Castle, in 1914, and from these the subject of our 
. illustration was raised. The plants grew quickly and 
flowered during August and September, 1916, when our 
figure was prepared. They were cut back to the 
ground-level during the winter of 1916-17, but broke 
freely again from the base, grew during the summer 
to a height of seven feet and flowered freely towards 
autumn. The racemes are pendulous and the largest are 
from 15-18 inches long. Indigofera pendula is most 
nearly allied to J. Faberi, Craib, another Chinese species, 
which has almost ‘glabrescent young twigs, ovate leaves 
and ionger pedicels disposed on shorter racemes. The 
cultivation of J. pendula offers no great difficulty ; the 
plant likes a sunny position and an open well-drained 
soil. Judging from the experience of the winter of 
1916-17 it is at least as hardy as most of the other 
cultivated Indigoferas, all of which die back to the 
ground-level in winter. Like them it can easily be 
increased by cuttings. 
Description.—Shrub of spreading habit, 8-10 ft. high ; the year-old shoots 
glabrescent, glaucous-grey, bearing the bases of fallen leaves; young shoots 
sparingly adpressed puberulous, distinctly lenticelled. Leaves up to 10 in. 
long; rachis channelled above and shortly pubescent along the groove; 
leaflets in 10-13 pairs, oblong-elliptic, rounded and distinctly mucronate at the 
tip, rounded at the base, 3-1} in. long, 3-3 in. wide, thinly papery or almost 
membranous, pilose and closely punctulate above, thinly adpressed pilose 
beneath, lateral nerves 7-8 on each side the midrib, tolerably distinct ; 
petiolules ;;-} in. long, pubescent. Racemes axillary, pendulous, longer than 
the leaves, up to 18 in. long, very slender, rachis naked for about 8 in. at the 
base, angular, finely and sparingly pubescent ; bracts minute; pedicels very 
short, puberulous; corolla in bud grey velvety. Calyx obliquely cup-shaped ; 
tube ,'; in. long, adpressed pubescent outside ; lobes slightly unequal, subulate, 
the longest lobe rather longer than the tube. Corolla rose-purple ; standard 
oblong-elliptic, } in. long, uniformly silky-puberulous outside ; wings rather 
shorter than the standard, ciliolate upwards; keel about as long as the standard, 
somewhat obtuse, puberulous upwards on the outside. Anthers apiculate. 
Ovary adpressed-strigose; style slender, glabrous, crowned by the globose, 
fleshy, translucent stigma. Pod when dry spirally twisted, shining, 2 in. long, 
sparingly strigillose. Seeds ellipsoid, shining, pale brown, } in. long. 
Tas. 8745.—Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same, petals removed; 8, wing-petal ; 
- 4, keel-petals; 5 and 6, antheis ; 7, style and stigma :—all enlarged. 
