124 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
thamnus), but entirely leafless, with very numerous slender wiry 
multisuleate branchlets, glabrous except towards the tip. Proper 
leaves none, the branchlets subtended only at the base by minute 
lanceolate rigid persistent bracts. Flowers few, in lax irregular 
racemes towards the tip of the branchlets, on densely pilose 
pedicels +—3 in. long, with a minute bract at the base. Calyx 
4 in. long, densely pilose, with 5 distinct lanceolate-deltoid teeth 
as long as the tube. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx ; 
standard orbicular, 4 in. broad ; wings and keel a little shorter 
than the standard. Stamens monadelphous, 4 in. long, the tube 
closed along the top in an early stage. Legume cylindrical 1-1 
in. long, } in. broad, rigid in texture, densely persistently white- 
silky, with septa between the small globose seeds.— Central Mada- 
gascar, Baron 1827! A curious plant, entirely leafless so far as 
our material goes. The genus Lebeckia is known at the Cape 
only. 
CROTALARIA ORTHOCLADA, n. 8p. 
Herbacea, perennis, erecta, ramosa, glabra, stipulis foliaceis persistenti- 
bus, foliis petiolatis, digitatim trifoliolatis, foliolis oblanceolatis obtusis, 
racemis terminalibus laxis multifloris, pedicellis calyci zequilongis, bracteis 
caducis minutis, calycis dentibus tubo æquilongis, petalis quam calyx 
duplo longioribus, legumine stipitato lineari-oblongo glabro 6-8-spermo. 
An erect copiously-branched perennial herb, several feet 
high, glabrous in all its parts, with long stiff erecto-patent 
branchlets. Petiole 1-3 in. long; stipules lanceolate, foliaceous, 
persistent, as long as the petiole; leaflets 1-3 in. long, shortly 
petiolulate, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous 
on both surfaces, l-nerved. Flowers 6-12 in lax terminal pe- 
duncled racemes; pedicels -4 in. long. Calyx 1-l in. long; 
teeth lanceolate-deltoid, as long as the campanulate tube. Co- 
rolla twice as long as the calyx ; standard orbieular; keel } in. 
deep in the centre. Legume linear-oblong, brown, glabrous, 
1-i in. long, with a stipe as long as the calyx.—Central Mada- 
gascar, Baron 2063! Closely allied to C. goreensis, Guill. & 
Perot., as is also the next species. 
CROTALARIA TENUIS, n. sp, 
Herbacea, perennis, glabra, caulibus gracillimis basi decumbentibus, 
stipulis magnis foliaceis persistentibus, foliis petiolatis digitatim trifolio- 
Jatis, foliolis oblanceolatis, racemis laxis paucifloris terminalibus, pedicellis 
calyci zquilongis, bracteis minutis caducis, calycis segmentis lanceolato- 
