14 XLVIf, § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Crotalaria, 
shortly grey-downy, the lanceolate ultimately reflexed teeth rather 
exceeding the tube. Corolla red, not conspicuously veined, glabrous, 
9-10 lines deep, the standard 3 in. broad, the keel 1 in. deep, moderately 
incurved, fringed with a dense mass of grey cottony pubescence. Ovary 
glabrous, linear-oblong, shortly-stalked, 15—20-ovulate. Pod not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, at 2400-3800 ft., in sandy meadows, 
Dr. Welwitsch! 
10. C. verrucosa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. 2,125. Stems 2—3ft. high, erect, 
copiously divaricately branched, thinly adpressed gy upwards. 
Stipules large, foliaceous, semi-lunate. Leaves nearly sessile, obovate, 
2-5 in. long, by generally more than half as broad, glabrous above, 
thinly adpressed silky beneath when young. Flowers in lax 6—20- 
flowered terminal and leaf-opposed racemes on peduncles which about 
equal them. Bracts small, setaceous, silky. Calyx campanulate, 
thinly silky, } in. deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the 
way down. Standard twice as long as the calyx, greenish-white, 
streaked with pale-blue within; wings obovate, yellowish-white at 
the base, the rest deep blue; keel whitish-yellow towards the point. 
Pod 1-1} in. long, 4—5 lines thick, rel at the base, silky when 
young, glabrous when mature.—Bot. Mag. t. 3034; C. cerulea, Jacq. 
ce. Pl. Rar. t. 144, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Dr. Welwitsch! Banks of the Gaboon, Mylne! 
Mann! Griffon du Bellay ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, fide Baillon. 
A native both of Tropical Asia and America, and the Mauritius. 
ll. ©. Vogelii, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, 561. Stems 2-3 
ft. high, erect, with numerous erecto-patent branches, covered like the 
rest of the plant with soft spreading yellowish hairs. Leaves mode- 
rately close and numerous, erecto-patent, short-stalked, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 4} in. broad, mucronate, both sides downy. 
Flowers 6-12 in copious lax terminal and lateral racemes. Pedicels 
4—4 in., slender, silky. Calyx 2 lines deep, silky, teeth reaching two- 
thirds of the way down, three upper ones shorter and lanceolate, two 
lower ones longer and linear. Bracts linear, minute. Corolla twice as 
long as the calyx; standard obovate, yellow, veined with purple; 
wings narrow, scarcely veined. Pod 3 in. long, linear-oblong, on a 
short stalk, deciduously silky, 8-12-seeded. ge 
Upper Guinea. Niger country, Stirling on the Quorra, 
stony soil, Barter! 
Vogel! Nupe, in dry 
12. C. Leprieurii, Guill. et Perrott. Fl. Seneg. 168. Stem 11-2 ft. 
high, erect, simple, terete, shortly hairy. Leaves short-stalked simple 
linear-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, hairy on both sides. Flowers in lax 
racemes. Calyx about a line long, silly, teeth lanceolate, nearly equal. 
Standard ovate-oblong, subacute, yellow, striated; wings one-half 
smaller, oblong, obtuse; keel rather longer, yellow. Pod $ in. long 
sessile, about 26-seeded.—Walp. Rep. 1, 590. : 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. Not seen. 
