192 



III. — Rheede, Hort. Mai. ix. t. 30 ; Burman, Thes. Zeyl. 1. 14 ; Lam. 

 Encycl. t. 626 ; Jacq. Ic. iii. t. 569 ; Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Ow. Ben. ii, 

 t. 119 ; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 1836, t. 21. 



Vernac. name. — Idogo (Lagos, Punch). 



Nupe (Barter, Nos. 1594, 1631, Herb. Kew); Lagos (Punch and 

 Dawodu, No. 8, 1899, Herb. Kew) ; Epa-Ile (Cons, of Forests, 

 S. Nigeria, No. 462, Herb. Kew) ; Quorra (E. Vogel, Herb. Kew). 



Said to yield Indigo in West Africa (Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 310, 

 from Spon's Encycl. p. 858). 



Indigofera pulchra, Vahl. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 76. 



Vernac. name. — " Baki-Bunu " (Katagum, Dalziel). 



N. Nigeria (Elliott, No. 127, Herb. Kew) ; Katagum (Dalziel, No. 21, 

 1907, Herb. Kew). 



Used with grass in thatching, Katagum (Dalziel, I.e.). 



Indigofera simplicifolia, Lam. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 72. 



Katagum (Dalziel, No. 26, 1907, Herb. Kew). 



Root an ingredient in Fulani Arrow-poison (Dalziel, I.e.). 



Indigofera suffruticosa, Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. viii. (1768) No. 2. 



[Indigo/era Anil, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 98.] 



Ill,— Sloane, Hist. Jamaica, t. 179, f . 2 ; Diet. Sc. Nat. t. 252 ; Tuss. 

 Ant. ii. t. 9 ; Lam. Encyc. t. 626, f. 2 ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 40, f . 1 (pod 

 and seeds) ; Bot. Mag. t. 6506 (figured from plant flowered at Kew) ; 

 Kohler, Med. Pflan. iii. 



Vernac. names. — [Anilis (Guam), Anil (Spanish) ; Tagum (Philip- 

 pines) Safford~\ ; Juiquilite (Mexico, Bering). 



Quorra (Vogel No. 128, Herb. Kew). Native of S. America ; and 

 cultivated in Burma, China, &c. 



One of the species most commonly cultivated (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.). 

 Cultivated in small quantities near the dwellings of the natives, 

 Angola (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. i. p. 192) ; and on the Gambia 

 almost to the exclusion of I. tinctoria (Williams, Mus. Kew). 

 Widely cultivated in Sierra Leone, where the process of obtaining 

 the dye is a somewhat primitive one. The young branches are 

 gathered and left in heaps in the sun, until decomposition sets in ; 

 they are then boiled in a large vessel, afterwards cooled and the 

 cloth placed in the liquid together with pieces of a certain root (? as 

 a mordant) (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, p. 31). 



In French Guiana the bruised leaves are used as an anodyne in 

 warm baths ; in decoction (Erysipele) as a powerful sudorific, and 

 the roots and seeds infused in rum for destroying vermin (Heckel, 

 PI. Med. et Toxiq. Guy. Franc, in Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, iv. 1897, 

 p. 120). 



Ref. — " Indigo/era Anil," in Med. Pflanzen, Kohler, Vol. iii. 

 6 pages. — " The Indigo of Mexico " in report on the cultivation of 

 Cacao, Vanilla, India-Rubber, Indigo, and Bananas in Mexico, 

 Foreign Office Rep. Misc. No. 385, 1895, pp. 18-23. 



Indigofera tinctoria, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 99. 



III. — Rheede, Hort. Mai. i. t. 54 (Ameri); Plant. Indig. et Exot. 

 Ic. t. 30 ; Plenck, Ic. vi. t. 572 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. ii. t. 365 ; 

 Berg & Schmidt, Darst. Beschr. Pharm. iv. t. 30d ; Bentley & Trimen, 

 Med. PL t. 72 ; Duthie, Field Crops, t. 12 ; Zippel, Ausl. Handels, 

 Nahrpfl. t. 31 ; Engl. & Prantl. Pflan. iii.^pt. 3, f. 115 A— D. 



Vernac. names. — Nyakampete (Senna, Kirk) ; Nil (India, Prain & 

 Baker) ; [Anilis (Guam.), Anil (Spanish), Tagum (Philippines) 

 Safford]. — Indigo. 



