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_INDIGOFERA PsoRALOIDES. Lono-SpIKED 
| INDIGO. 
HHS HMeb ebb 
eas and Orr. : 
< : ~Draperenia DECANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéer. : e 
Gal. patens. Cor. carina utrinque calcari fubulato patulo. Le- 
_ gumen lineare. — 
S, pecific Charaier and Synonyms. 
INDIGOF ERA p/orajoides foliis ternatis lanceolatis, racemis. - J 
= longiffimis, leguminibus cernuis. Linn. Sy 2 
_ Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 677. Ait. Kew. v. 3. 
Se ees eS 
CYTYSUS pjoraloides. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1043. 
CYTISUS africanus. Riv. Tetr. 71. f.135. gee 
TRIFOLIUM <tbiopicum ex alis fpicatim. Pluk. Phyt. 320. 
onic. ial 
= aS 
=) . 4 5 ae 
The plant here figured is the true Indigof. pforaloides of — 
Linn aus, a native of the Cape, and cultivated by Mr. Mit- | 
LER, in 1758; there is another fpecies fomewhat fimilar to — 
it, of much larger growth, and more recently introduced, — 
frequently fold for it in the nurferies about town, 
Though cultivated fo long fince in this country, the plant is 
far from common ; it is of {mall growth: its flowers, produced 
from July to September, are of a lively purple colour, and 
ufually fucceeded by feeds, whereby the plant is increafed, as 
alfo by cuttings. | Se oe 
__ Such as with to fee a minute defcription of it, may It 
Murray's, viz. the 14th edit. of the Syp. Veg. Linn. 
