Crotalaria. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). a 
about a line long. Leaflets three, sessile, obovate, 1-14 lines long by 
about half as broad, coriaceous, upper surface grey, glabrous, lower 
thinly silky. Flowers solitary or in pairs from the axils of the leaves 
on cernuous pedicels, about equalling the calyx, which is thinly silky, 
3 in. deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching more than halfway down. 
Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod oblong, }—2 in. long, 
more than half as broad, short-stalked, glabrous, 10- to 15-seeded.— 
Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 573; C. pumila, Hochst. et Steud. in 
Schimp. Pl. Arab. No. 788. 
Nile Land. Coast of Nubia, Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, teste Schweinfurth. 
Also Arabian and Egyptian. 
20. C. podocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 183, Stems herbaceous, erect, 
1-2 feet high, with copious erecto-patent branches thinly clothed with 
long yellowish silky hairs, Stipules lanceolate-falcate, }—} in. long, 
persistent. Petioles 1-1} in. long, silky, erecto-patent. Leaves with 
three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central one 1—1$ in. long, }-3 in. 
broad, mucronate, both sides thinly silky. Flowers only 2—3 together 
in long-stalked clusters in the axils of the leaves. Bracts minute, se- 
taceous. Calyx silky, 3 in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching 
three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the 
calyx; standard 4 lines broad, not striated, glabrous; keel with a dis- 
tinct beak 1 in. long. Pod with a stalk half as long as the calyx, 
$-1 in. long, } in. thick, glabrous, 12-18 seeded.—Guill. et Perr. F'., 
Seneg. 166; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 589; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
1.158; C. pilifera and arvensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 54; 
C. physocarpa, Fenzl. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, to the borders of the Sahara, Perrottet! Bidjem! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Nubia, Kotschy t 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters ! 
Abyssinian name, Seppere-quasot, according to Schweinfurth. 
21. C. polyclados, Welw. mss. A glabrous annual, very copiously 
branched at the crown of the root, with diffuse slender rigid dichoto- 
mously-forked stems half a foot long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pe- 
tioles 2-4 lines. Leaflets 3, linear, dark green, glabrous, rather fleshy, 
acute, 6-18 lines long, a line or less broad. Flowers always solitary, 
usually terminal, on slender peduncles 6-18 lines long with a linear 
bract a little below the flower. Calyx 34}—4 lines long, the lanceolate- 
acuminate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla slightly 
exceeding the calyx, the standard orbicular, pale blue, 4 lines broad, 
the keel pale yellow. Pod oblong, distinctly stalked, glabrous, 6-5 
lines long, 4 lines broad, 10~12-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, at 5500 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! 
22. C. spinosa, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 150. Stem annual 
only, but almost fruticose in the lower part, 6-18 in. long, the upper part 
covered with short grey pubescence, with copious spreading branches and 
usually with abundant long sharp spines downwards, — 
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