Indigofera tinctoria
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Indigofera tinctoria, Linn. Indioo. Fig. 1958. Shrub, 4-6 ft., with silvery branches: lfts. 7-15, thin, rather large, obovate-oblong, pubescent beneath: fls. small, reddish yellow, in short racemes, the pedicels finally recurved; calyx pubescent, the lobes subulate: pod nearly straight, somewhat knotty, 8-12-seeded, about ¾ or 1 in. long. S. Asia.—Long cult, and widely distributed. Runs wild S. Indigo was known to the Egyptians.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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