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even agree with De Candolle in thinking them i distinct, 
renamed the two conjointly I. Anil a drepanocarpa. e 
explanation of this treatment is not obvious, but the probable ex- 
planation is that some confusion had taken place among Berg’s 
specim 
Fr; oe ge cit., is not that species at all, but is I. suffruticosa 
Mill. (J. Anti L.), the very plant that in the text he has united 
with I. tr nie (I. Anil a ch de ae. to form his I. Anil a dre- 
panocarpa. Berg’s I. Anil var. B brachycarpa is De Candolle’s 
I. tinctoria B brachycar pa, which, in so far as it is meres from 
change of opinion or belief has taken place. The plant that i . the 
time of Sloane and Petiver and P. Browne was known as Guatimala 
Indigo was the J. ne ee of Miller, the I. Anil of Tinkeee ee 
I. Guatimala of Lunan; by the time of Mocino & Sessé and of 
La Sagra this name was hie for I. guatimalensis “of Mocino and of 
Poeppig (I. tinetoria B brachycar He DC.). 
I. Anm y ortnocarpa DC. l.c. Leguminibus deflexis rectis. 
Rump. Amb. v. tab. 80 ? (v.s. ex Sita et India Orient.). 
The figure from Rumphius i is that of a form of I. Anil (J. suf- 
Jfruticosa); the specimens in the Prodromus Herbarium are three in 
number—(1) a specimen with no note of collector or louality which 
is not a form of either J. tinctoria or I. An il; (2) a specimen marked 
‘Indes, Labillardiére,” which is the Northern Indian form of 
Indigofera tinctoria; (3) & specimen from rae papl with no note as 
is somewhat different from either of ca ny of the species included 
a De Candolle under I, Anil y orthoc 
e ar 
Bot. Zeit. XXvii. p. 02) th at L Burman and J. tetrasperma are 
. T. Cooke, aaiabe is Getaad to think that, while the 
im hag ee of the Flora of British India is certainly De Candolle’s 
ety B tetrasperma, and is therefore I. a) ‘gentea Burm., the original 
we semitrijuga Forsk. is speeihanits distinct. 
I. enneapuyiia L, Mant. ji. p. 272 (1771). 
Some confusion occurs i ie synonymy in the original de- 
scription of this plant, a Linneus entirely revises it in the 
