INDIGOFERA VIOLACEA. Purpie InpIGo 
PLANT. | 
Fo I RS SS SS 
Class and Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-fidus lobis acutis. Vexillum rotundatum emargi- 
natum. Carina utrinque calcare subulato notata demum 
sepe elastice deflexa. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus filiformis 
glaber. Legumen teretiusculum aut planum aut tetrago- 
num polyspermum bivalve, rarius oligospermum ovatum _ 
imo monospermum subglobosum. Semina ovata utrinque 
truncata isthmis cellulosis sepe disjuncta.—Herbe aut suf- 
frutices. Stipule a petiolo distincte parve. Pedunculi ax- 
illares. Flores racemosi purpuret cerulet aut albi. Folia 
nunc simplicia impari-pinnata aut dilatata, foliolis sepe bast 
stipellatis. Pili nunc omnino nunc plerique strigosi centro 
adfixi adpressi. DC. 
* Specific Character and Synonyms. 
InpicgorerA violacea ; fruticosa, foliolis 6-jugis oblongis, 
racemis axillaribus folio dimidio brevioribus, legumi-— 
nibus strictis subcylindraceis glabris 6—10-spermis. 
Roxb. ~ 
Inpicorera Violacea. Roxb. Fl. Indica. 3. 380. Graham 
in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. 1834. 
This very handsome shrub has stood for several years in 
the open air in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and flow- 
ered tor the first time in July, 1834. We received it from 
Mr. Tomas Hoge, of Clapton, in 1820, marked witha query 
as a species of Inpicorera. It differs from Roxpuren’s de- 
scription of I. violacea, in having the raceme rather longer 
than the leaf. I should have considered it his I. arborea, — 
had it not been that the branches are erect, not “ spreading 
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