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 Indigofera Candicans. White-Leaved 



Indigo. 



Clafs and Order, 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. patens. Cor. carina utrinque calcari fubulato patulo. 

 Lcgumen lineare. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



INDIGOFERA candicans foliis ternatis lanceolato-linearibus 

 fubtus fericeis, fpicis pedunculatis pauci- 

 floris, leguminibus cylindraceis re£tis. Ait- 

 Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 67. 



Of the genus Indigofera, twenty-three fpecies are enume- 

 rated in Prof. Murray's edition of the Syji. Vegetab. of 

 Linnaus; ten in the Hortus Kewcnfis of Mr. Aiton; W 

 which laft work only, the prefent plant, diftinguifhed by the 

 whitenefs of its ftalks and of the underiide of its leaves, is 

 defcribed, and in which we are informed, that it is a native 

 of the Cape, from whence it was introduced by Mr. MassON 

 in 1774. 



Its principal period of flowering is from about the begin- 

 ning of May to the middle of June, at which time it i* 

 highly ornamental in the green-houfe : ftrong he lb) p' ants 

 produce from five to eight bloffoms in a fpike : on a plan 1 

 growing 'with Mr. Colvill, Nurferyman, King's-Road> 

 Chelfea, we once counted nine : a few of thefe ufually pro- 

 duce feed-veffels containing perfect feeds, by which the plant 

 is moftly propagated; it may alfo be raifed by cuttings, bu 

 not very readily. 



