LEGUMINOS^. LXXIX. Indigofera. 



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acute. Tj . G. Native of Upper Nipaul, at Suembu, where it is leaflets ; racemes many-flowered, longer than the leaves. Tj . G. 



called Dosi-srva by the Nawaris. Flowers purple. 

 Dosi-swa Indigo. Shrub 2 to 4 feet. 

 47 I. GALEGOiDEs (D. C. prod. 2. p. 225.) stem erect; leaves 



Native of China. Flowers rose-coloured, those on the lower 

 part of the raceme soon falling off in the gardens. 



Long-spiked Indigo. Fl. June, July. Clt. ? Sh. 2 to 3 ft. 



pinnate, having 8 or 9 pairs of elliptic, mucronate leaflets, which 55 I. polyca'rpa (Willd. herb, ex Spreng. syst. 3. p. 276.) 

 are beset with minute pubescence on both surfaces ; racemes shrubby, erect ; leaves with 5 pairs of obovate-oblong leaflets, 

 axillary, one half shorter than the leaves ; legumes erect, straight, which are rather strigose on both surfaces; racemes many- 

 linear, acuminated, compressed, rather callous at the sutures on flowered, about equal in length to the leaves ; legumes reflexed, 

 both sides. 10-12-seeded. Ij . S. Native of Ceylon. Legume tetragonal. f? . S. Native of South America. 



2 inches long and hardly a line broad. 

 Galega-Uke Indigo. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



48 I. cAssioiDEs (Rottl. ex herb. Balb. D. C. prod. 2. p. 225.) 

 ™l|' stem suffruticose, erect; leaves pinnate, having 4 or 5 pairs of 

 elliptic-obovate, retuse, mucronulate leaflets, which are rather 



Many-fi 



Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 



56 L frute'scens (Lin.fil. suppl. 334.) stem shrubby, terete, 



beset with short hairs at the apex, which are fixed by their 



centre, as well as the under side of the leaves ; leaves pinnate, 



with 2 or 4 pairs of obovate-oblong leaflets ; racemes a little 



pubescent on both surfaces ; racemes length of leaves ; legumes longer than the leaves. Tj. G. Native of the Cape oi Good 



~ Flowers red. 



Clt. 1822. Sh. 2 to 3 ft. 

 shrubby, branched, spreading ; leaves 

 with 3 pairs of obovate-oblong, emarginate leaflets; flovvers in 

 axillary and terminal panicles. Fj • S. 



Le- 



Bpreading, rather compressed, glabrous, 10-seeded, with the su- 

 ture thick and prominent on both sides. Tj . S. Native of 

 India, on the Nelh'gery mountains, where it is called Maniligueda, 

 The leaves are nearly like those of a species of Colutea. 

 gttine stiff, an inch long. 



Cassia-like Indigo. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



49 I. cYLiNDRicA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 225.) stem sufFruticose ; 

 leaves pinnate, having 4 or 5 pairs of obovate, obtuse, or emar- 

 gtnate, glabrous leaflets ; racemes longer than the leaves ; le- 

 gumes spreading, ' ' ^ 



Hope. Thunb. fl. cap. 598. 



Shrubby Indigo. Fl. May, Aug. 

 57 I. emargina'ta 



, _ straight, cylindrical, 8-10-seeded, glabrous, 



with the sutures not prominent. 

 Good Hope. Leaves very like those of ColUtea. 



Tj . G. Native of the Cape of 



--J The legume 



almost like that of Calophaca, about an inch long, and about 

 2 or 3 lines in diameter. 



Cylindrical-podded Indigo. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



50 I. ju'ncea (Delaum. herb. amat. t. 227.) stem shrubby, 

 erect, and is as well as the leaves smooth ; petioles elongated, 

 nlitorm, in the young plants the leaves are furnished with 3 or 

 ♦ pairs of obovate-oblong leaflets, but at length almost all 

 nearly leafless ; racemes erect, shorter than the petioles; legumes 

 renexed. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. I. 



aphylla, Link, enum.2. p. 251. 



JJ^^^^^^^ontaminslta, Ait. hort. kew. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 261. but 

 ol Ihunb. Spartium contaminkum, Ait. hort. kew. ed. 1. 

 vol. 3 pi but not of Lin. Flowers purple. 

 ^ushy Indigo. Fl. June, July. Clt. ? Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



teret ^P^*^"^'"^ (Willd. spec. 3. p. 1235.) shrubby ; branches ,..^ ...^.. , ^ 



jj j ^* r^^*^^** P"^escent ; leaves pinnate, having 5-7 pairs of el- obtuse leaflets, which are 



r DtUSe, glabrous leaflpts ? r^nf^mt^tz rfit]^(^r cVinrf-AT fVinn fliP ViPnPatVi * mppmpfi miirh f 



_ . _ _ ^ _ _ _ . . 



Native of Sierra Leone, 

 at the edges of woods. Flowers dark purple. 



