CHAP. XLT, LEGUMINACE^, AMO RPHA. 607 



Prod., ii. p. 256.) The species are highly ornamental on account of their 

 leaves, and more especially of their long spikes of flowers ; which, though, 

 when taken separately, they are small, and imperfect in regard to form, are yet 

 rich from their number, and their colours of purple or violet, spangled with 

 a golden yellow. The plants are not of long duration ; and are liable to be 

 broken by wind ; for which reason they ought always to be planted in a shel- 

 tered situation. They produce abundance of suckers, from which, and from 

 cuttings of the root, they are very readily propagated. The several sorts 

 that are in the garden of tlie London Horticultural Society, and in the arbo- 

 retum of the Messrs. Loddiges, appear to us only varieties of one and the 

 same species. 



* 1. A. FRUTico^SA Lin. The shrubby Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 



Identificatim. Lin. Sp , 1003. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 256. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 234. 

 Synonymcs. Wild Indigo, Amcr. ; faux Indigo, Fr., Strauchartiger Unform, Ger. 

 Engravings. Schkuhr Handb., t. 197. ; Mill. Icon., t. 27. ; Bot. Reg., 427.; Krauss., t 7.; N. 

 Du Ham., 3. t. 36. ; and our Jig. 302. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Rather arborescent, some- 

 what villose or glabrous. Leaflets elliptic- 

 oblong, the lowest distant from the base of 

 the petiole. Calyx somewhat villose ; 4 of 

 its teeth obtuse, 1 acuminate. The standard 

 glandless. Legume few-seeded. {Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 256.) A native of Carolina and Florida, 

 on the banks of fivers, where it grows to 

 the height of from 9 ft. to 12 ft. In Britain, 

 it produces its long close spikes of fine, rich, 

 very dark, bluish-purple flowers in June and 

 July. It was introduced into Britain in 

 1724', by Mark Catesby ; who states that the 

 inhabitants of Carolina, at one time, made 

 a sort of coarse indigo from the young 

 shoots. It is now a common shrub in Eu- 

 ropean gardens; and Thunberg is said to have observed it in those of the 

 Lsland of Nipon, in Japan. 



Varieties. 



^ A.f. 2 angnstifoita Pursh has the leaflets linear-elliptic. 



^ A. f. 3 emorgindta Pursh has the leaflets notched, and the calyx 

 hoary. There is a plant of it in the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



a* A. f. 4 LewisWLodd. Cat.^ 1830, appears to have rather larger flowers 

 and leaves than the species. There are finely flowering plants of it 

 in the Goldworth Arboretum. 



at A.f. 5 ccerulca Lodd. Cat., 1830, has the flowers of somewhat a paler 

 blue. There are plants of it in Loddiges's arboretum. Perhaps it is 

 only a variation of A. croceo-lanata. 



Commercial Statistics. The price of plants, in the London nurseries, is \s. 6d. 

 each, and of seeds, l*. per oz. ; at Bollwyller, plants are 50 cents each, or 

 seedlings 10 francs for 50; at New York, plants are 37§ cents each, and seeds 

 4 dollars per lb. 



at 2. A. (f.) gla'bra Besf. The glabrous Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 



Identification. Desf. Cat. Hort. Par., 192. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 256. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 251. 



Spec. Char., S(C. Rather arborescent, glabrous. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, the lowest distant from the 

 base of the petiole. Calyx glabrous, four of its teeth obtuse, one acuminate. Standard glanded on 

 the outside. Legume containing few seeds. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 25G) A shrub, growing from 3ft lo 

 6 ft. high. Introduced in 1810, and flowering in July and August 



J* 3. A. (f.) na^na Nutt. The dwarf Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 



Identification. Nutt. in Fras. Cat., 1813; Nov. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 91. ; Dec. Prod , 2 p 256 • Don's 



Mill., 2. p. 234. ' 



Si/nom/me. A. microphylla Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 46a. 



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