AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 255 
This is one of the oldest and best known species of Crotalaria. It is 
figured by Hermann in his Hort. Acad. Lugduno-Batavus, p. 199 icon., 
and there is a specimen and drawing in the Hermann collection in the 
National Herbarium. It is widely spread in the Tropics and formed, 
together with three other Indian species, Wight and Arnott’s group 
Verrucose, characterised by the softly pubescent pods, the distinctly petioled 
leaves, and the lunate, transverse recurved stipules. 
Series 2. Flores parviusculi, luteoli, axillares. Carina cire. 4 mm. longa, 
Stipulze oculo nudo vix conspicua, Herba einereo- viridis. 
2. C. roLYGALOIDES, Welw. ew Baker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 15 (18710) ; 
Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. i. 196. 
Herba habitu Polygale. Folia breviter petiolata, oblonga vel oblongo- 
oblanceolata, apice rotundata, basi cuneata, 2°5-3°5 mm. longa, 5-10 mm. 
lata. Flores peduneulati. Calyx profunde. 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus 
majoribus. Verillum oblongo-ovatum, breviter et late unguiculatum, basi 
bieallosum. Carina albido-lutea, apice vix rostrata, dorso genuflexa, alyce 
brevior. Legumen parvum, oblongum, 6-8 mm. longum, demum glabrum, 
6-9-spermum., 
SIERRA LEONE: Wallia, Scott Elliot No. 4280! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
Frencn EquatortaL AFRICA : Haut Oubangui, Chevalier No. 6121! 
Hb. Kew. 
Congo REGION : Kisantu, Gillet ! Hb. Brux. 
ANGOLA : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch Nos. 1922! & 19226! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
Series 3. Flores minutissima, solitarii, pedicellati. Carina apice in rostrum 
gracilem acutum attenuata, in toto 3-4 mm. longa. Folia angusta. 
Annua. 
3. C. MINUTISSIMA, Bak. fil., sp. nov. (PI. 9.) 
Annua, erecta, ramosa, gracilis, circ. 15 em. alta. Stipulæ inconspicurm. 
Folia angustissima, 10-25 mm. longa, pilis albidis strigoso-pubescentia. 
Flores minutissimi, inter minimos generis, solitarii, graciliter pedicellati. 
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Bracteole parvæ, apicem versus pedicellorum posite. Calyx brevis, extus 
strigoso-pubescens, dentibus lanceolatis, acutis, in toto circ. 2 mm. longus. 
Vexillum calyce 2—3-plo longius, apice mucronatum. Carina dorso genu- 
flexa. Legumen oblongum, juvenile pilis obtectum, demum glabrum, calyce 
compluries longius, sessile, in toto 6-7 mm. longum. 
Species ad C. bongensem, Bak. fil., accedens, a qua primo intuitu facile 
distinguenda, floribus minutissimis solitariis, ete. 
