ordinary indigo en (either 7. tinctoria or I. Ani nil), à Ted 
under cultivation by the natives, but the preparation is so 
inefficient that the produce is not likely to compete successfully with 
Indian and other sources of Indi k 
The most promising plant, next to species of Indigofera, is no doubt. 
that alveaty mentioned as yielding Yoruba Indigo. Ina paper, read. 
> su 
_ of correspondents and others interest a West African products :— 
“Tt has long been known from the ‘observations of travellers, that. 
* the natives of the West Coast of Afri rica 
or of them was = source of the dye in use amongst the 
= inhabitants of the West cd 
a “ It was therefore with some surprise that I found amongst 
* number of specimens received at the close of last year ' from Capta 
* Alfred Moloney, C.M.G., Admini th Coa: 
o 
* He replied to me, on April 10, from Lagos, as follows : ieee 
* * [ am glad to find I have sharpen ed your appetite as to the Indigo. 
* * The country abounds with it; but as the young shoots are the 
** * parts from which the dye is made, you can realize the difficulty of 
“ < securing flower and fruit. I do not despair, however. . . . - 
Em his tree might be largely deve! edd ee: 
uminous. The Yoruba for 
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* gequai of the vast Kew He ratum in which it 
« safe to say that no human being will ever surpas 
ee my attention to a specimen (3360) brought back 1 ae 
edition by Barter in 1859. It is accompanied by a 
3 — which I transcribe: 
‘t Indigo of the Yoruba country. erum shrub 4 
h panic 
