Tas. 5063. 
INDIGOFERA pecora. 
Comely Indigo-plant. 
Nat. Ord. Lecumtnos®.—D1apELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquefidus, lobis acutis. Vevil/um rotundatum, emar- 
ginatum. Carina utrinque calcare subulato notata, demum spe elastice deflexa. 
Stamina diadelpha. Stylus filiformis, glaber. Zegumen teretiusculum aut planum 
aut tetragonum, polyspermum, bivalve, rarius oligospermum, ovatum, imo mono- 
spermum, subglobosum. Semina ovata, utrinque truncata, isthmis cellulosis sepe 
disjuncta.—Herbe aut suffrutices ; stipule a petiolo distincte, parve. Peduneuli 
avillares. Flores racemosi, purpurei cerulei aut albi. Folia nunc simplicia (pin- 
nata ad impar reducta), impari-pinnata aut digitata, foliolis swpe basi stipellatis. 
Pili nunc omnes, nunc plerique strigosi, centro adfixi, adpressi. De Cand. 
Inpicorera decora ; fruticosa glabra glaucescens, foliis pinnatis, petiolis 2-5- 
jugis exacte ovatis obtusis cum mucrone subtus pilis sparsis peltatis obsitis, 
racemis elongatis densis folia subequantibus, calyce hemisphzrico quin- 
quedentato, carinse margine superiore villoso. Lindl, : 
Inpigorera decora. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 1. p. 68. Bot. Reg 
t. 22. 
; o. Be. 
A most lovely and ornamental greenhouse plant, by no means 
so generally seen in our collections as it deserves to be ; a native 
of China, and cultivated in the gardens of Shanghai, whence Mr. 
Fortune introduced it to the Horticultural Society of London. 
It flowers early in the season, and a cool greenhouse is rendered 
quite gay with its blossoms, which are of a lively pink and rose- 
colour, arranged in long, erect racemes; add to which the leaves 
are pinnated and of the most delicate green. 
Descr. A shrub, or small but straggling bush, the branches 
needing support. Indeed it does best trailed against the wall, 
or on a rafter, treated as a half-climber. Branches slender, terete, 
tinged with red. Zeaves a span long, pinnated, with an odd 
one. Pinne six to eight pairs, broad lanceolate, sie 
drooping, slightly villous beneath, with hairs fixed by the middle ; 
& pair of distinct s/ipules at the base of the petioles, and — 
ones at the base of the short petiolules. Aacemes elongated, 
axillary, solitary, as long as or longer than the leaves, bearing 
JULY Ist, 1858. 
