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LEGUMINOS^. LXXIX. Indigofera. 



reflexed. ©• S. Native of Senegal, on plains near Richard-Tole. 

 Flowers red. Habit nearly like that of /. psoraleoides^ but 

 differs in the leaves being pinnate. 



Rough Indigo. PL 1 foot. 



94 I. Jamaice'^nsis (Spreng. syst. 3. p. 277.) herbaceous ; 



102 I. PENTAPHYLLA (Lin. S 



depressed ; leaves with 2 pairs of oval leaflets : peduncles 2^ 

 flowered. Q.S. Native of ? 



Flowers red. 



Very hke the preceding species. 



103 L 



ijletted 



PI. prostrate. 



(Forsk 



leaves with 3 pairs of oblong, mucronate leaflets, and are as 



well as the erect angular branches beset with adpressed p. 5Q,^ stem suffruticose, prostrate ; 



137. Vahl. 



bristly hairs ; racemes straight, exceeding the leaves ; legumes 

 reflexed, almost terete. ©. S. Native of Jamaica. Flowers 



red. 



Jamaica Indigo. PI. 1 foot. 

 95 



symb. 1. 

 branches terete, clothed 



with hoary villi ; leaves with 2 pairs of obcordate, mucronate 



leaflets 



racemes longer than the leaves 



T2. S. 



legumes pendulous, 

 Native of Arabia and 



oblong, torulose, 2-seeded. 



eastern Asia. Mart. acad. mon. 6. p. 189. The whole plant 

 I. spica'ta (Forsk. descr. 13. Vahl. symb. 1. p. 56.) is very villous. Flowers red. Perhaps only a variety of A 



stem herbaceous, decumbent, villous ; leaves with 4 pairs of enneaphylla. 



obovate villous leaflets, outer ones largest ; stipulas lanceolate- 



/3 



h . G. Native of Persia. L 



subulate, dry; spikes longer than the leaves; legume terete, argentea, Burm. fl. ind. 171. but not of Lin. Coronilla Persica 



torulose, pendulous. 

 Allied to L hirsuta. 



Native of Arabia Felix. Flowers red. argentea, Garcin. in herb. Burm. 



^joica/e-flowered Indigo. PL decumbent. 



96 I. scA^BRA (Roth, nov. spec. 359.) the whole plant is 

 scabrous from adpressed strigae : stem erect, tetragonal ; leaves 

 with 4 pairs of oval, mucronate leaflets ; racemes elongated, 

 loose, exceeding the leaves ; legume pendulous, a little arched, 



strigose, and somewhat tetragonal. ©.? S. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



Scabrous Indigo. PI. 1 foot. 



97 I. microca'rpa (Desv. journ. hot. 1814. 1. p. 79.) stem? ; 

 leaves with 4 pairs of leaflets, covered with white hairs; racemes 

 shorter than the leaves ; legume very short, white, 2-seeded. 

 Native of Brazil. 



Small-fruited Indigo. PI. ? 



§ 4. Brachypodce (from /^pax^c, hrachys^ short, and Trove 

 troloQf pons j)odos, a foot ; in reference to the petioles being very 

 short). D. C.prod. 2. p. 229. Leaves impari-pinnate ; leaflets 

 approximate. Petioles very short, 



98 I, FRA^ grans (Retz, obs. 4. p. 29.) stems terete, rather 

 pilose ; leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of leaflets ; leaflets ovate, ter- 

 minal one obovate and larger ; racemes longer than the leaves, 

 8-5-flowered ; legume linear, tetragonal. Ij . S. Native of the 

 East Indies. — Pluk. phyt. t. 166. f. 1. Flowers red. 



/Vagraw/ Indigo. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1816. PI. 1 foot. 



99 I. pusi'lla (Lam. diet. 2. p. 248.) stems terete, beset with 

 a few adpressed strigae ; leaflets 3 or 4, alternate, oval, clothed 

 beneath with white hairs, terminal one oblong and longer ; 

 racemes a little longer than the leaves, few-flowered ; legume 

 deflexed, linear, rather terete, 4-6-seeded, hardly puberulous. 

 ©• ? S, Native of Madagascar and the Island of Bourbon. I. 

 tenella, Vahl. mss. Flowers red. 



Half. 



Shrub prostrate. 



104 I. pu'lchra (Willd. spec. 3. p. 1239.) stems frutlcose; 

 branches terete, hairy ; leaves with 1 to 3 pairs of oblong, acute, 

 villous leaflets, those on the branches are sometimes simple; 

 racemes ovate, villous, with rufous hairs, length of leaves, ter- 

 minal, somewhat capitate ; legume oblong, hairy, 2-3-seeded. 

