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longer than the leaves, legumes reflected slightly 
curved tereti-tetragonal mucronate appresso-hispid 
many-seeded. 
De Cand. Prod. II. 227. 
HAB. Common Port-Royal and St Andrew’s mountains. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Suffruticose; branches long, virgate, trailing, supported on 
neighbouring shrubs, angulose, hispidulous with appressed hairs. 
Leaflets petioluled, 2- rarely 3-paired with an odd one, oblongo- 
ovate, mucronate, hispidulous with appressed hairs, hoary be- 
neath : petiole terete. Racemes axillary, solitary, elongating 
as the fruit begins to form, so as to exceed the leaf in length. 
Flowers alternate, shortly pedieelled, furnished with a minute 
subulate ciliated bractea at the insertion. Calyx externally 
hispidulous, 5-fid ; lobes acute. Standard rounded, internally 
vermilion- coloured, externally pale and puberulous with a lon- 
gitudinal green mid-nerve: wings acinaciform, minutely ciliated 
at the apex: keel white, with the upper edge tinged with red, 
and ciliated. Stamens 9 and 1. Ovary linear, minutely ap- 
presso-puberulous : style filiform : stigma subcapitate. Legume 
nearly 2 inches long, tereti-tetragonal, subulate at the apex, 
appresso-hispidulous, slightly curved, many-seeded. 
This species appears to have been first detected by Bertero, 
during his visit to this Island. As the leaves are very thin, 
and the plant grows in thickets, it is not likely that it will 
be found adapted for the purposes of the Indigo grower. 
In the cultivation of the Indigo plant, the best time, for plough- 
ing or preparing the land, is immediately after the October rains. 
It lias been found that sowing broad cast succeeds better than 
in drills. A bushel of seed will plant from six to eight acres. 
In the course of a few days the young plants come up ; soon 
after which they ought to be cleaned and moulded. As the 
plant grows wild in river courses and in dry gravelly situations, 
a soil of a similar character is found the best adapted for its 
cultivation. The rains ought also to be light and seasonable, 
and it is of importance that they should fall immediately after 
the young plants show themselves above ground, in order that 
they may be invigorated, and enabled to resist the attacks of the 
numerous insects to which they are, at this period of their growth, 
exposed. From this time little rain is required, except im- 
mediately after the branches have been cut ; at these periods a 
shower is of great service enabling the plants to send out new 
and vigorous shoots. A wet climate indeed is not at all suited 
to the cultivation of the Indigo. It is true that the plant may 
grow luxuriantly, but the juices are watery, and the produce 
