AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 297 
NYASALAND : Fwambo, Carson No. 28! (1894) Hb. Kew. 
The lax raceme, narrow, glaucous-green leaflets, and the slender pedicels 
make this plant easy of recognition. 
88. C. rENUIRAMA, Welw. ex Baker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. (1871) ; 24 
Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. i, 199. 
Annua, erecta, 3-10 dm. alta. Rami numerosi, erecto-patentes, virgati. 
Stipule 0. Folia trifoliolata, foliolis oblanceolatis superne pallide viridibus 
subtus glaucis tenuiter griseo-sericeis, petiolo communi 3-5 mm. longo 
prodita. Bractew sub pedicello parvæ. Calyw totus 3 mm. longus. Vexillum 
lineis striatum, cire. 6 mm. longum. Ale vexillo breviores. Carina 6-7 mm. 
longa. Legumen parviusculum, sessile, subrotundum, erectum, 1-2- 
spermum. 
Conco Reciox : Elisabethville, J. Bequaert No. 343! Hb. Brux. ; Haut 
Uele, Nys ! Hb. Brux. 
AxGoLA : Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch No. 1980! Huilla, Welwitsch 
No. 1981! Hb. Mus. Brit., ete. 
Series 16. Flores in racemos laxissimos plus minusve elongatos dispositi. 
Carina 8-9 mm. longa, dorso angulo recto curvata, inde in rostrum 
rectum attenuata. Herbs erecto. 
89. C. cernua, Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. i. (1900) 127. 
Zrecta, annua, herbacea, ramosa, adpresse pilosa. — Stipule subulato- 
lanceolate, parvae. Folia trifoliolata, foliolis anguste lanceolatis vel ellipticis 
4-6 em. longis cire. 5 mm. latis supra glabris et punctulatis subtus sparse 
pilosis, petiolo communi 15-30 mm. longo prædita. Flores aurei, in racemos 
terminales et laterales laxissime plurifloros dispositi. Pedicelli +5 mm. longi, 
fructiferi cernui. Calycis segmenta lanceolata, acuta, sparse sericea, tubo 
longiore. Vexillum 9 min, longum, sericeum, luteum. Carina 8-9 mm. 
longa, cymbæformis. Legumen globosum, cernuum, 4-5 mm. longum, 
pubescens vel sericeum, bispermum. 
ANGoLA : Humbe on the Kunene, H. Baum No. 100! Hb. Berol., Mus. 
Brit., ete. 
AMBOLAND: Olukonda, Rautanen Nos. 224! 226! 272! Hb. Turic. ; 
Uukuanjama, Tönjes ! Hb. Turic. 
HnEROLAND : Dinter No. 536 ! Hb. Turic. 
The racemes are long and lax, the leaflets linear or narrow lanceolate, and 
the pods glabrous. 
Forma LATIFOLIA, Schinz in Hb. Turic. 
Foliola latiora, oblonga vel oblongo-elliptica. 
AMBOLAND : Ondongza, Ztautanen No. 375 ! Hb. Turic. 