 ^2 . S. Native of Guinea. I. ferruglnea, Thonn. in herb. Puer, 

 I. rufescens, Poir. suppl. 3. p. 148. Flowers red. 



Fair Indigo. Shrub 1 foot. 



105 I. minia'ta (Ort. dec. 98.) stems herbaceous, procum- 

 bent, and are as well as the leaves clothed with adpressed silky 

 pubescence ; leaves with 2-3 pairs of oblong-linear leaflets; 

 racemes pedunculate, longer than the leaves ; legumes linear, 

 tetragonal, 4-seeded. 

 milion-coloured. 



O. S, Native of Cuba. Flowers ver 



FerwiViow-flowered Indigo. PI. procumbent. 

 106 I. cYTisoiDES (Thunb, prod. 133.) stem shrubby, erect; 

 branches angular, and are as well as the leaves clothed with 

 fine adpressed pubescence ; leaves with 2 or 3 pairs of oblong, 

 mucronate leaflets ; racemes twice the length of the leaves; 

 legumes somewhat cylindrical, and somewhat torulose. I?' ^' 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Jacc[. hort. schoenbr. 

 t. 2^5. Curt. hot. mag. 742. I. mucronata, Lam. diet. 3. f 



Psoralea cytisoides, Lin. spec. 1076.— Pluk. phyt. 1. 185. 

 Racemes sometimes terminal from the abortive brancnei 



Flowers rose- 



247. 

 f. 5. 



Bracteas ovate, mucronate, large, deciduous. 



coloured. Calyx hoary. _. 



Cytisus4ike Indigo. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1774, Sh. 3 to5lt. 



107 I. lotoIdes (Lam. diet. 3. p. 247.) stem shrubby, erect; 



anches terete, clothed with hoary pubescence ; leaves witn 



Small Indigo. 



PL prostrate ? 



branches icicit:, uiumeu. wilu iioary uuuc&v;cn^^t , *v-m- — 



pairs of lanceolate, velvety leaflets ; racemes longer than t 



' ' ' ' legume linear, a little arched, yelvej 



G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope- 



leaves 



calyx 

 rather torulose. 



short 



h 



cuneated leaflets 



100 I. gla'bra (Lin. spec. 1062.) stem herbaceous, smoothish ; 

 leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of obovate leaflets, which are smooth 

 above and pubescent beneath ; racemes few-flowered, length of 

 leaves; legumes horizontal, glabrous, terete, acute. 0, H. 

 Native of the East Indies. — Pluk. aim. t. 166. f. 1. Branches 

 with a few long hairs. Stipulas setaceous. Flow^ers red. 



Glabrous Indigo. Fl July, Aug. Clt. 1820. PI. 1 ft. ? orpr. 



101 I. enneapht'lla (Lin. mant. 272.) stem herbaceous, 

 procumbent, pubescent; branches compressed; leaves with 3-5 

 pairs of obovate-oblong, approximate leaflets ; racemes sessile, with white 



Comm. hort. 2. t. 84! Flowers red. Very like the preccdiog 



Fl. July, Aug. 



Clt. 1800. Sh. 2 to 3 ft 

 Pers. ench. no. 40./ 



species, 



Lotus-like Indigo. 



108 L NIGRICANS (Vahl. in herb. Juss. ^ ^-"- — .. 

 stem much branched, twiggy ; leaves with 2 pairs ol h" 



; flowers panicled; legume short, st^g . 

 0. ? S. Native of Guinea. Allied to /. pulchra- but cline 

 in the pedicels rising from the axils of the sup 

 solitary, 1 -flowered, and therefore constituting a ^^^^^^"""^^^ 

 nicle. Stems, pedicels, petioles, and under surface of leaves 



hite strig«. Legume oval, 2-3-seeded, clotheu 



leave?! 



length of leaves ; legume strajght, somewhat tetragonal, 2- brown villi. Flowers purple. 



Blackish Indigo. P). 1 foot. 



seeded. Q.S. Native of the East Indies. 



tratuin, Burm. ind. t. 55. f. 1. 



Hedysarum pros- 

 Pluk. aim. t. 166. f. 2. Sti- 



109 



pulas membranous, dilated at the base, acuminated at the apex. 

 Corolla dark purple. 



Nine-leafletted Indigo. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1776. PI. pr. 



I. CAP.LLA^Ris (Thunb. prod. 133. fl. cap. ^'''^■[.^ $ 

 suffruticose ; branches slender, terete, glabrous ; 1«^^'^^, fl^y: 

 or 3 pairs of filiform, acute, glabrous, approxmiate Je ^ 

 racemes pedunculate, much longer than the leaves. 



