The Botanical Register Volume 4; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...posita. Cal, hispidus, cotoratus, eampanulatus, transverse latior, subtriplo brevior corolla, semiSfidus, limbo 2-labiato, segmeniis in qualibus ciliatis lineari-subulatis, labii summi divarU calis deorsum obliquatis, labii irai pectinato-collateralibus, medio majore. Pet, concolara, venosa, subeequilonga: vex. oblongum, r/tombeo-ovatum, sub acuminatum, de infra medium refractum, ungue lato, rubro, concavo non tecto enluce, dorso bigiobo, lamina ad pedem noiata macula didyrna albo et violaceo striata: alteJakatolanccolalce, divaricat, acumine lanuginoso, ungue sintplici: car. deflexa, lanceolatonavicidaris, utrinque mucronato-calcarata, guibus simplicibus oblongis divergentibus rubris. Stam. diadelpha: tubus filar mentosus brevissime 9fldus, sitpra rubescens, apice incurvus: anth. erecta?, ovala, apiculo postice cristato, barba alba tomentosa ad basin. Germ, teres, villosttm, rectum; Stylus bit brevior v. magis, iereti-subulatus, rubescens, incurvus; etig. glanduloso-capifatum, subcompressum, album. This pretty species does not seem to have been recog nised of late in our collections for the Indigofera am na, which it clearly is. In all the gardens where we have met with it, it has been known by the appellation of Indigofera purpurea. Belongs to the Cape of Good Hope; and was in-, troduced in 1774 by Mr. Massou A free-flowering greenhouse plant. A grey branching upright shrub, with a short hispid flat-pressed silvery fur, in the samples we have seen, seldom VOb. IV, M exceeding a yard in height; branches flexuose, 4-ridged; the small bristles that form the fur are decumbent and fixed down at their middle with the two ends pointed and detached, as we see them...