24 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEZ (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
41. C. nutans, Welw. mss. A copiously dichotomously-branched 
annual, 14-2 feet high with finely yellow-grey silky branches. Stipules 
linear, deciduous. Petioles 9-12 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 
12-18 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, blunt with a very faint mucro, 
glabrous above when mature, finely adpressed-silky beneath. Flowers 
very numerous in moderately dense terminal racemes reaching 6-8 
inches long, 9-10 lines broad. Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels 
1 line long, densely silky, finally cernuous. Calyx 1 line long, densely 
silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla 
4 lines long, bright yellow ; standard ovate, acute; keel long-beaked. 
Pod subglobose, 2-24 lines long, turgid, glabrescent, 2-seeded, dis- 
tinctly stipitate. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
49. C. filicaulis, Welw. mss. An erect annual about a foot high; 
stems densely finely grey-silky, very slender with a few rigid erecto- 
patent branches, the whole plant turning blackish when dried. 
Stipules 0. Petioles 1-1} line. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, linear, 
3-6 lines long, 4-} line broad, acute, slightly grey-silky beneath. 
Flowers in elongated very narrow terminal racemes, up to 12—15 on 
the main stem. Bracts linear, very minute. Pedicels $—1 line, rigidly 
suberect, densely grey-silky. Calyx 1-1} line, densely grey-silky, the 
teeth reaching down nearly to the base, the upper lanceolate, the lower 
linear. - Corolla nearly twice the calyx, yellow, turning blackish when 
dried, the standard clothed on the back with persistent grey-silky hairs. 
Pod sessile, roundish, glabrescent, at first finely grey-silky, 2 lines 
long, 1—2-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
43. C. tenuirama, Weiw. mss. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high with 
very numerous slender straight erecto-patent finely grey-downy 
branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-8 lines. Leaflets 3 (uppermost 
leaves casually simple), oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, blunt with a 
mucro, pale green above, glaucous and thinly grey-silky beneath. 
Flowers in terminal elongated narrow racemes, up to 12-20 on the main 
stems, casually but not usually prolonged into the axils of the upper 
leaves. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels $-1 line, finely grey-silky. 
Calyx } in., finely grey-silky, the lanceolate acuminate teeth equalling 
the tube. Corolla bright a twice the calyx, the standard streake 
with purple, quite glabrous on the back. Pod sessile, roundish-oblong 
finely silky, 1-2-seeded. : 
Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! Very 
near C. hyssopifolia, 
We have imperfect specimens of a closely-allied plant, without frait, from Sierra 
Leone, Morson! and Senegambia, Heudelot ! which approaches C. hyssopifolia, by its 
smaller corolla and closer racemes. : 
44, ©. hyssopifolia, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 55. An 
erect annual reaching 1}-2 ft. high with numerous ascending finely 
