16 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Indigofera 



specimens, but the pods have been drawn much thicker than they are in 

 the original, and apparently gave rise to De Candolle's varietal name 

 Tnacrocarpa. The specimen on page 9 with few-seeded, sickle-shaped pods 

 is I. suffruticosa Mill. There are three specimens on page 8. That on the 

 left is the original of the plate 176, f. 3, and it and the specimen at the 

 bottom of the page, though without pods, appear to be conspecific with 

 the specimens on page 7, i.e. I. tinctoriaJj. The specimen on the right of 

 the page agrees quite well with that on page 9, and is J. suffruticosa Mill. 

 The specimen of I. tinctoria in Linnaeus's Herbarium agrees well with 

 Sloane's specimens. 



The label attached to page 7 is the diagnosis of Hist. ii. 34 ; that of 

 page 8 is the diagnosis of Hist. ii. 37. It is quite clear fron> the diagnoses 

 that they refer respectively to I. tinctoria L. and I. siiffruticosa Mill., and 

 it is unfortunate that there has been a mixing of the specimens, and that 

 the artist copied the wrong specimen for t. 176, f. 3, with which the 

 description in the text does not correspond. 



2. I. suffruticosa Miller Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) ; leaflets in 

 5-6 pairs, oblong, narrowing equally to both ends, generally 

 acute, mucronulate, strigose on both sides, especially beneath ; 

 racemes shorter than the leaf with crowded flowers ; pods sickle- 

 shaped, with 3-6 seeds.— I. anil L. Mant. 272 (1771); Mac/. 

 Jam. i. 244 ; Prain and Bah. f. torn. cit. 137. I. Guatimala Lun. 

 Sort. Jam. i. 420 (1814). I. tinctoria Wright Mem. 293 (1828) 

 (non L.). I. anil L. var. polyphylla DC. Prodr. ii. 225 (1825). 

 Colutese afiinis fruticosa argentea, floribus spicatis e Aaridi pur- 

 pureis, siliquis falcatis Shane Cat. 142 & Hist. ii. 37 (omit t. 176, 

 f. 3). Indigofera assurgens subvillosa &c. & I. assurgens 

 minusque &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 302, Specimens from Herb. 

 Miller in Herb. Mus. Brit. The specimen of I. anil in the 

 Linnean Herbarium agrees well with Miller's specimen of I. suf- 

 fruticosa and with Sloane's specimens. 



Wild Indigo, Guatimala Indigo. 



Barham in Herb. Sloane clxxxiv. 8 ! Sloane Herb. vi. 8 & 9 ! (omitting 

 left and bottom specimens on 8) ; Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 82 ! 

 Wright ! Macfadyen ! Liguanea ; Hopewell, St. Mary ; McNab ! Purdie ! 

 Marchl Resource, Blue Mts., 3400 ft., J.P. 1252, Hartl Gordon Town, 

 JBall\ Mavis Bank, JoJinsonl Kingston, Hitchcock; Porus, Lloyd. — Ber- 

 muda, Bahamas, West Indies, tropical continental America, also Africa and 

 Asia (where possibly it has been introduced). 



Shrub ; stem and branches densely white-strigillose. Leaflets 2-3 cm. 1., 

 stipules awl-shaped. Calyx 5-fid, segments subequal, triangular, 1 -3 mm. 1. 

 Corolla: standard broadly elliptical, 4*5 mm. 1.; wings oblanceolate, 

 nearly as long as the keel ; keel oblanceolate, nearly as long as the standard, ■ 

 with a spur on each side near the middle. Pod oblong-linear, slightly 

 torulose, much thickened along both margins, refiexed, short, strigillose, 

 1-1-5 cm. 1. Seeds cylindrical, terete, about 2*2 mm. 1., with depression 

 at the scar of attachment. 



Form obtusifolia ; leaflets elliptical or narrowly elliptical, 

 generally obtuse or subobtuse, glabrous or sparingly strigose on 

 upper surface, strigose beneath. 



Resource, Blue Mts., 3400 ft., Harris ! Yallahs Valley ; Golden Spring, 

 800 ft., Thompson ! "PI. Jam. 6142, 7987. 



