2 
or 
Crotalaria. } XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 
grey-downy branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 3, 
oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, subglabrous, green, blunt with a mucro. 
Flowers in dense sessile terminal racemes up to 380—40 on the main 
stem. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 1-14 line. Calyx 1 line deep, 
densely brown-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway 
down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, the standard densely 
brown-silky on the back. Pod sessile, roundish, densely silky, 2 lines 
long, 2-4-seeded.—€. gracillima, Klotzsch. loc. cit. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Mininga, Speke and Grant! 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 
Closely allied to the Cape C. globifera, but smaller in all its parts with densely silky, 
usually 2-seeded pods. 
45. C. parvula, Welw. mss. An erect annual under a foot high 
with numerous finely grey-silky spreading branches from the crown of 
the root. Stipules very minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 14-2 
lines. Leaflets 8, oblanceolate, 3-6 lines long, blunt with a distinct 
mucro, slightly grey-silky beneath. Flowers 6—80 in close terminal 
heads } in. broad prolonged into the axils of the upper leaves. Bracts 
minute, setaceous. Pedicels }—1 line, finely silky. Calyx 1 line long, 
silky, the linear-lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla greenish- 
yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod sessile, round, } in. thick, 
glabrescent, at first thinly brown-silky, 2-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Hauilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
46. ©. erythrophleba, Welw. mss. An erect annual reaching 2 
ft. high with numerous long slender ascending branches clothed with 
close fine white silky pubescence. Stipules setaceous, ens minute. 
Petioles 2-8 lines, with a tuft of silvery hairs at the base. Leaflets 3, 
very narrowly oblanceolate, often laterally complicate, 3-4 lines long, 
2-{ line broad, blunt with a mucro, finely argenteous principally be- 
neath. Flowers 6-15 in close terminal heads and much prolonged 
into the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicels $}—1 line densely silvery. 
Calyx } in. long, densely grey-silky, the mouth oblique, the teeth as 
long as the tube. Corolla 4 lines long, bright yellow beautifully veined 
with fine parallel streaks of purple, the long gradually-beaked keel ex- 
ceeding the standard. Ovary oblong, subsessile, finely grey-silky, 2-3- 
ovulate. Pod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
47. ©. prolongata, Baker. An erect sparingly-branched annual 
1-2 ft. high with thick stems densely clothed with brown-silky pubes- 
cence. Stipules setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 9—15 lines. Leatlets 
3, shortly-stalked, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, both sides green, 
upper glabrescent, lower finely silky, the central one 12—18 lines long, 
3-9 lines broad, blunt with a mucro which in the upper leaves 1s 
lengthened out and hooked. Flowers 20-50 in racemes dense and 
cylindrical at the end of the branches, but also laxly prolonged down 
‘nto the axils of the upper leaves, Bracts minute, linear, silky. Pe- 
