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CROTALARIA retusa. 
Wedge-leaved East India Crotalaria, 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ard, Lreauminosa. Jussieu дел. 345. Div. Г. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea. Legumen 1-loculare 2-valve. 
+ CROTALARIA. Suprà vol. 2. fol. 128. 
C. retusa, foliis simplicibus oblongis cuneiformibus retusis, racemo termi- 
nali. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 976. 
Crotalaria retusa. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1004. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 7. Vahl symb. 
1.53. Hort. Kew. 8. 18. ed. 2. 4. 979. Garin. вет, 2. 316. 1. 148. 
о. 2, 
Tandale-cotti. Rheede mal. 9. 45. 1. 25. 
Caulis sesquipedalis ultráque, teres, lanuginosus, vivens, striatus, rarins 
ramosus, larè foliatus. Fol. undigue sparsa, plurimüm longiora intervallis, 
cuneato-oblonga, è mucrone recurvato retusa simulantia, subis sericeo-albi- 
cantia, supra subglabra, pilis nonnullis presertim ad nervum conspersa: 
petiolus decurrens, brevissimus, crassus, subtüs lanuginosus, basi dilatatus з 
stipule 2 minute, subulate, hirsuta, сайиса, viz oculo nudo percipiende, 
Racemus terminalis, pluriflorus, lazus, erectus, pedunc. breviores calyce, 
robusti appresse subvillosi, bracteà ovato-subulatá, rigidä, refractá, extús 
hirsuto-sericeá ad basin, aliisque 2 opposito-lateralibus minutis linearibus hir- 
sutis patentissimis supra basin. al. bilabiato-campanulatus, subvillosus, 
segmentis 2 summis distantibus, imis 8 prozimioribus. Vex. triplo longius 
calyce, luteum, oblato-orbiculatum, subretusum, unciam latum, extüs plicá 
elevatá subvillosá per medium dorsi, erecto-reflexum, cariná distans, glabrum, 
dorso fusco-venosum, et aliguä suffusum rubedine, basi intüs. dentibus binis 
anticis, ungue brevi fornicato tomentoso; ale concolores, breviores, porrecte, 
arctè complectentes carinam, suprà convoluto-imbricantes, _cuneato-obovale, 
late: car. pallida, clausa, ventricosa ventre trans alas prominente, acuminata 
acumine abruptiks arrecto obliguato, subtüs lineá lanceolată tomentosá, supra 
ad basin marginibus erectis profund? alata. — Fil. ad medium usque. mona- 
delpha cum fissurá dorsali, alterna та v. estensa antheris parvis sub 
globoso-didymis осуйѕ demittentibus pollen, alterna breviora primo flaccida v. 
detensa antheris pluries longioribus lineari-attenuatis seriús demittentibus pol- 
len. Germ. complanatum, ensiforme, glabrum, polyspermum: stylus filifor- 
mis, erectus, hirsutus: stig. glandula brevis apici truncato. styli prefixa, 
oblique acuminata, pruinosa, pallida. Legum. oblongum, inflatum, cylin- 
dricum, mucronatum, polyspermum, horizontale; sem. (ez Gerin.) 15-ad 
20, 3-ропо renifürmia, uncinulato-rostellata. 
An annual species, native of the East ladies, Culti- 
vated at Chelsea by Miller, in 1731; the seeds having been 
sent him from Holland by Boerhaave. 
Stem herbaceous, toughly fibrous, a foot and half high 
or more, green, fluted, oftener unbranched than branched, 
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