Crotalaria. } XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 19 
Pod sessile, very silky, 2 in. long, half as broad, 10-12-seeded.—C. 
levigata 8. villosior, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 577. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk / 
The Mascarene C. levigata, Lam., differs by its obovate leaflets, longer petiole 
(3 in. long), and glabrous stem, leaves, and pods. Our plant may be a variety of 
C. spinosa. 
26. C. variegata, Welw. mss. An undershrub with very diffuse 
flexuose wide-trailing slender densely grey tov ty. branches 1-2 ft. 
long, 2-4 times forked, the uppermost branchlets divaricate with their 
leaves much reduced. Stipules linear, 1-2 lines. Petioles equalling 
or slightly exceeding the stipules. Leaflets 8, obovate, distinctly 
stalked, rigidly coriaceous, upper surface grey-green, glabrous, lower 
covered with dense close persistent brownish or grey silky pubescence, 
the central one 12-16 lines long, 7—9 lines broad, blunt with a faint 
mucro, Flowers 1—4 together in copious short-peduncled lateral and 
terminal umbels. Pedicels 1-2 lines, densely grey-downy. Bracts 
minute, linear, persistent. Calyx 23-8 lines long, densely grey-downy, 
the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla half as long again as 
the calyx, standard violet, keel and wings yellow. Pod sessile, oblong, 
finely grey-downy, 4—5 lines long, Wen red 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
27. C. ervoides, Welw. mss. A diffuse perfectly glabrous under- 
shrub with ascending slender branches 1-2 ft. long, 2-8 times dicho- 
tomously forked. Stipules rigid, lanceolate, foliaceous, }—} in. long, 
with one distinct tooth on the outer margin. Petioles 3-6 lines long. 
Leaflets 3, linear, rigid, acute, the central one 8—12 lines long, 1—2 
lines broad, both sides green, strongly-veined. Flowers few, 1-2 to- 
potter on short lateral and terminal peduncles. Calyx glabrous, 3}—4 
ines long, the teeth reaching more than halfway down, the upper ones 
lanceolate, the lower linear. Corolla pale yellow, with a tinge of 
violet, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod oblong, sessile, glabrous, 
12-15 lines long, 6~7 lines thick, 6—8-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, in damp meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 
28. C. abscondita, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 1-2 ft. high, 
with numerous ascending straight branches clothed with fine spreading 
soft grey or brownish hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves close, 
humerous, erecto-patent, quite sessile; leaflets 3, lanceolate, acute, 
6—9 lines long, both sides thinly clothed with hairs like those of the 
stem. Flowers 6-15 in very dense sessile terminal heads, scarcely 
pedicellate. Bracts linear, as long as the calyx. Calyx 34 lines long, 
densely silky, the linear teeth reaching much more than halfway down. 
Corolla yellowish, scarcely as long as the calyx. Pod roundish, turgid, - - 
Sessile, hard, densely silky, 3-3} lines long, 4—5-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
29. C. Perrottetii, DC. Prod. 2, 128. Stem herbaceous, 1—? ft., 
silky, branched from the base. Stipules small, linear. Leaves nearly 
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