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CROTALARIA ineana. 



Hoary Crotalaria. 



DIADELPHIA DECJNDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Legumixos^:. Jussieu gen. 347. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 

 papilionacea?. Legum. }-}oc. 2 vaJv. Frutices aut herba?; fol. simplicia 

 aut ternata aut rarius digitata; stipulae nunc subnullae nunc con spicule imo 

 petiolo adnata? aut ab eodem distincta2.=PAPiLK>NACE.s;. Broxun in app. to 

 Flind. voy. % 552. 



CR TALARI A. Suprh vol. 2. fol. 1 28. 



C. ineana, foliis ternatis ovalibus subtus villosis, racerais spiciTormibus, 



carina margine tomentosa, leguminibus sessilibus hirsutis. Hort. Kew. 



3.20. 

 Crotalaria ineana. Lin, sp. pi. ed. 2. 2. 1005. Jacq. obs. 4. 4. /. 82. Cavan. 



ic. 4. 11. t. 322. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 985. enum. 2. 748. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 



4. 274. 

 Crotolaria trifolia. Riv. ietrapet. 22. 



Subbipedalis, pubescens. Folia ternata, ten era ; foliola ovalia aut obo~ 

 vata, fine obiuso mucronato, supra virentia, infrh villoso'Canescenlia, unciam 

 aliquantum exsuperantia : petiolus communis villoso-albicans, vix longior 

 Jbliolis} petioluli hirsutiores, breves: stipulaa setacece, villosce, breves, caducct. 

 Racemi terminates, simplices, spicati, multiflori, semipedales, erecti; pedi- 

 celli breves, cumfiore nutantes, villosi. Cal. villosus. Cor. fiava, lineato- 

 variegata acuta; vex. carinatum, longius alts: carinas petala margine albo 

 Ian at a. 



We have ascertained by a sample in the Banksian Her- 

 barium, collated with that in the Linnean, that our plant 

 belongs to the Crotalaria ineana of Linnasus; but have 

 strong doubts of its being of the same species with the 

 plants adduced for synonyms from the works of Sloane and 

 Swartz; which we have" in consequence omitted in the 



present article. 



The drawing was taken from a specimen that flowered in 

 the hothouse at Spofforth, and was kindly sent to us by Mr. 

 Herbert. The species is stated in the Hortus Kewensis to 

 be annual and native of the West Indies. Mr. Herbert in- 

 forms us that he had the seed of it from the East Indies, 

 and that the plant is perennial. Cultivated by the Duchess 

 of Beaufort in 1714. 



About two feet high, furred. Leaves ternate, tender; 

 leaflets oval and obovate, rounded or blunted at the end 



