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CROTALARIA purpurea. 
Purple Crotalaria. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Lecuminosa. Jussieu gen. 345. 
woe Y. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legumen 1-loculare bi- 
valve, 
CROTALARIA. Cal. profundà trifidus, lacinià infimá sub- 
trifidà. Corolle vexillum alis et cariná sæpè longius. Stam. omnia 
connexa cum fissurá dorsali. Legumen pedicellatum turgidum 1-2-sper- 
mum. Herbe aut frutices; folia simplicia aut ternata aut rariîìs digi- 
tata; stipula subnulle, aut conspicue et à petiolo plerâmgue distincta ; 
Jores sepê spicati, nunc terminales, nunc axillares aut foliis oppositi, 
Legumen in plurimis breve 1-2-spermum, in guibusdam longius poly- 
spermum. Jussieu gen. 354. 
Div. foliis compositis. . 
C. purpurea, folis ternatis: foliolis obovatis retusis, racemis terminali- 
bus, floribus saturaté purpureis. Venten. malmais. 60. 
Crotalaria purpurea. Persoon syn. 2. 985. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 273.. 
Frutex orgyalem mod? acquirens caulem, erectus, infra nudiusculus et fusco- 
'corlicalus, suprà contractie ramosus, ramis sparsis, foliatis, villoso-incanigo 
Folia laz? et irregulariter sparsa, ternata, petiolo et subtàs appressê villosa, 
| Juniora suprà lanugine ferê pulvereo-subtili opacata, venosa ; foliola obovatge 
elliptica, retusa, reflexa, medium majus modo subsesguiuneiale et petiolo 
communi fer? sa longus stipulis binis minutissimis villosis deciduis, 
Racemi terminales, erecti, multiflori, nunc Jere subpedales, infra subfoliosi, 
ind? nudi, pedunculo communi tereti lanuginoso, pedicellis flore brevioribus, 
prope calycem stipatis bracteolis 2 minutis oppositis decurrentibus, Cal. lana 
finorus, profundis bifidus, segmento supremo bidentato-truncato, imo trifido 
bulis lanceolatis, medio longiore cuspidato distantiore, lateralibus ascendenti> 
bus. Cor. saturat? roseo-purpurea magnitudine Jer? Ononts rotundifoliæs 
vexillum ascendens, emarginato-rotundum, 3-4-plo longius calyce, ocello 
albo et flavo ad basin notatum: ale cequilonge isti, 9-9-plo angustiores, 
supra carinam convergentes: carina parüm brevior, discreiè dipetala, incurvoe 
assurgens, petalis conniventibus suprà, im margine ima ad flezuram brevi 
lobulo subauriculotis. Fil. pro duobus tertiis partibus monadelphicà connata, 
Germ. sessile, subcylindricum, rectum, glabrato-viride, polyspermum : stylus 
und tertiá parte brevior, albus, setaceus, subarrectus: stigma punctum, obtuse 
tum, obsoleté 2-fidum. 
The first mention of this plant is in the splendid work 
destined to record the rare plants cultivated in the garden 
of La Malmaison, edited by Monsieur Ventenat; one of the 
many costly books which the governments of France, and 
of some parts of Germany, have enabled their artists and 
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