LEGUMINOS^. LXXIX. Indigofera. 



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(ex descr.) glabrous (ex icon.). 0.? S. Native of the Indies. fl. d'ow. 2. t. 84. Flowers rose-coloured. The plants of this 

 Trew. ehret. t. 55, Flowers rose-coloured. 



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Tivo-seeded Indigo. PL 1 foot. 



79 I. fu'sca; stem erect, beset with long brown hairs; leaves 

 with 2 or 3 pairs of cuneated, mucronate, pilose leaflets ; sti- 

 1^^ pulas filiform, also pilose ; spikes or racemes of flowers axillary 

 or lateral ; calyx and legume clothed with fuscous hairs. 0. S. 



species which are cultivated in the gardens are almost smooth, 

 except the under surface of the leaves. 



Eleven-leaflettcd Indigo. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1824. PI. pr. 



86 I. Perrotte'tii (D. C. prod. 2. p. 238.) stems herbaceous, 

 prostrate, young ones compressed, and clothed with villous pu- 

 bescence : leaves with 3 or 4 pairs of oblong-obovate leaflets, 



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u Native of Guinea, among grass. Flowers small, flesh-coloured. clothed on both surfaces with canescent pubescence, besides 



jFw^c(}Z(5-haired Indigo. Fl. July, Aug. 



80 I. HiRSu^TA (Lin. spec- 1062. but not of Jacq.) stem suf- 

 j^ fruticose, erect ; branches terete, and are as well as the petioles 

 and peduncles hairy ; leaves with S-5 pairs of obovate- oblong, 

 obtuse leaflets, which are villous on both surfaces ; racemes 

 longer than the leaves ; legumes tetragonal, 6-seeded, pendulous, 

 hairy. Tj . S. Native of the East Indies and Guinea. Lam. 

 ill. t. 626. f.3. I. rndica, Mill. diet. no. 4. but not of Lam. 



Clt. 1823. PI. 1 ft. being dotted beneath; racemes crowded with flowers, shorter 



than the leaves ; legumes oblong, terete, straight, pubescent, 

 S-4-seeded. - ^ -- - - ~ - - . -, 





0. ? S. Native of Senegal. 

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I. prostr^ta, Perr. 



Very like /. enneaj^hjlla, but the 

 petioles are longer, the stipulas linear-subulate, and the legume 

 3-4-seeded. Flowers red. 



PerrotieVs Indigo. PI. prostrate. 



87 I. SESSiLirLORA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 228.) stem herbaceous, 



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pie or red. 

 Hairy Indigo. Fl. July, Aug. Clt-1823. PL 1 foot. 



leaves clothed with adpressed silky pubescence ; leaflets 3 or 4 

 pairs, obovate ; spikes crowded with flowers, sessile in the axils 



811. ASTRAGALiNA (D. C, prod. 2. p. 228.) stem herbaceous, of the leaves, and shorter than them ; legume terete, pubescent, 



erect, rough from simple hairs ; leaves having 4 pairs of obovate, 

 very obtuse leaflets, which are villous on both surfaces and white 



beneath ; racemes shorter than the leaves ; legume tetragonal, Sessile-Jl 



straight, 4-6-seeded. 0. S. Native of Senegal, 

 pie, cylindrical, rather fusiform. Flowers red. 



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PI. 1 foot. 



pendulous, very hairy, 2.seeded. G. S. Native of Senegal. 

 Astragalus, Perr. in htt. 1825. This species is very nearly 

 allied to the preceding, but the hairs on the upper surface of the 

 leaves are axlpressed and scarcely or not bifurcate. Flowers red. 



Milk-vetch'Uke Indigo. PL 1 foot. 



82 I, Senegale'nsis (Lam. diet. 3. p. 248.) stem herbaceous, 



88 I. a'nceps (Vahl. in Poir. suppl. 3. p. 117.) stems herba- 

 ceous, compressed, 2-edgcd, glabrous; leaflets 9 or 11, alter- 

 nate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smoothish ; racemes longer than 

 the leaves ; legumes pendulous, linear, compressed, acute, pu- 

 berulous, 8-10-seeded. ©. S. Native of Guinea. Flowers 

 rose-coloured. 



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decumbent; branches slender, angular; leaves with from 1-3 Two-edged-stemmed Indigo. PL prostrate. 



pairs of leaflets ; leaflets oblong, beset w^ith adpressed bristly 



hairs on both surfaces ; racemes longer than the leaves ; legumes 



pendulous, much compressed, puberulous, oblong, mucronate, 



3"4-seeded. 0. S, Native of Senegal. I. tetrasperma, Vahl. 



ex herb. Juss. Habit of a species of E'rvum. This is a very 



distinct species. Flowers red. 



