AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 391 
recto curvata. Legumen coriaceo-induratum, breviter stipitatum, globoso- 
obovoideum, + 15 mm. longum. 
ABYSSINIA : Schimper (1853) No. 814! Hb. Kew. ; Berreshowa, Schimper 
(1853-58) No. 442! Hbb. Kew., Mus. Brit. 
NiGERIA : Katagum District, Dalziel No. 13 ! Hb. Kew. 
ERITREA : Schweinfurth No. 277! Hb. Sehweinf. 
This plant is an annual, with solitary flowers, and a globose, obovoid, 
shortly stipitate pod, scarcely twice the length of the calyx, softly clothed 
with spreading hairs. 
267. C. GEMINIFLORA, Dinter in Hbb. Berol. et Turic. 
Procumbens, diffuse ramosus. fami flexuosi, herbacei, hirti. Stipulæ 
lineares, 5-7 mm. longs, hirtæ. Folia trifoliolata, foliolis ovatis ovato- 
lanceolatis vel ellipticis 10-33 mm. longis 10-18 mm. latis, petiolo communi 
15-37 mm. longo suffulta. Flores axillares, gemini vel solitarii. Pedunculi 
fructiferi usque ad 4 cm. longi, floriferi hirti, breviores. Bracteole infra 
calycem conspicuæ, lanceolatæ, hirtæ. Calycis laeinie lanceolate, 85-9 mm. 
longæ, tubo longiores. Vexillum calyce paullo longius, luteum. Carina in 
sicco 11-12 mm. longa, apice in rostrum attenuata, calyce paullo longior. 
Legumen oviforme, hirtum, subsessile, 12-18 mm. longum, stipite circ. 3 mm. 
longo suffultum. 
HanEROLAND : Okahandja, Dinter No. 473! Hbb. Berol, Turic. In 
flower and young fruit, March, 1906. 
This plant is a much branched, hairy, herbaceous annual, allied to 
C. Taubertii, Bak. fil. The leaflets are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the flowers 
borne on long peduncles, either geminate or solitary, the calyx-lobes much 
longer than the tube, whilst the pod is egg-shaped and hairy. 
Series 61. Flores mediocres, in racemos paucifloros dispositi. Stipule parvee. 
Carina dorso angulata, 10-13 mm. longa. Calycis lobi foliacei. 
Braeteole sub calyce conspicue. Legumen breviter stipitatum, pilis 
obtectum. Herba. 
268. C. ZIMMERMANNII, Bak. fil. in .Notizblatt Konigl. Bot. Garten, No. 52, 
66 (1913). 
Herba caule erecto tereti ramoso pilis obtecto. Stepulw parve, lineares. 
Folia trifoliolata, foliolis cuneato-ellipticis vel euneato-oblongis basi in 
petiolulum attenuatis apice rotundatis vol leviter emarginatis 10-20 mm. 
longis 6-11 mm. latis, utrinque strigoso-hirtis, petiolo communi 10-20 mm. 
longo instructa. Flores mediocres, in racemos laterales cire. 2-4-floros dis- 
positi. Calycis tubus campanulatus ; lobi foliacei, fructiferi, 8-10 mm. longi. 
Bracteole lanceolate, 4-5 mm. longs, sub calyce posite. Alm oblonge, 
unguiculate. Carina lutea, dorso angulo fere recto curvata, inde in rostrum 
