AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 395 
incarnata est. Calycis tubus totus 6-7 mm. longus, laciniis lanceolatis. 
Legumen breviter stipitatum, oblongum, 16-20 mm, longum, pubescens. 
Care: Sandy hills near Ebenezer, Stellenbosch, Drege! Hbb. Kew., Mus. 
Paris. 
The leaflets of this plant are very narrow, and the flowers solitary or 
subsolitary. 
275, C. werusa, K. Mey. Comm. 25, ex parte (1835) ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ, Bot. ii. (1843) 574; Harvey, in Harvey $ Sonder, Fl. Cap. ii. 41. 
Ononis racemosa, Thunb, Fl. Cap. 587 (1823). 
Humilis, diffusa, ad basin copiose ramosa. Lami teretes, glabrescentes. 
Stipule minute. Folia trifoliolata, foliolis obovatis vel oblongis, 7-10 mm. 
longis 2:5-8 mm. latis subtus minute pubescentibus, petiolo communi 
7-15 mm. longo prodita. Flores lutei, mediocres, in. racemos peduneulatos 
laxe 3-6-floros dispositi, Bracter parvæ. Pedunculi siepe 4-7 em. longi. 
Calyx totus cire. 7 mm. longus, dentibus acutis. Vewillum obovatum. lw 
oblongo-ovatze, carinæ subiequilonge. Carina dorso rotundata, 10-11 mm. 
longa. Legumen subsessile, oblongum, adpresse pubescens. 
CAPE : Sands near Karakuis, Drege! Hb. Mus. Drit. ; Little Namaqua- 
land, near Klipfontein, M. Bolus No. 4321 Hb. Mus. Brit. ; Piqueiniers 
Kloof, Schlechter No. 4925! Hb. Turic. ; near Paarl, Drege! Hb. Mus. 
Brit. ; Namaqualand, W. €. Scully No. 144! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
Herbaceous, more robust and less branching than C. excisa and with a 
different inflorescence. 
Dr. Schlechter distributed an interesting form with narrow leaflets from 
Windhoek, No. 8334! Hb. Turic. 
276. C. Eexionis, Harvey in Harvey & Sonder, Fl. Cap. ii. 42 (1861-62). 
Diffusa, sericea, gracilis, pubescens. Stipule lineari-lanceolate. Folia 
trifoliolata, foliolis lanceolatis supremis lineari-lanceolatis 20-56 mm. longis 
2-3 mm. latis, utrinque adpresse pubescentibus, petiolo communi 10-40 mm. 
longo instructa. Pedunculi oppositifolii, sepe 2-flori. Flores lutei. 
Bracteole 2, lineares, apicem versus pedicellorum posite. Calyx 10 mm. 
longus, dentibus lineari-lanceolatis 5 mm, longis. Carina 15-14 mm. longa. 
Ovarium lineari-oblongum, circ. 7-ovulatum. 
Care: In rocky places, Olifants River, Clanwilliam, Heklon & Zeyher, Hb. 
Sonder ; Clanwilliam, Herb. Austro-Africanum, J/acowan No. 1833! Hb. 
Mus. Brit. ; Clanwilliam, €. L. Leipoldt No. 729! Hb. Kew. 
This is rather a doubtful species of Crotalaria tending towards Lotononis. 
977, ©. POLYCLADOS, Welw. ex Baker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 17 (1871) ; 
Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. i. 197. 
Herba annua; caulis centralis tenuiter strigoso-pubescens, erectus vel 
