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INDIGOFERA australis: 
-Botany-bay Indigo. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea. Legum. 1-loc. 2-valy. Frutices aut herbe; fol. simplicia 
aut ternata aut rarius digitata; stipule nunc subnulle nunc conspicue imo 
petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincta#—=PapPitioNace®. Brown in app. 
to Flind. voy. 2. 552. 2 
INDIGOFERA. Supra in notis appendicis vol. 3. 
I. australis, foliis pinnatis glabris multijugis oblongis, racemis folio brevio- 
ribus vexillis glabris leguminibus patentibus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1235. 
Indigofera australis. Venten. malmais. 45. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. $55. 
Rriitis ramosus, superné foliosus, glaber, ramis alternis, patentibus, bre- 
vibus. Fol. alterna, horizontali-reflexa, petiolata, impari-pinnata, 3-6-juga, 
foliolis oppositis distantibus brevi-petiolatis, ovalibus et lanceolatis, glanduloso- 
_apiculatis, subtis obsolete Pirbesrentiues pet. articulatz, ad lentem villis appres- 
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sts obsoleté pubescentes, glanduld parvuld purpurascente pari singulo foliolorum 
interposita: stipule a petiolo distincte, recta, lineares, brevissime, citd 
decidue. Nacemi azillares, solitarii, suberecti, subbreviores folio, pedunculo 
ad lentem obsolete pubescente. Flores alternt, proximi, -horizontales, pe- 
dicellati, roseo-rubentes, suaveolentes: bractee 2-8 ad basin pedicello- 
‘rum, brevissime, purpureo-membranacee. Cal. Paes saturate 
purpureus, villis nigricantibus obsolete pubescens, sub veaillo truncatus, sub 
carina inequali-5-dentatus. Pet. unguiculata: vex. erectum, rotundatum, 
emarginatum, striatum, macula candida ad basin: ale vesillo a@quilonge, re- 
flexa, oblonge, obtusiuscule: car. alis aliquantulim brevior utrinque juata 
supra unguem calcarata. Fil. diadelpha: anth. erecta, glanduloso-apiculate, 
pallidé lutee. Germ. lineare, compressum, glabrum: stylus geniculatus, 
Jiliformis, stigmate capitato. Leg. reflecum, cylindricum, ob medullam fun- 
gosam monospermo-3-4-loculare. Sem. nigricantia, angulis 4 obsoleté notata, 
ad lentem impresso-punticulata. ; 
A species from New South Wales. Introduced by Sir 
Joseph Banks in 1790; and now pretty common in our 
greenhouses, in which it thrives with little care. 
A smooth branching shrub, leafy at the upper ‘part: 
branches alternate, spreading. Leaves ‘alternate, horizon- 
tally reflectent, petioled, unevenly pinnate, 3-6-paired, 
leaflets opposite, widish apart, short-petioled, oval and 
lanceolate, with a small glandular apex, obsoletely furred 
underneath: petioles jointed, furred with a short close- 
pressed pubescence scarcely visible but through a magnify- 
ing glass, bearing a small purplish gland between each pair 
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