Tas. 8580. 
INDIGOFERA Kietown. 
N. China. 
LeGuminosak. Tribe GALEGRAE, 
InpicorErA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 494. 
Indigofera Kirilowii, Maxim. ex Palibin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xvii. 
p- 62, t, 4 (speciebus nonnullis citatis exclusis); Craib in Notes Roy. Bot. 
Gard. Edin. n. xxxvi. p. 66; ab affini I. elliptica, Roxb., pedunculo 
communi petiolo longiore facile distinguenda. 
Frutex; ramulis juventute pilis perpaucis albis brevibus medifixis instructi, 
cito omnino glabri, parum angulati, cortice mox tenuiter striato obtecti. 
Folia 7-9-foliolata, ad 12 cm. (petiolo excluso) longa, petiolo 1°2-8°2 em. 
longo simul ac rhachi supra canaliculato et nisi juventute glabro suffulta ; 
stipulae circiter 7 mm. longae, angustae, acutae, diutius persistentes ; 
foliola saepissime opposita, elliptica vel rotundato-elliptica, apice obtusa 
vel rotundata, mucronata, basi cuneata ad rotundato-cuneata, usque ad 
8 cm. longa et 2°5 em. lata, chartacea vel tenuiter chartacea, pagina 
utraque pilis albis medifixis adpressis sparse instructa, nervis lateralibus 
utrinsecus circiter 6 pagina utraque conspicuis, nervis transversis 
praesertim subtus uti reticulatione conspicuis, petiolulo 2-3°5 mm. 
longo suffulta; stipellae petiolulo dimidio breviores. Racemi ex axillis 
bene infra apicem ramulorum orti, folia superantes, pedunculo communi 
tiolo circiter duplo longiore suffulti; bracteae deciduae ; pedicelli 3-4 mm. 
ongi, ut rhachi glabri; corolla in alabastro nisi summo apice et ad vexilli 
margines glabra. Calyx glaber; tubus 2 mm. longus, lobo longissimo 
aequilongus. Vewillwm oblongo-ellipticum, 1-7 cm. longum, 1 cm. latum, 
ciliatum; alae 2°75 mm. latae, vexillo parum breviores, ciliatae; carina 
acuminata, vexillo aequialta, ciliata. Antherae insigniter apiculata, apice 
basique ciliis paucis instructae. Ovariwm compressum, glabrum, circiter 
8-ovulatum, stylo glabro stigmate capitato.—I. macrostachga, Bunge, 
Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. p. 16; Franch. Pl. David. p. 82; Foubes et Hemsl. 
in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 157 partim ; vix Vent.—W. G. Crar. 
The Indigofera here figured is a species represented in 
the Kew collection by examples received from two distinct 
sources. In one case the collection owes the plant to 
the kindness of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, who has con- 
tributed it from his garden at Les Barres. In the other 
it is indebted for the plant to the kindness of Professor 
Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. The material for 
our illustration has been taken from the latter plant. 
The native habit of J. Kirilowii includes Chihli, Shenking 
and Shantung in Northern China; it also extends into 
Korea. Bunge, who first had to deal with this plant, 
referred it doubtfully to 7. macrostachya, Vent., which has, 
however, more numerous leaflets, much smaller flowers 
and a short common peduncle. The fact that /. Kirilowii 
OcroBEeR, 1914. 
