legumen ghndulosum: stylus pubescent: stigma 

 glabrvrn. Nuttall gen* 2. 91 ; (ex anglico). 



A. Jruticosa, glabra, subarborescens; foliis petiolatis, apicta aggregate 

 elongatis, calycibus nudiuscuMs pediceliatis, deniibm 4 obtusis, unico 

 acuminata, legumintbus oligospermia. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 466. 



Amorpha fruticosa* Lin. sp.pL ed. 2.2. 1003- Mill. diet. ed. 8. Duhaw 

 arb. 1. 46- tab. 16. Walt. card. 179. Schmidt arb. I. 28. *. 30. 

 Michaux bor. amer. 2. 64. i£i?rt. Kew. 3. 17* «/• 2. 4. 265. Sckkuhr 

 handb.191. WiUd. sp. pi. 3. 970. Nuttall gen. 2. 91 . 



Amorpha. J/otf. c/f#J 353. /. 19. Mill* ic. 18. *. 27. 



Pseudo-acacia virgwiana non spinosa. Probst kort. botian* 17.37. 39; ram 

 icone. 



Barba jo vis a men cans, pseuda-acaciae flosculis purpureas minimis. Hort. 

 anj?L 11- 1* 4. 



rulgans. (ex) foliis mucronatis, calycibus glabris. Pursh. 



emarginata, 02) foliis emarginatie calycibus cams* Pursh. 



angustifolia. (y) foliis Hneari-eliipttcis basi subacutis. Pursh. 



A North American genus, remarkable among its papili- 

 onaceous co-ordinates for a corolla of one petal ; the vexil- 

 lum alone being present, while the alee and carina are en- 

 tirely wanting. 



The present species belongs to Carolina and Florida, 

 where it is known by the name of " Wild Indigo; an in- 

 ferior kind of blue dye having been formerly made by the 

 inhabitants from the young shoots. Introduced in 1724, by 

 Mr. Mark Catesby. The drawing was taken this summer, 

 at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chel- 

 sea. It is cultivated in the open ground, and flowers about 

 June in favourable seasons. 



The following description is chiefly from the french of 

 the Chevalier Lamarck in his Encyclopedic Botanique. 



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