CROTALARIA. 4or 
2.) Folia ternata. (Pedicelli infra apicem vel medio bibracteolati.) 
4. CROTALARIA rromanms. T 
C. suffruticosa ; procumbens ; foliis ternatis ; foliolis obovato- oblongis , emarginatis , adpresso- 
pilosiusculis; pedunculis 5- 7-floris; leguminibus subro-spermis calycibusque adpresso- pube- 
rulis. 
Crescit in maritimis prope Havanam. (Insula Cube.) p Floret Martio. 
Cars sublignosi, procumbentes, ramosi, 6-8-pollicares ramique angulati, glabri, alterni; ramuli pilis 
minutis adpressis obsiti. Fora alterna, petiolata, ternata. Foliola summo petiolo communi insidentia (rhachi 
nulla), obovato- oblonga, emarginata, basi cuneata et breviter petiolata, integerrima, obsolete venosa, nervo 
medio subtus prominulo, membranacea, crassiuscula, Lete viridia, supra glabra, subtus pilis minutissimis 
ineas longum, 21-23 lineas latam; lateralia minora, 5:-/ lineas longa; 
ine: longi, puberuli. Pzriorus communis 5-4 lineas longus, glabriusculus. Srieurx petio- 
adpri 
petioli proprii 7 
lares gemince, minutissim:e, subulatz. Pepuxcur: subterminales et oppositifoli 
lati, glabriusculi, $- 2- pollicares. Fronzs pedicellati, alterni, subracemosi, dimidio minores quam in Crotalaria 
incana; pedicellis adpresso-puberulis, 1-1 ilineam longis, basi uni-, medio bibracteatis; bracteis minutis, 
subulatis, adpresso- puberulis, persistentibus. Carvx subcampanulatus, bilabiatus, membranaceus, nervosus, 
adpresso-puberulus, viridis, persistens; labium superius bi-, inferius trifidum ; laciniis ovato- lanceolatis, 
acutis, subequalibus. Conorr4 pentapetala, papilionacea, calyci supra basim inserta, glabra, flava; petala 
brevissime unguiculata, flabellato- nervosa; superius (vexillum) ovato-subrotundum, acutiusculum, calycem 
triplo superans, adscendens, supra unguem interne lobulo duplicitransversorotundato crassiusculo instructum, 
dorso adpresso-puberulum, ante apertionem floris alas et carinam amplectens; ungue brevissimo, pilis 
albis dense fimbriato ; duo lateralia (alu) paulo breviora, oblique oblonga, apice rotundata, ad angulum 
rectum adscendentia ; duo inferiora (carina) deltoideo-ovata, superne angustata, apice obtusa, semicordata, 
fimbriata, concava, supra unguem gibba, marginibus contiguis connata, ad angulum rectum adscendentia 
et alas paulo superantia. SrawzwA 10, monadelpha, ibidem inserta, adscendentia, in carina recondita ; 
alterna antheris multo minoribus instructa, longiora, in alabastro breviora. FirwexrA lineari- capillacea, 
uninervia, diaphana, glabra, omnia inferne in tubum compressum supra secundum longitudinem fissum 
connata, quinque (longiora) reliquis angustiora. Avruzuz biloculares, basi emarginate ibique affixc, erecta, 
glabre, latere secundum longitudinem dehiscentes ; quinque majores subconicz, obtuse ; minores elliptico- 
subrotundz. Ovanrva brevissime stipitatum, oblongum, compressiusculum, pilis albidis adpressis dense 
obsitum, apice in stylum desinens et deflexum, uniloculare ; ovula circiter 20, suturze vexillum spectanti affixa, 
biseriata, subreniformia, superne paulo latiora, medium versus suspensa, glabra.Srvrus subulatus, geniculato- 
adscendens, stamina superans, puberulus. Sricx4 obtusum, pilis brevissimis cinctum. LrcvwriNA brevissime 
stipitata, calyce et filamentis persistentibus suffulta, oblonga, teretiuscula, secundum suturam seminiferam 
planiuscula, ad latera tumida, apice rotundata rudimentoque styli mucronata, adpresso- puberula, lzvia, 
escentia, semipollicaria, unilocularia, bivalvia , subdecasperma; valvis chartaceis; seminibus 
conspersa ; terminale 5- 
» solitarii, apice 5- 7- flori, angu- 
fusco-v. 
biseriatis, reniformibus, podospermiis longiusculis suffultis ; suppetentibus immaturis. 
Nov. Gzw. zr Srzc. Tous VI. 
