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INDIGOFERA decöra. 
The comely Indigo. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
544). ord. FABACEX. | (LEGUmrNovs PLANTS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 544. 
INDIGOFERA. L. 
I. decora; fruticosa, glabra, glaucescens, foliis pinnatis, petiolis 2-5-jugis 
exactě ovatis obtusis c. mucrone subtus pilis sparsis peltatis obsitis, 
racemis densis foliis duplò brevioribus, calyce plano membranaceo 5- 
dentato, vexillo oblongo, carine margine superiore villoso.—Lindley in 
Journal of Horticultural Society, vol. 1. p. 68. 
This is a very pretty bush, received by the Horticultural 
Society from Mr. Fortune, who found it cultivated in the 
nursery gardens at Shanghai, and calls it a dwarf shrub. 
The climate of Shanghai is so cold in winter, that it may be 
a question whether this species may not prove hardy: but at 
present it is too rare to be made the subject of experiments. 
It is thus described in the Journal of the Horticultural 
Society :— 
* A dark-green handsome bush, with somewhat glaucous 
branches. The leaves are pinnate in from two to five pairs 
and an odd one, quite smooth on the upper side, but slightly 
covered on the under side with very fine hairs, attached by 
their middle; the leaflets are exactly ovate, with a short 
bristle at their end, between one and a half and two inches 
long, of a very dark green colour; and to each pair there are 
two short bristle-like stipules. The flowers grow from the 
axils of the leaves in horizontal racemes much shorter than 
the leaves themselves; they are of a light rose colour and 
very handsome. The calyx is a flat membranous five-toothed 
cup, with the two upper teeth very far apart. The standard 
of the corolla is oblong, nearly flat, very slightly keeled 
behind, nearly white, but pencilled with delicate crimson lines 
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