NOTES. 
intended the determination of the specimens, and assisted in collating 
the whole with the Herbarium of Linnzus. To which we may add the 
having been passed in review by most of the eminent botanists of the day, 
by whom it has been resorted to from all parts, as the touchstone for the 
essay of the synonymy of their intended works, and who have .attested 
their presence by. various. suggestions and corrections on its leaves. Among 
the unobserved errors in it, however, the considering the plant. of the 
above article as the LeseckiA contaminata of Thunberg and Spartium 
contaminatum of Linneus, is certainly one; and we were misled by it, 
though not without the fault of remissness in ourselves. The Linnean 
species has yellow flowers and monadelphous stamens, that is, the tenth 
stamen is not detached from the other nine; while in the plant of the 
above article these are clearly. diadelphous, and the flowers of a purple 
colour. The mistake evidently arose from the too Brent weight given to a 
prima facie likeness in regard to’a very peculiar habit common to both 
the species, as well as to’ the curious purple stains, which in our plant are 
however scattered over the whole petiole, while in that of Linnzus there 
is only one to each petiole, and that at the base. Nor can our plant be the 
one intended by Thunberg, whete the flowers are described as umbellate, 
a feature which separates it likewise from that of Linnzeus, of which it has 
been heedlessly made the synonym. We have no reason to think that the 
species of either Linnzus or Thunberg have been introduced into our col- 
lections. The LeBeckia contaminata of the Hortus Kewensis is proved to 
be the same species as that of the above article by its introducer’s sample _ 
in the Banksian Herbarium, but not the one intended by either of the 
original observers, being in: fact the INDIGOFERA Jilifolia of Thunberg, 
The article should be amended as follows; gr! 
. 
_ \ INDIGOFERA filifolia. 
_ Spotted stalked Indigo. 
INDIGOFERA. Cal. patens 5-dentatus. Carina calcare subulato 
utrinque notata. Zegum. oblongum lineare subcylindricum polyspermum ; 
rectum aut incurvum. Frutices aut Herbe; folia interdim ternata, rard 
simplicia, plerimque impari-pinnata ; foliola in quibusdam articulata et basi 
aristata more Phaseoli ; stipule a petiolo distincte; pedunculi axillares 1-2. 
flori aut sepiiis Pein ort. Legum. ovatum breve 2-spermum in I. en- 
neaphylla. Species plurime tinctorie, Jussieu gen. 359. fe 
. 
I. filifolia, foliis simplicibus filiformibus, floribus racemosis. Thunb, prod. 
ott De > : 
Indigofera filifolia, Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1220. 
Lebeckia contaminata. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 261; (non vero aliorum ), 
Spartium contaminatum, Hort, Kew. 3, 10; (non verd Linnai). 
The rest of the article should remain as it is; the synonymy and names 
being altered as here, We should observe, that when the plant is young, 
it is far less glaucous than when old, and has always a few smooth shinin 
pinnate leaves here and there, and the racemes are more closely and nu- 
merously flowered. As the plant advances in age, the foliage is reduced 
wholly to bare petioles, the shrub grows long and straggling, and very 
glaucous, and the racemes fewer flowered, as we see them in the figure of 
this work. We have met with various specimens of it at Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy’s, at Messrs. Whitley and Co.’s, at Mr. Knight's, and at Mr, 
Burchell’, all lately raised from Cape seeds. 
