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stalks, FLowers ina dense raceme, at the end of a penduncle, of 
about three inches long, the raceme itself one or two inches long. 
BracTs about as long as the calyx, but falling off early. PEpicreLs 
very short. Catyx slightly hairy, the teeth lanceolate at the base, 
then ernie: the Jongest = longer than the tube. PerTats all 
smoo' eslong. Pop pendulous, straight, 
ate cylindrical, smooth. 
Poputar anpD GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Indigo, some 
- species of which furnish the well known blue dye of that name, is a very 
numerous‘one in the warmer parts of both hemispheres, especially in 
Asia and Africa; and in the latter continent it extends to the southern 
extremity. Indeed, a great proportion of the species, of those especi- 
ally, which like the one before us, have digitate leaves, are natives of 
the Cape colony. The Indigofera stipularis is found in elevated rocky 
situations on the borders of Cafferland, at the eastern limits of the 
colony, about the Winterberg, the Katberg, &c 
Independently of the commercial importance of some species, the 
genus Indigofera is also botanically remarkable as an extensive 
well-characterised genus, and yet offering great variation in the ar- 
rangement of the leaflets, a character so constant through the greater 
part of the order as to be used in distinguishing tribes. There are few 
cases indeed where digitate, and alternately pinnate, leaves occur in 
the same tribe, and scarcely any besides Indigofera where the two forms 
are met with in the same genus. On the other hand the inflorescence 
and flowers, as well as the general habit of the species of Indigofera, 
with both forms of leaves, are very much alike; all have the character- 
istic tooth-like process on each side of the keel, on which the expanded 
wings rest, and most, if not all, have more or less of a peculiar kind of 
stiff appressed hairs attached by the centre, which give a greyish hoary 
appearance to the dried specimens. G. B. 
InTRoDUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CcuLTurRE. Introduced into 
European botanical gardens about the year 1816; it has seldom, if 
ever, been transferred to ornamental collections, although like many 
other Cape species it certainly deserves a place in our greenhouses. 
It is easy of cultivation, not requiring so great a degree of summer heat 
as the plants from the neighbourhood of Cape Town. Our drawing 
was made at the Royal Gardens, at Kew, in May last (1840). 
Derivation or THE NaMEs. 
Ixpicorera, Indigo-bearing. Stieviartis, with large stipules. 
SynonyMEs. 
InpicoreRa strpvzarts, Link: Enumeratio Horti Berolinensis, v. 2, p. 250. De 
Candolle. mus, Vv. 2. p. 232. 
