Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . long and narrow. The four species here included are all handsome plants, requiringa good, but not a heavy, loamy soil, and a sunny position. They areincreased by cuttings made of half-ripened shoots placed in a close,slightly heated frame. The cuttings should be kept under glass the firstwinter, remaining in their pots until spring. I. I)ECOR.\, LitidUy. (Bot. Mag., t. 5063.) A low deciduous shrub, i to 2 ft. high, perhaps more in mild reddish brown, slender, bearing pinnate leaves 4 to 6 ins. long atintervals of i to lA
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . long and narrow. The four species here included are all handsome plants, requiringa good, but not a heavy, loamy soil, and a sunny position. They areincreased by cuttings made of half-ripened shoots placed in a close,slightly heated frame. The cuttings should be kept under glass the firstwinter, remaining in their pots until spring. I. I)ECOR.\, LitidUy. (Bot. Mag., t. 5063.) A low deciduous shrub, i to 2 ft. high, perhaps more in mild reddish brown, slender, bearing pinnate leaves 4 to 6 ins. long atintervals of i to lA ins. Leaflets in three and a half to six and a half jwirs on ach leaf; I to 2\ ins. long, \ to I in. wide : ovatc-lanccolalc to oval, with a hort, abrupt, brisllc-like tip ;smooth above, furnii>hcd with ? r* attached by the centre. Racemes 6 ins. long, produced in the U, twenty to forty flowers on each. Flowers S to j| in. long, each borne on a 654: INDIGOFERA • of Chma and perhaps Japan -introduced aboui X by Fortune,. Indigokera decora. who found it i-rowinL in the sr-irrlonc ^f ci i • » • «ive^„ a front in the :^rZ:^^i!:^J^^^ fn^r^^^.tdt INDIGOIERA Goo I. GeRARDIAXA, Wallich.(I. Dosua, LindUy^ in Bot. Reg. 28, t. 57 —not Hamilton^ A deciduous shrub with downy, slightly-ribbed branches. At Kew, whereit is almost invariably cut back to the ground each winter, it sends up a densethicket of erect, scarcely branched shoots 2 to 4 ft. high, clothed from top tobottom with leaves. Where the climate is milder the shoots survive, and itthen becomes a much-branched shrub, perhaps 6 or 8 ft. high. On a wall atKew it is 10 ft. high. Leaves pinnate, 2 to 4 ins. long, composed of six toten pairs of leaflets and an odd one ; leaflets tl to f in. long, obovate or oval,clothed with grey appressed hairs on both sides, the apex notched or roundedand having a short bristle-like tip. Racemes produced from the Icaf-axils insuccession from below upwards, on the
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