AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 323 
Series 4. Flores majusculi, in racemos breves dispositi. Carina dorso 
rotundata, 13-22 mm. longa.  Stipule parvee. Legumina sessilia, 
oblongo-ovoidea, densissime ferruginea vel fusco-pilosa. Frutices erecti 
vel suffrutices. 
135. C. LACHNOCARPOIDES, Engl. in Hochgebirgsflora, 246 (1892) ; Harms in 
Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma, vii. (1897) 88. 
Planta e basi ramosa. Caules circ. 3-4 dm. longi, ubique densissime 
ferrugineo-pilosi. Stipule angusto. Folia breviter petiolata vel superiora 
sessilia, foliolis lanceolatis vel lineari-oblongis basi cuneatim angustatis 
3-6 cm. longis 1-1:5 em. latis, petiolo communi cire. 5 mm. longo prædita. 
Racemi breves, densiflori. Pedicelli cire. 2 mm. longi. Bractee lineari- 
lanceolate, pedicellum equantes. Calycis tubus circ. 5 mm. longus, dentibus 
elongato-triangularibus. Vexillum cire. 15 mm. longum, unguiculatum. 
Ale cire. 15 mm. longe et 5 mm. late. Carina apice inflexa, 13-18 mm. 
longa. Legumen oblongo-ovoideum, cire. 3 em. longum et 1:5 em. crassum, 
densissime ferrugineo-pilosum. 
ABYSSINIA : Tigré, alt. 2200 m., Schimper! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
GALLA Territory: Burgi, Riva No. 1338! Hb. Zurich. 
GERMAN Fast AFRICA: Usambara, Kwa Msturza, Holst No. 8999 ! Hb. 
Berol., Hb. Kew.; Usambara, Buchwald No. 77! Hb. Berol. 
Subsp. C. VALIDA, Baker in Kew. Bull. (1897) 253, pro sp. 
Frutex erectus. Rami lignosi. Folia breviter petiolata. Legumina 
sessilia, dura, oblonga, oligosperma, nempe quam in typo seminibus pauci- 
oribus, et leguminibus brevioribus, sepius 18-20 mm. longa. 
te NvasALAND: Between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte No. 373! Hb. Kew. ; 
Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 322 ! (1881), G. Adamson No. 280! Hb. Kew. ; 
Nyasaland, Buchanan No. 204! (1895), Kyimbila, Stolz No. 233! Hb. Mus. 
Brit. 
Conco REGION : Kundelungu, Kassner No. 2573 a! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
136. C. LAcHNosEMA, Stapf in Kew Bull. (1910) 329. 
C. lachnocarpa, Baker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 33, quoad Pl. Barter. 
Suffruticosa ad 2 m. alt. attingens. Caulis erectus, cinereo- vel fulvo- 
tomentosus. Stipulw lineares, 3-5 mm. longs. Folia trifoliolata, foliolis 
intermediis oblongis vel oblongo-oblanceolatis 50-60 mm. longis 25-32 mm. 
latis, foliolis lateralibus inszequilateralibus 35-40 mm. longis, omnibus subtus 
cinereo-tomentosis, petiolo communi tomentoso 8-12 mm. longo praedita. 
Flores majusculi, in racemos laxissimos pauciflores dispositi. PBracteole 
filiformes. Calyx cinereo- vel fulvo-tomentosus, 12-18 mm. longus, laciniis 
lanceolatis. Veaillum externe tomentosum, cum ungue circ. 24 mm. longum. 
Ale oblonge, cire. 21 mm. longæ et 7-8 mm, latæ. Carina fulvo-tomentoso, 
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