404. LEGUMINOSE. 
semiteres, interne canaliculatus, adpresso-pubescens, 12-14 lineas longus. Rhachis nulla. SriPvLE 
petiolares geminze, capillacez, pubescentes, vix dimidiam lineam longa. Rackur terminales, tardius laterales, 
solitarii, pedunculati, adjecto pedunculo g-10-pollicares; rhachis angulata, adpresso-pubescens. Fronrs 
pedicellati, alterni, magnitudine sequentis; pedicellis 4-5 lineas longis , adpresso-pubescentibus , basi 
bracteatis; bracteis delapsis. Carvx urceolatus, grosse quinquedentatus, basi subturbinatus, membrana- 
ceus, quinquenervius, externe adpresso-puberulus, persistens ; dentibus elongatis, acuminatis, tubolongio- 
ribus, subzqualibus; inferiore reliquos paulo superante. Conorza pentapetala, papilionacea, glabra, lutea (?) 
petala flabellato-nervosa ; superius ovato-subrotundum, obtusum ?, subcordatum, breviter unguiculatum, ad 
angulum rectum adscendens, supra unguem gibbis duabus instructum ; duo lateralia (ale) vexillum 
subequantia, oblique oblonga, obtusa, adscendentia; duo inferiora alas superantia, longius unguiculata, 
late semilunata, superne acuminata et adscendentia, concava, marginibus contiguis coharentia, marginibus 
liberis fimbriata. SrAwiNA 10, monadelpha, supra basim calycis inserta, adscendentia, in carina recondita, 
omnia fertilia, alterna (in alabastro minora, tardius tamen reliqua longitudine superantia?) antheris multo 
minoribus instructa. FrrAwENTA lineari-capillacea, uninervia, diaphana, glabra, omnia inferne in tubum 
supra fissum connata, superne libera, persistentia ; tubus compressus, tuberculis minutissimis punctiformibus 
emarginatze, dorso supra basim affixee, erecto, longitu- 
nigris conspersus. Axrurna biloculares, obtusz, basi 
dinaliter interne dehiscentes, lutez?, glabra; majores lineares, inferne dilatat» ; minores quadruplo breviores, 
ovato-ellipticau. Ovaniux stipitatum, lineare, teretiuseulum ?, apice in stylum desinens, glabriusculum. 
Srxrvs subulatus, ciliatus. SriGwA obtusum, pilis brevibus annulatim cinctum. Lucuutsa immatura, stipitata, 
oblique oblonga, basi rotundata, inflata, stylo persistente ad medium reflexo rostrata, adpresso-hirtella, 
subpollicaria, unilocularia, subcoriacea; stipite 2 2 lineas longo, teretiusculo , adpresso-pubescente. Seminula 
circiter 17, suture interiori alternatim inserta, subreniformia, compressa, podospermiis longiusculis teretibus 
curvatis affixa, glabra. 
8. CROTALARIA A4wacYnors. T 
C. arborescens; foliis ternatis; foliolis lanceolato- oblongis acutis  mucronatis , basi cuneatis , 
subtus adpresso-puberulis, junioribus fuscescenti-sericeis; racemis mulufloris; leguminibus 
polyspermis calycibusque puberulis. 
Maraguito Zncolarum. 
Crescit prope Caracas , alt. 460 hex. p Floret Januario. 
AnBontscNs; ramulis teretiusculis, adpresso- pubescentibus, junioribus seriecis. Forza alterna, petiolata, 
iernata. Foliola omnia summo petiolo insidentia (rhachi nulla), lanceolato-oblonga, acuto-mucronata, 
basi cuneata et petiolata, integerrima, reticulato-venosa, nervo medio subtus prominente, membranacea, 
supra glabra, subtus adpresso-puberula; juniora fuscescenti-sericea; terminale 16-20 lineas longum, 
/4 lineas latum; lateralia. minora, subpollicaria; petioli proprii sericei, vix dimidiam lineam superantes. 
Prius communis filiformis, interne canaliculatus, adpresso- puberulus, 15- 16 lineas longus, basi dilatatus. 
SriPoLs petiolares geminz, minute, subulatis, puberula. Racer oppositifolii, solitarii pedunculati, multi- 
flori, adjecto pedunculo 21-2/ lineas longi; pedunculo semipollicari rhachique angulatis, sericeo- pubes- 
centibus. Fronzs pedicellati, alterni, vix magnitudine floris Crotalariz arborescentis ; pedicellis 2-27 lineas 
longis, sericeo- pubescentibus , basi uni-, superne bibracteatis; bracteis lineari- setiformibus, pubescentibus, 
tres lineas longis, caducis. CArvx urceolato- campanulatus, usque ad medium quinquefidus, membranaceus, 
xeticulato-nervosus, externe adpresso- puberulus, persistens ; laciniis acuminatis, sub:zqualibus, lateralibus 
