AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 399 
communi 3-5 mm. longo suffulta. Flores longius pedunculati. Legumen 
oviforme, pubescens, 12-15 mm. longum. 
RuopEsrA : Gwelo District, Dr. R. F. Rand No. 50! Hb. Mus. Brit. In 
flower and fruit Jan. 1898. In woods. 
Mr. Gossweiler deseribes the typical forms as a suffruticose and much 
branched undershrub, frequently 4 ft. high, with leaves olive-green above and 
silvery white and tomentose below. Standard violet-blue or pale blue inside, 
Wings and keel yellowish. 
Series 69. Flores mediocres, 1-3 apicem versus pedunculorum dispositi. 
Carina in toto 6-8 mm. longa. — Stipule parva, lin :ari-lanceolatze. 
Legumen subsessile, evlindricum, piloso-hirtum. — Suffrutex ramis pilis 
patentibus obtectus. 
285. C. LororpEs, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Dot. ii. (1843) 575 ; Harvey 
in Harvey $ Sonder, Fl. Cap. ii. 42. 
Suffrutee ramosus, prostratus vel deeumbens, ramulis ferrugineo-pube- 
scentibus et patentim pilosis. Folia irifoliolata, foliolis obovatis circ. 
12 mm. longis subtus vel utrinque pilosis, petiolo: + 12 mm. longo 
suffulta. Pedunculi oppositifolii, folio parum longiores.  Bracteolw ad 
basin calycis conspicue. Calyx pilosulus, + 7 mm. longus, dentibus 
lanceolatis tubo longioribus. Carina in toto 6-8 mm. longa, calyce longior, 
rostro rectiuseulo. Legumen piloso-hirtum, 24-32 mm. longum. 
TRANSVAAL: Macaliesberg and Aapjes River, Burke ! Hb. Kew.; Pieters- 
berg, Bolus No. 11025! Hb. Kew.; Makapansberg, Rehmann No. 5535! 
Hb. Turie.; Houtboseh, Rehmann No. 6256 ! Hb. Kew. 
XRIQUALAND : Kimberley, Rehmann Nos. 3460 ! and 3456 ! Hb. Turic. 
Becuuana Country : Bongquaketse Territory, nr. Mohaneng, Dr. Holub ! 
Hb. Kew. 
Care: Near Grahamstown, Ward! Hb. Kew. 
Series 70. Flores 1-3-ni. Carina 6-8 mm. longa, dorso rotundata, apice 
acuta, plus minusve falcata. — Stipule minute, caduez. — Legumina 
oblongo-obovata, pubescentia, breviter stipitata. Suffrutex ramosus. 
286. C. PAUCIFLORA, Baker in Kew Bull. (1897) 251. 
Erectus. Folia trifoliolata, foliolis obovatis obtusis mucronatis 4-10 mm. 
longis, petiolo communi 3-6 mm. longo suffulta. Flores solitarii vel 1-3-ni. 
Pedicelli cernui, pubescentes. Calyx pilosus, + 6 mm. longus, dentibus 
lanceolatis, Corolla calyce fere duplo longior. Carina dorso rotundata. 
