1744 
* INDIGÓFERA atropurpúrea. 
Purple-flowered Indigo plant. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminos# Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 86.) 
INDIGOFERA.—Supra, vol. 5. fol. 386. 
I. atropurpurea ; fruticosa, erecta, foliis 5-6-jugis, foliolis oblongis obtusissimis 
apiculatis tenuibus glabris, racemis multifloris foliis aequalibus v. longioribus, 
leguminibus linearibus rectis acustriatis 8-9-spermis. 
I. atropurpurea Hamilt. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. 3. 380. Wall. Cat. No, 5463. 
A native of Nepal, where it was originally found by Ha- 
milton; probably in the hot valleys ; for it does not succeed 
well, unless cultivated in the stove. There it becomes a 
handsome light green bush, richly ornamented by its nu- 
merous bunches of purple and crimson flowers. If planted 
in the open air, it languishes even on a south wall and in 
such a season as that of 1834; producing its blossoms in 
small quantities and imperfectly. 
Our specimens were communicated in August, 1833, from 
the hothouse of James Bateman, Esq. of Knypersley. 
Roxburgh says, that when raised in the Botanic Garden 
at Caleutta, it grew from 3 to 5 feet high in about 8 months. 
* Literally Indigo-bearer ; some species of this genus producing the dye of 
that name. 
