NOTES ON INDIGOFERA 189 
that by Hernandez in his Nova Plant. Hist. p. 108 (1651), where 
he figures an seri iwhqvilitl pi } ifoli 
which by exclusion can only be I. Anil B polyphylla DC. The 
n r lud Gal.; and I. Thi- 
baudiana DC, is equally excluded by the shape of the leaflets. The 
same character excludes J. tinctoria L., which, moreover, had pro- 
bably not reached America from the East Indies in Hernandez’s 
The wild form of this species is the plant known as 
I. Guarmmata Lunan, Hort. Jamaicensis, p. 420 (1814). 
Lunan, J. c. quotes for this ‘‘ Indigofera 2. Assurgens minusque 
divisa, ramulis crassioribus striatis, spicis axillaribus.” P. Browne, 
Nat. Hist. Jam. p. 302 (1789), where it is called ‘The Guatemala 
Indigo Plant.” 
Indigo cald Guatimala. Jam. HB.,” which is the wild form of 
nil Li. (= var. B polyphylla and = I. suffruticosa Mill.). There 
Sugar Colonies”; on p. 52, he has under the head Indigofera three 
plants: 
“1. Caule levi, spicis ad imum usque floriferis. Slo. t.179, 2. 
2. Caule stricti, spicis imo nudis. Guatimala or Wild Indigo. 
3. Subvillosa Colutea, &. Slo. 176, 3.” ‘ 
No. 1 is I. tinctoria L.—the form I. indica Lam. No. 2 is the same 
q , 
Guatemala Indigo and Wild Indigo; thus agroevaened transferring 
} ad 
B polyphylla DC.) are different species, Berg, in Berg & Schmidt, 
Darstell. u. Beschreib, Offiz. Gewiichs. iv. 80d. (1868), does not 