Senegallxid:\go. PL procumbent. 



83 I.paWla (Gailliaud, voy. mer. part. bot. t. 3. f. 1.) 

 branches diffuse ; leaves pinnate, with 2 or 3 pairs of obovate, 

 grey leaflets ; stipulas awl-shaped ; spike of flowers about equal 

 in length to the leaves. 0. F. Native of Nubia. 



Least Indijzo. PL diffuse. 



Native of the Cape of 



Flowers red. 



84 I. tiNEA^Ris (D. C. prod. 2. p. 228.) stems herbaceous, 

 rather diffuse ; branches slender, angular ; leaves having 1 or J<J 

 pa^rs of linear leaflets, which are beset with adpressed bristly 

 nairs on both surfaces ; racemes rather longer than the leaves ; 

 egumes pendulous, linear, mucronate, straight, much com- 

 pressed, scabrous, and puberulous, 10-12-seeded. ©. S. Na- 

 tive of Senegal. Flowers red. 



/-inear-leafletted Indi*ro. 



Sd I. alte'rnans (D. C. prod, 2. p. 229.) branches fdiform, 

 and are as well as the leaves clothed with adpressed, bristly 

 hairs; leaflets 7-11, alternate, obovate, or oblong, a httle mu- 

 cronulate ; racemes longer than the leaves ; calycine lobes end- 

 each in a setaceous acumen, about equal in length to the 

 corolla ; legumes reflexed. Ii .2 G. 



Good Hope. Burch. cat. no. 2079. Flowers reddish. Perhaps 

 the same as I. jmnctata, Thunb. prod. 133. fl. cap. 599. but 

 there are nothing like dots on the present plant to be seen. 



AlternatingAcQi^Qttcd Indigo. PL 1 foot. 



90 I. Carolinia'na (Walt. car. 187.) stem herbaceous, erect; 

 branches terete ; leaves with 6 or 7 pairs of oval-oblong leaflets, 

 which are slightly covered with adpressed pubescence ; racemes 

 slender. 



longer than the leaves ; leg 



pendulous, usually 2- 



seeded, reticulately veined, 

 from Carolina to Florida. 

 Flowers blue- 



1/ . G. Native of North America, 

 Mich. fl. bor. amer. 2. p. 68. 



Carolinian Indigo. 



PL 1 foot. 



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»o 1. hendecapiiy'lla (Jacq. icon. rar. t. 570. coll. 2. p. 358.) 

 stem herbaceous, pros- r / 



trate;branches terete and 



are as well as the leaves 

 slightly covered with 



cinereous pubescence 



on both surfaces; leaves 



^^th 4-5 pairs of obovate, 

 oblong, cuneated, ob- 



^J*^ leaflets; racemes 

 shorter than the leav 

 legumes reflexed, te- 

 ^ete but slightly tetra- 

 gonal, straight, villous, 

 JU-seeded. ::;. S. Native of Guinea, particularly of Sene- 

 ^ ^^ the island of St. Thomas. Ker. bot. reg. 789. Beau, 



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91 I. Lagasca^na (D. C. prod. 2. p. 229.) stems herbaceous, 

 erect ; branches terete, beset with adpressed bristly hairs, ca- 

 nescent at the apex ; stipulas linear, acuminated, rufous, and 

 scarious ; leaves with 5 pairs of obovate or oblong, mucronate 

 leaflets, young ones clothed on both surftices with adpressed 

 bristly hairs, the adult ones only on the under surface ; racemes 

 pedunculate, longer than the leaves ; legumes reflexed. Native 

 of Peru, at Cheuchim. Flowers red? 



Lagasca's Indigo. PL 1 foot. 



92 I. PLUMosA (Spreng. syst. 3. p. 278.) plant decumbent 

 and villous ; leaflets usually about 8 pairs, spatulate, emarginate ; 

 racemes few-flowered, on long peduncles ; calycine segments at 

 length elongated, very villous and plumose. Q. ? S. Native of? 



Feathery-csdyxed Indigo. PL decumbent. 



93 I. a'sfera (Perr. in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 229.) stem her- 

 baceous, erect, branched ; branches terete ; leaves and peduncles 

 covered with adpressed strigoe ; leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of linear, 

 acute leaflets ; racemes slender, longer than the leaves ; legumes 



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