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AMORPHA fruticosa. 
Wild Indigo. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussicu gen. 345. Div. VIx=PAPILIONACER, 
Brown in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 552. 
AMORPHA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Ver. ovatum concavum; ale nulle 
nec carina. Stam. basi monadelpha. Legum. minimum ovatum tubercula- 
tum dispermum. (Corolla monopetala in Lucumrnosis peculiaris). Juss. 
1. c. 357. Frutices suffruticesve: fol. pinnata, (pellucenti-) glandulosa ; — 
stipulee setacew, minute, tim partiales tim gencrales, a foliis et foliolis 
distincte: flores spicati, numerosi, parvi, sepins cerulei; ee solitaria, 
aggregate et terminales: legumen glandulosum: stylus pubescens: stigma 
glabrum. Nuttall gen. 2.91; (ex anglico). 
A. fruticosa, glabra, subarborescens; foliis petiolatis, spicis aggregatis 
elongatis, calycibus nudiusculis pedicellatis, dentibus 4 obtusis, unico 
acuminato, leguminibus oliposperrals: Pursh amer. sept. 2. 466. 
Amorpha fruticosa. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.2. 1003. Mill. dict. ed. 8. _Duham 
arb, 1. 46. tab. 16. alt, carol. 179. Schmidt arb. 1. 28. t. 30. 
Michaux bor. amer. 2. 64. Hort. Kew. 3. 17. ed. 2. 4. 265. Schkuhr 
handb. 197. Willd. sp. pl. 3.970. Nuttall gen, 2. 91. 
Amorpha. Hort. cliff: 353. t. 19. Mill. ic. 18. t. 27. 
Pseudo-acacia virginiana non spinosa, Probst hort. bosian. 17. 37. 39; cum 
icone. 
Barba jovis americana, pseudo-acaciz flosculis purpureis minimis. Hort. 
angl. 11. t. 4 . 
vulgaris. («) foliis mucronatis, oalycibus glabris. Pursh. 
emarginata. (8) foliis emarginatis calycibus canis. Pursh. 
angustifolia. a foliis lineari-ellipticis basi subacutis. Pursh. 
A North American genus, remarkable among its papili- 
onaceous co-ordinates for a corolla of one petal; the vexil- 
lum alone being present, while the ale and carina are en- 
tirely wanting. . 
The present species belongs to Carolina and Florida, 
where it is known by the name of “ Wild Indigo;” an in- 
ferior kind of blue dye having been formerly made by the 
inhabitants from the young shoots. Introduced in 1724, by 
Mr. Mark Catesby. The drawing was taken this summer, 
at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chel- 
sea. It is cultivated in the open ground, and flowers about 
June in favourable seasons. 
The following description is chiefly from the french of 
the Chevalier Lamarck in his Encyclopédie Botanique. 
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