28 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
54, C. versicolor, Baker. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high with 
numerous long finely grey-downy branches curving upwards from the 
crown of the root. Stipules setaceous, 4-3 in. long. Petioles 3-6 
lines. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate-oblong, blunt with a mucro, 
reaching 2-3 in. long, 12-18 lines broad, glabrescent above, finely 
erey-silky beneath. Flowers 6-12 in moderately lax short-peduncled 
lateral racemes 12-15 lines broad. Bracts setaceous, 1—1} line. 
Pedicels 14-2 lines, patent or cernuous, densely grey-silky. Calyx 
4 in. long, coriaceous, thinly grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth ({ im. 
broad) reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla slightly exceeding 
the calyx when expanded, reddish-blue and yellow, the standard gla- 
brous on the back. Pod distinctly stalked, an inch long, 6—? lines 
broad, inconspicuously grey-downy, 8—12-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
55. ©. Doniana, Baker. Stem firm-herbaceous, prostrate, more 
than « foot long, terete, finely-downy, irregularly branched. Stipules 0. 
Petioles an inch long, spreading, finely-downy. Leatlets 3, sessile, 
oblong, terminal one 13~13 in. long by about half as broad, narrowed 
to both ends, membranous glabrous and green on both sides. Flowers 
in few-flowered lax lateral racemes. Pedicels 2 lines long, silky, with 
small linear-setaceous bracts at the base. Corolla not seen. Pod 
pe above an inch long, } in. broad, glabrous, with a pedicel 4 in. 
ong. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! Resembles C. orixensis in general 
habit and pod, but the pedicels short and bracts minute. 
56. ©. Onobrychis, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 154. Stem 12 ft. high, 
erect, branched, the branches downy, striated. Stipules minute. Leaves 
stalked, leaflets oblong-obovate or elliptical or sublanceolate, acute, 
silky beneath. Flowers in many-flowered elongated terminal or lateral 
racemes. Bracts linear. Calyx silky, teeth equal, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute. Corolla under } in. long, purplish, veined, the standard narrow- 
Pod oblong, inflated, 4 in. long, glabrous, short-stalked. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. 
: 5 “Flowers in form and general aspect 
like those of Onobrychis sativa.” Not seen. 
57. ©. goreensis, Guill. et Perrott. Fl. Seneg. i. 165. Stem herba- 
ceous or suffruticose, 1—3 ft. high, copiously branched, finely-pubescent 
throughout, branches erecto-patent deeply striated. Stipules large, 
lanceolate-faleate, 3-3 in. long. Petioles erecto-patent, slightly silky, 
1-13 in. long. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 
1-3 in. long, }-? in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, under 
more or less finely silky. Flowers in sessile terminal racemose heads, 
those of the main stem dense 12—20-flowered, those of the branches 
4—6-flowered. Bracts minute deciduous. Pedicels 1-13 lines long, 
silky. Calyx 3—4 lines aid very silky, the teeth lanceolate, reaching 
haltway down. Corolla yellow, tinged with red, twice as long as the 
calyx, not striated. Pod sessile, 3-2 in. long, half as thick, oblong, 
