300 
INDIGOFERA ameena. 
Long-bunched Indigo, 
—— , 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Weauminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. p. 
-INDIGOFERA. Supra in notis appendicis vol. 3. 
I. ameena, foliis ternatis oyalibys pilosiusculis, ramis teretibus, spicis pe- 
dunculatis, stipulis setaceis, calycibus laxis, caule frutescente. Hort. 
Kew. 3. 68. : 
Indigofera ameena. Jacq. hort. scheenb. 2. 57. t. 234, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 
351.. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 1224. 
Frutex brachialis et ultra, ramosys, erectys, setulis decumbentibus hispidoe 
canescens ; rami flecuosi gquadranguloso-marginati. Fol. alterna, remota, 
patentissima, subtus densius pubescentia ; foliolis oblongo-ovalibus, vix uncias 
hibus, subequalibus, mucrone recurvo, nervis preter medium principem ab- 
solescentibus; petiolus subbrevior foliolis, cum ramo articulatus qc foligla cum 
illo: stipule 2, herbacee, subulato-qristate, hispide, caduce. Pedunculi 
-azillares, solitarit, erecti, spicatim racemost, pluriés longiores folio; floribus 
numerosis, sparsis, approximatis, pee subsemuncialibus, roseo-pur- 
, purascentibus ; pedicellis hispidis, revissimis, cum calyce continuis ;- bracteis 
caducis, subequantibus calycem, subcoloratis, punctatis, lamina compresso- 
fornicata aristato-acuminata pede brevi viridi positd, Cal. hispidus, coloratus, 
campanulatus, transverse latior, subtriplo brevior corolla, semisfidus, limbo 
4-labiato, segmentis inceequalibus ciliatis lineari-subulatis, labit summi divari- 
catis deorsiim obliquatis, labii imi pectinata-collateralibus, medio majore. Pet, 
concolora, vengsa, subaequilonga: vex. oblongum, rhombeo-ovatum, sybe 
acuminatum, de infra medium refractum, ungie lato, rubro, concavo non tecto 
calyce, dorso bigibbo, lamina ad pedem notata macula didymé albo et violaceo 
striata: ale falcato-lanceolate, divaricate, acumine lanuginoso, yungue sim- 
_plici: car. deflexa, lanceolato-navicularis, utrinque mucronato-calcarata, une 
guibus Ss oblongis divergentibus rubris. Stam. diadelpha;: tubus fila- 
mentosus brevissimé 9-fidus, supra rubescens, apice incurvus: anth. erecte, 
ovate, apiculo posticé cristato, barba alba tomentosa ad basin. Germ. teres, 
_willosum, rectum s stylus bis brevior v. magis, tereti-subulatus, yubescens, 
incurvus; stig. glanduloso-capitatum, subcompressum, album, : 
This pretty species does not seem to have been recog- 
nised of late in our collections for the INDIGOFERA amcna, 
which it clearly is. In all the gardens where we have met» 
‘with it, it has been known by the appellation of Inptcorgra 
purpurea, Belongs to the Cape of Good Hope; and was in- 
troduced in 1774 by Mr. Masson. A free-flowering greens 
house plant. 
A grey branching upright shrub, with a short hispid 
flat-pressed silvery fur, in the samples we haye seen, seldom 
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