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INDIGOFERA endecaphylla. 
Eleven-leaved Guinea Indigo. 
— dig 
DIADELPHIA DECANDATLA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. VI. Corolla irregu- 
laris papilionacea. Stamina 10 diadelpha. Legumen uniloculare (in Astra- 
galo et Biserrula biloculare) bivalve. Herbe aut frutices aut arbuscule ; 
gr impari-pinnata.—PAPILIONACE®. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 
2. 552. 
INDIGOFERA. Supra in appendice Voluminis 3. 
1. endecaphylla, foliis pinnatis, folis 11 oblongis, glabris, apice muerona- 
tis; stipulis subulatis; floribus spicatis axillaribus; leguminibus angulo- 
sis reflexis villosis; caule herbaceo, basi prostrato. Palissot de Beau- 
vois fl. d'Oware et de Benin. 2. 44. tab. 84. 
Indigofera endecaphylla. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. tab. 570. collect. 2. 358. Willd. 
sp. pl. 3. 1233. 
Radix ramosa, longa, calamum crassa, albida, et annua, caules promit 
plures prostratos in ambitum bipedales calamo graciliores teretes glabros, 
infernè ramosos virides. Folia sunt alterna, bifaria patentissima; pinnata 
ex foliolis utrinque quinis cum terminali impari, obverse ovatis, obtusis in- 
tegerrimis, brevissimé petiolatis, alternis, suprà virentibus, dorso pallidi- 
oribus, ad oculum armatum obductis utrinque setulis albidis et decumbentibus. 
Spice axillares unciales solitarie pedunculate, erecte compacte oblonge. 
Pedicelli proprie minuti. Perianthium villosum. Corolla saturate rubra. 
Vexillum ad unguem puncta alba gerit. Ale plane cum intermedia carina 
antrorsàm porriguntur. Vexillum erigitur, supra unguem reflexum. Legu- 
mina fusca rectiuscula 4-gona, villosale, stylo persistente acuminata, uncia- 
lia, pendula: semina plura reniformia nitida cinerea reliqua in charactere 
generico congruunt omnimodò cum INDIGOFERA dendroidi. Jacq. l. c. 
The species was observed by M. Palissot de Beauvois, 
in the territories of Oware and Benin, on the coast of 
Africa. It is one of those represented by a coloured plate 
in the costly publication of that traveller, and supposed to 
be the plant that affords the dye used by the negroes of 
those regions to colour the calico for their principal gar- 
ment (called by the French pagne). 
We owe the introduction of it into this country to Mr. 
George Don, a skilful and assiduous collector in the ser- 
vice of the Horticultural Society. It flowered this summer 
in the garden at Chiswick, where the drawing was taken. 
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