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CROTALARIA tenuifolia. 
Narrow-leaved Crotalaria. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LeguminosjE. Tribus Loteee Dec. 
CROTALARIA. Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 128. 
§. 1. Foliis simplicibus. 
* Stipulis non decurrentibus, interdum nullis, floribus racemosis, racemis 
terminalibus aut oppositifoliis. . . 
C. tenuifolia (Roxb.); foliis linearibus acutis senceo-pubescentibus, caule 
virgato simplici, racemo laxo elongato terminali, calycibus ovarnsque 
sericeis. Dec. prodr. 2. 126. .. 
Rami angulati, dense tomentosi. Stipulee minima, subulatee, d f ldU(B - 
Folia simplicia, lineari-oblonga, breviter petiolata, acutiuscula, suprd densd 
sericea, subtiis villosa. Racemi terrmnales, nunc 1| pedem longi, taxi, 
multiflori. Flores distantes, nunc erecti, nunc penduli resupinali, pedunculis 
post anthesin retortis. Calyx dense ferrugineo-tomentosus, corolla duplo 
brevior, alte! partitus, laciniis inferioribus apice coheerentibus. Corolla 
magna, lutea, vexillo cordato acuto, dorsoferrugineo. Legumen ventneosum, 
oblongum, sericeo-ferrugineum, polyspermum, seminibus parvis funicu o ongo 
affixis. 
We are glad to have an opportunity of presenting the 
public with an authentic figure of this species oi r ®. a 
laria, because it enables us to indicate the differences w ic 
exist between it and C. fenestrata , a nearly allied P aa ’ 
with which M. de Candolle has been led to suspec i s 
identity. 
If the figure now published be compared with that of 
C. fenestrata, in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 1933, it wi 
be seen that the outline of the leaves of the two species is 
essentially different, and that the subject of this ar ic e 
has a vexillum of a brown colour behind; while, on t ic 
contrary, that of C. fenestrata is of the same colour on both 
sides. To which we may add, that C. tenuifolia is a ai 
more virgate plant, with a suffrutescent stem. 
