AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 351 
Africa, especially the Congo Region. Rarer on the East side. Occurs in 
Uganda on Mt. Ruwenzori and is quite uncommon in British East Africa. 
Occurs in Nyasaland. 
Easily recognised by the 5, more rarely 3 leaflets, which are of a deep 
green colour, and the racemes of sulphur-yellow flowers, with a carina 
rounded on the back. 
Var. SERETI, De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Dot. sér. 5, iii. 198 (1912). 
Foliola 9 em. longa attingentia. Legumen appresse velutinum. 
Conco Recton : Between Amadi and Suronga, Seret No. 354 ! Hb. Brux. 
Var. nov. KÄSSNERI, Bak. fil. 
Caulis erectus, sursum magis cinereo-hirsutus. — Foliola breviora, 25-45 mm. 
longa. Bracteole anguste, + 5 mm. longi. Carina falcata, 15-16 mm. 
longa. 
DBnrrisu Hast Arrica: Galunka, Adssner No. 838! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
Differs from the type in the rachis of the inflorescence, and the calyx being 
more densely cinereous-hirsute ; the leaves are also shorter. 
Series 24. Flores lutei, mediocres, in racemos pluri- vel multifloros dispositi. 
Carina falcata, 11-14 mm. longa. Stipule 0. Legumina oviformia vel 
oblonga, distincte stipitata. Suffrutex ramosus. 
187. C. ARGYRÆA, Welw. ex Baker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 26 (1871) ; 
Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. i. 200, non Franchet. 
C. Pechueliana, Schinz in Verh. Dot. Brand. xxx. (1888) 157. 
Sufruter 045-12 m. alt, erectus, argenteo- puberulus. Stipule 0. 
Folia trifoliolata, foliolis obovatis cuneato-ellipticis vel euneato-oblongis 
sepius 15-30 mm. longis 8-18 mm, latis glauco-viridibus, petiolo communi 
10-25 mm. longo preedita. Bracteolæ parviv. Caly cire. 5 mm. longus, 
dentibus acutis. Veeillwm calyce longius. Ale oblongie, carinam sub- 
squantes. Carina apice acuta, dorso rotundata. Legumen 11-13 mm. 
longum ; stipes 3-4 mm. longa. 
ANGOLA : Mossamedes, Benguella, Welwitsch No. 1972 ! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
AMBOLAND: Omapanda, Wulshorst No. 30! Hb. Turic.; Omaruru, 
Rautanen No. 350! Hb. Turie. ; Ovamboland, //opfner No. 107! Hb. 
Schinz. 
HEnkROLAND : Rehmann! Hb. Schinz ; Okahandja, Dinter No. 800! Hb. 
Turie. ; Augams, Dinter! Hb. Turic. ; Luderitz No. 146! Hb. Schinz; 
Nels No. 25! Omapu, Schinz No. 5311 Hb. Schinz. 
NAMAQUALAND : Belek No. 62! Hb. Schinz; Karakoes, Schinz No. 537 ! 
Hb. Schinz ; River Onanis, Belek No. 62! Hb. Schinz ; Rehoboth, Dr. Fleck 
No. 4561 Hb. Schinz. 
