AFRICAN SPECIES OF CROTALARIA. 407 
naviculariformis, vexillo superans, 15-18 mm. longa, pallide flavescens. 
Legumen oblongum, 16-26 mm. longum, stipite 4-6 mm. longo suffultum, 
glabrum, 12-18 + spermum. 
This species is widely spread in Eritrea, Abyssinia, Upper Guinea, German 
and Portuguese East Africa, Angola, German South-west Africa, and North 
Rhodesia. The type was collected on the Plains of the Walo country about 
Richard Tol and beyond the river on the borders of the Sahara desert, 
Leprieur and Perrottet No. 167! 
C. arvensis, Klotzsch, is a diffuse, very branched plant with cuneate-oblong 
leaflets. It was collected at Rios de Sena, Mozambique. It was also 
collected by Menyharth No. 1009 in Boruma. 
C. pilifera, Klotzsch, has elliptical leaflets, and is erect, very branched, 
and densely pilose. It comes from Mesuril and Cabaceira in Mozambique. 
Var. VILLOSA, Schinz in Verhand!, Bot. Ver. Brand. xxx. (1889) 160. 
Annua, e basi ramosa, breviter. villosa. Foliola cuneato-oblonga vel 
oblongo-obovata, 12-25 mm. longa 5-6 mm. lata. Flores mediocres, 
subsolitarii. Legumen oblongum, glabrum. 
AMBOLAND : Olukonda, Rautanen No. 369! Hb. Turic. 
A slender annual, with subsolitary flowers and cuneate-oblong leaves. 
Subsp. C. FLEXUOSA, Baker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Ajr. ii. 29 (1871), 
pro sp. 
Evecta, herbacea, e basi ramosa, 20-30 em. alta, ubique patentim pilosa 
vel hirta.  Stipule foliacea, falcate. Foliola oblongo-elliptica, elliptica 
vel oblongo-obovata, 20-40 mm. longa 7-14 mm. lata, petiolo communi 
12-30 mm. longo. Flores mediocres, in racemos paucifloros dispositi. 
Bractew lineares. Calycis lacinie lanceolate, tubo longiores. — Veaillum 
carinæ fere squilongum. Carina dorso genuflexa, cire. 15 mm. longa. 
Legumen oviforme, +20 mm. longum, glabrum ; stipes 3-4 mm. longus. 
SOUTH CENTRAL: In the interior near the Tropic, Chapman & Baines ! 
Hb. Kew. 
NaAMILAND : Kwebe Hills, Mrs. E. J. Lugard No. 179! Hb. Kew. 
PomroGvEsE East AFRICA : Zambesiland, Kirk! Hb. Kew. 
Very closely allied to C. podocarpa, DC.; type differs in being more 
hairy, ete. 
On the sheet of the type there is an admixture of two species, the pod 
being that of C. hispida, Schinz. 
Subsp. C. BrLokm, Schinz in Bot. Ver. Brand. xxx. (1888) 159, 
pro sp. 
Erecta, elata, ramosa, patentim rufo vel fusco-pilosa, circ. 5-6 dm. alta. 
Stipule foliaceæ, conspicue, 16-22 mm. longs, acute. Foliola elliptica, 
