447 
CROTALARIA vitellina. 
Colville's Crotalaria. 
—— 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu om 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea, Legum. 1-loc. a-valv.==PAPILIONAGER. Brown in append. 
0 nd. voy. 9. 
CROTALARIA. Supra vol. a. fol. 123. 
Div. Foliis ternatis. 
C. vitellina, pubescens; foliis ternatis, exstipulatis, foliolis ovali-lanceolatis 
acutis duplo longioribus petiolo hirtiùs villoso, lateralibus pauló minori- 
bus: leguminibus pendulis. 
Frutex villosus, gracilis, flent diffusóque ramosus. Fol. sparsa, di- 
stantia, ternata, exstipulata? petiolo communi erecto, stricto, villoso-canes- 
cente, subunciali, unisulco, foliolis ovali-oblongis, lanceolatis, plus minus 
iuncialibus, utrinque acuminatis, suprà nudiusculis v. ad venas tantüm 
tibus, infra villosis pallentibus nervosis, lateralibus paulò minoribus, 
petiolis propriis brevissimis crassis hirsutis flexilibus (meris articulis). Racemi 
terminales, solitarii, erecti, stricti, multiflori, 3-5-unciales, pedunculo vi- 
renti cum pube fulvá, floribus laxiüs sparsis, deflexis, fulvo-flavicantibus 
longitudine infra semuncialem, pedicellis duplo brevioribus ce teretibus 
decurvis bracteà duplo breviore v. ultrà lineari subulatä villosä deflexä subten- . 
sis, unam v. et alteram minutam appressam altiùs in se gerentibus. Cal. 
virescens, fulvo-villosus, 4 brevior corollá v. circà, ad 1 partes usque 5-fédus, 
10-nervis, tubo brevi . cente, segmentis aqualibus lato-attenuatis 
bilabiato-patentibus. Vex. cordato-orbiculatum, secús pedicellum reflexum, 
mucronatum, cum maculá violaceá radiato-crinitá ad basin: ale vexillo 
carináque duplo angustiores, conniventes, laminá obcuneato-oblongá obtusis- 
simä: carina “falcata, ventricosissima, pallida, acuminata, apice virescens. 
Fil. moradelphum, medio tenis 10-fidum, ungue tubuloso fissur dorsali in 
longum diviso: anth. flave, oblonge, erectae, à basi infixe. Germ. pedicel- 
latum, viride, sericeum, oblongum, compressum, poly-(101)-spermum ; stylus 
bis longior germine, virens, subulatus, supern? arrecto-inflerus, pro maximé 
parte à latere interiore albo-barbatus: stigma penicillus erectus summitatem 
denudatam styli terminans indeque stipitatum comparens.. Legum. pedicella- 
tum, pallidum, viz unciale, oblongum, inflatum, appressè villosum, rigido- 
membranaceum, stylo persistente caudato-acuminatum: semina plura, 2-41; 
(at non vidimus adulta.) 
We are informed that this plant has been only lately in- 
troduced from the Brazils. We do not find it either in Sir 
Joseph Banks's or in Mr. Lambert's Herbariuims; nor can 
we reduce it to any published species within our research. 
The drawing was taken in the hothouse at the nursery 
of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the 
plant flowers freely and produces seed. 
