30 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
reaching three-quarters down. Corolla bright yellow, half as long 
again as the calyx, the standard silky on the back. Pod oblong, sessile, 
an inch long, half an inch broad, 15—20-seeded, finally black, thinly 
clothed with grey spreading silky hairs. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
61. C. virgatula, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. i. 56. Stems suf- 
fruticose, 2-8 feet high, with copious ascending curved branches, 
slightly downy upwards. Stipules very minute. Petioles {—} in. 
long, slender. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 
3—} in. long, 14-2 lines broad, mucronate or emarginate, upper surface 
glabrous, lower slightly silky. Flowers in lax elongated terminal 
racemes of 6—9 flowers and also solitary in the axils of many of the 
leaves. Bracts lanceolate, minute. Pedicel } in. long, finely silky. 
Calyx } in. long, thinly silky, the teeth reaching three-quarters of the 
way down, upper lanceolate acuminate, lower linear. Corolla yellowish, 
twice as long as the calyx, standard } in. broad, keel with a long beak. 
Pod sessile, silky, oblong, 4—6-seeded. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 
62. C. florida, Welw. mss. An undershrub with very numerous 
rigidly erecto-patent slender deeply sulcate branches inconspicuously 
grey-downy when young. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 
3, oblanceolate, rather fleshy, rigidly coriaceous when dry, 4—6 lines 
long, blunt with a faint mucro, green, subglabrous when mature. 
Flowers very numerous in sessile terminal racemes which extend down 
among the leaves and form a large thyrsoid panicle. Bracts minute, 
setaceous. Pedicels 1—14 line, finely silky. Calyx } in. long, broadly 
campanulate, finely adpressed silky, the lanceolate-deltoid teeth shorter 
than the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 2 in. long, the obovate blunt 
standard 4 lines broad. Pods sessile, globose, subacute, 4 lines long, 
pointed, 1-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Hauilla, Angola, abundant, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
63. C. Steudneri, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. xviii. 651. 
Stem erect, a foot high, branched from the base, hispid throughout. 
Stipules linear-subulate, } in. long. Petioles hispid }—} in. long. 
Leaflets three, linear, glaucous-green, glabrous above, silky on the 
veins beneath, central one an inch long, } in. broad. Racemes lax- 
flowered, three or four times as long as the leaves. Bracts equalling 
the pedicels. Calyx silky, } in. deep, exceeding its pedicel, cleft half- 
way down, teeth deltoid. Corolla pale yellow, the long-beaked keel 
exceeding the standard and wings, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 
sessile, roundish-oblong, 4 lines long, 10—14-seeded. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Steudner. 
64. C. maxillaris, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 58. Stem 2-3 
ft. long, erect, suffruticose, with long suberect branches, finely downy 
upwards, Stipules minute, setaceous, Petioles 1-1} in, slightly silky. 