Emarginate-leaRetted Indigo. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



58 I. DiVARicA^TA (Jacq. hort. schoenbr. t. 365.) shrubby; 

 branches spreading much, puberulous, sulcated ; leaves pinnate, 

 with 4 or 5 pairs of elliptic-oblong, mucronate leaflets, which are 

 clothed with adpressed pubescence beneath ; racemes shorter 

 than the leaves ; legume spreading, arched upwards, rather 

 tetragonal, and somewhat nodulose, 6-8-seeded. ' ^ . G. Na- 

 tive of? Flowers red. Lower leaves having 2 or 3 pairs of 



leaflets, the upper with 6 or 7 pairs. 



" Fl. July, Aug. Clt.? Shrub 2 



__ ^ t. p. 2i8.) shrubby; branches 



glabrous, compressed, flat ; leaves pinnate, having 1 or 2 pairs 

 of leaflets ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, rather silky, minute ; 

 racemes slender, longer than the leaves, 5-6-flowered; legume 



S. Native of Mada- 



Divaricate-hr^nched Indigo. 

 to 3 feet. 



I. filifolia, Ker. bot. reg. 104. nearly terete, straight, smoothish. ^ 



Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



leaves 



ed. 



gascar. Flowers red. 



Compressed-stemmed Indigo. 



60 I. cinera'sceks (D. C. prod. 2. p. 226.) shrubby ; branches 

 terete, slender, velvety at the apex from cinereous, rufescent, 

 very short down ; leaves pinnate, with 2 or 4 pairs of obovate, 



clothed with cinereous pubescence 



glabrous leaflets ; racemes rather° shorter than the beneath ; racemes much shorter than the leaves, floriferous at 



; legumes spreading, terete, straight, glabrous, 8-IO-seed- the base. 



K;, ^ • ^- Native of New Holland, 

 iver. hot. reg. 365. Flowers rosP-rolo, 



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Native of the Mauritius. 



Lodd. bot. cab. 149. 



Southern Indigo. 

 52 L ^ 



wers rose-coloured. 



Greyish Indigo. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



611. hu'milis (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 454.) 



Fl. Mar. June. Clt. 1790. Sh. 3 to 4 ft. shrubby, procumbent, silvery from silky strigae; leaves pin- 



shrubbv !^^^^'^^^^ (^'e^- Pl- exsic. nov. holl. no. 379.) erect, 

 Pairs nf i ^^a"^ ^^^ branches acutely angled ; leaves with 4-7 



for the m ^^ ^*^^ ' ^^^^^'^ nearly equal, elliptic, quite smooth, 

 or aboiif °X ^^"^^ ^™^'"S'"^t^ ; racemes shorter than the leaves, 

 Hook ; t?^ ^^™^ ^^"S*^- ^ • ^- Native of New Holland. 



'• specidsa F ™^^' ^^^^' ^' ^^S^^^^^> ^^^'^^' ^o*' ^^?- ^^^^• 

 Pumlp A ^^^^''> ™ss. Flowers rose-coloured, inclining to 



nate, having 2 or 4 pairs of oblong, acutish, stiff leaflets ; ra- 

 cemes few-flowered, much exceeding the leaves ; legumes re- 

 flexed, rather terete, straight, usually 2-seeded. ^ . S. Native 

 of Peru, on the mountains near Caxamarca. Flowers red. 



Jm. \^til^\^V\J M^MM^^*^ 



Shrub procumbent. 



53 I. 

 leafless 



»go. Fl. Mar. June. Clt. 1824. Sh. 3 to 8 feet. 



• b ^^ i ' ^" ^°"'^' ^^'■*' ^"*- P* ^^^'^ P^^"* almost 



wlyx VnH '^^"j. '^f terete, mucronate ; racemes axillary ; corolla, 

 Hope' P P^^'^^^s purple. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 nudV'sim^ v*"^^ °"8. in the axils of the branches. Lebeckia 



^'akedj'J^^' "'^^- *• ^^1*- Flowers purple. 



54 I u7r '^"°^' ''"V- Clt. 1816. Shrub 2 to 3 ft. 



'^'eie, clothed°^^-V"T'^ ^^^"^* ™^^"^- *• *'*•) ^^'•"^^y 5 tranches 

 *^i^OT 10 . '^ "'J.^'^Pressed pubescence ; leaves pinnate, hav- 



^01. n. "° ^^^^'°^^°"S> obtuse, mucronate, pubescent 



62 I. TEPHKOSioiDES (H. B. ct Kunth, 1. c. p. 453. t. 580.) 

 shrubby, rather climbing, when young clothed with adpressed, 

 strigose villi ; leaves pinnate, with 6 to 9 pairs of leaflets ; leaf- 

 lets oblong, mucronately awned, clothed beneath with silky 

 and silvery strigae ; racemes on very long peduncles ; legumes' 

 reflexed, pendulous, tetragonal, straight. ^7- S. Native of 

 Quito, near Cuenca. Flowers red. Ova 10 or 12, but the 

 seeds are only 5 or 6, from abortion. 



Tephrosia-lihe Indigo. Shrub 2 to 3 (eet. 



I. Truxille'nsis (H. B. et Kunth, 1. o.) shrubby, much 

 branched; branches clothed with ferruginous striga?; leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets 5 or 6 pairs, oblong, obtuse, mucronate, cu- 

 neated at the base, strigose on both surfaces, but especially on 



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