INDIGOFERA 



INSPECTION 



1647 



Gerardiana, Wall. (/. Dosiin, Hort., not Hamilt.). 

 Low much-branched shrub with silvery canesccnt 

 branchlets: Ivs. 1-2 in. long, with thickish opposite 

 pale white bristly Ifts. to }/2 in- long and oblanceolate- 

 oblong and 9-17 in number: fls. pale red, canescent 

 outside, the peduncled racemes 12-20-fld.: pod to 2 in. 

 long, nearly cylindrical. India. B.R. 28:57. 



/. caudnta, Dunn. Shrubby, 3-8 ft., with a coppery pubescence 

 on young growths: fls. white, about J-^in. long, in very long tail- 

 hke racemes that droop at the end. China. — /. hebepetala, Benth. 

 Branching shrub, lightly pubescent when young: Ivs. 4-7 in. long; 

 Ifts. 4-8 pairs, oblong, about 2 in. long: fls. small, reddish, in short 

 axillary racemes. Himalayas. B.M. 8208. — /. retictilaia, Franch. 

 Similar to I. Kirilowii, but dwarfer: Ivs. dark shining green: fls. 

 clear white. China, Korea. The plant in cult, may be I. reticu- 

 lata, Koehne. T H R 



INGA (a West Indian name). Leguminbss. Tropical 

 trees and shrubs, with acacias-like foliage and clusters 

 of showy red stamens. 



Spineless: Ivs. abruptly pinnate, usually with glands 

 between the large Ifts. : fls. not papilionaceous, in heads, 

 spikes, racemes or umbels, mostly 5-merous; stamens 

 oo, monadelphous, exserted beyond the small tubular 

 or campanulate corolla : pod narrow, often thickened at 

 the sutures, completely or partially indehiscent. — ■ 

 Species upward of 150, in W. Indies and S. Amer. 



A. Lfts. hairy beneath. 

 affinis, DC. Lvs. simply piunate; lfts. in 4 pairs, 

 ovate, acuminate, pubescent above, somewhat shining 

 and villous below, one side smaller than the other, 3 in. 

 long, 1^2 in. wide; petioles, branches, peduncles and 

 fls. velvety tomentose, a gland between each pair of lvs. : 

 spikes solitary or in pairs; corollas villous. Trop. 

 Amer. 



1958. Indigofera Anil. (Nearly natural size.) 

 The single pod is I. tinctora. (X^2) 



A.\. Lfls. not hairy. 



Feuillei, DC. Foliage handsome; lvs. simply pin- 

 nate; lfts. in 3-4 pairs, oval-oblong, acute at both ends, 

 glabrous: pods 1-2 ft. long, hnear, flat, glabrous, white 

 inside. Peru. — The sweet, edible pulp of the pods is 

 much prized by the Peruvians, who call it pacay. It 

 has ripened its pods in Calif. 



7. anomata, Hort.=Dichrostachys nutans. — 7. dulcis^ Wiild.^ 

 Pithecolobium. — I. guadalupensis, Desv.=Pithecolobium. 



WiLHELM Miller. 

 L. H. B.t 



INGENHOUZIA (Dr. John Ingenhousz, 1730-1799, 

 famous vegetable physiologist). Malvaceae. A sub- 

 shrubby plant of S. Ariz, and Mex., intro. recently 

 in S. Cahf. for ornament. AlUed to Gossypium: invol- 

 ucel of 3 triangular-lanceolate entire bracts; calyx 

 saucer-shaped; stigma obscurely 3-lobed: fr. a globular 

 leathery 3-celled and 3-valved caps. ; seeds 5-8 in each 

 cell or locule, puberulent. I. triloba, DC. Perennial, 

 4-10 ft., glabrous: lvs. 3-parted or 5-parted, or the 

 uppermost entire and lanceolate, the lvs. and branches 

 black-dotted: fls. on axillary peduncles, or somewhat 

 corymbose above; petals 1 in. long, pure white turning 

 to rose, dark-dotted. Generic name variously spelled. 



INOBtJLBON (in reference to fibrillose bulbs). 

 Orchidacfie. Pseudobulbs short, few-jointed, annulate, 

 fibrillose, few-lvd.: fls. in racemes or panicles; sepals 

 and petals equal, the lateral sepals not forming a 

 mentum; lip 3-lobed, the lateral lobes small, the middle 

 lobe large, with a thick fleshy caUus 3-parted disk; 

 column short, footless. — Species 2, New Caledonia. 



munificuffl, Kriinzl. (Dendrbbium muricalum var. 

 mun'ificum, Finet). Pseudobulbs about 3 in. long, 13^ 

 in. thick, 2-lvd.: lvs. up to 8 in. long: panicle of few 

 branches, somewhat nodding; sepals and petals green- 

 ish, brown-spotted; lip marked with reddish purple 

 and yellow. B.M. 8371. George V. Nash. 



INODES: Sabal. 



INOPHtLLUM: Tahitian chestnut. 



mSECTICIDES, raSECTS: Diseases and Insects, p. 1042. 



INSPECTION OF HORTICULTURAL MER- 

 CHANDISE. — To guard against the introduction of 

 insect pests and plant diseases, governments have insti- 

 tuted inspection service at ports of entry and for inter- 

 state commerce. The regulations may be federal, or 

 state or provincial. 



The plant-quarantine act. 



A federal plant-quarantine act was enacted by Con- 

 gress August 20, 1912. This act authorizes the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture to regulate the importation of 

 nursery stock and other plants and plant-products, and 

 to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant- 

 diseases and insect pests within the United States, and 

 also to exclude by quarantine diseased plants or plant- 

 products from foreign countries or to provide such 

 regulations governing the entry of such materials as will 

 insure safety. 



The first general attempt to secure national legisla- 

 tion of this nature resulted from the introduction of the 

 San Jos6 scale into the eastern United States and its 

 threatened general distribution on nursery stock. To 

 meet this emergency, a convention was called in Wash- 

 ington in 1897, composed of the delegates from horti- 

 cultural societies, nurserymen's associations, state 

 agricultural boards, agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations — a large and representative body of men. 

 After full discussion a bill was drafted, the primary 

 object of which was the control of domestic nursery 

 stock, but which provided also for the inspection of 

 foreign nursery stock. While this measure received 

 the endorsement of the convention, and was submitted 

 to Congress, the different interests were not fully 

 agreed as to the desirability of all its features, and it 

 was not heartily pushed and was idtimately dropped 

 with the idea of replacing it by a more suitable bill. 



During succeeding ye;irs, a number of bills covering 

 the same general subject were introduced at the diff'er- 

 ent sessions of Congress, and some of these were 

 reported favorably from the Committee on Agriculture, 

 but the opposition of importing nurserymen prevented 

 any of these measures ever reaching a very advanced 

 stage. In the meantime, various conferences were held 

 between the entomologists of the different states and 



