32 XLVIL. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
lines long, glabrescent above, slightly silky beneath. Racemes both 
lateral and terminal, laxly 6—12-flowered, 2-4 in. long on peduncles 
1-4 in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1-1} lines, silky. 
Calyx } in. long, with two setaceous bracteoles at the base, clothed 
with spreading brown hairs, the lanceolate teeth reaching three- 
quarters of the way down. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again 
as the calyx; standard } in. broad. Pod subsessile, linear-oblong, 
12-18 lines long, 3—} in. broad, turgid, clothed with fine spreading 
hairs like those of the stem, 20-30-seeded.—C. Schimperi, A, Rich. Fl. 
Abyss. i. 151. Chrysocalya Schimperi, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 
No, 394. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Sierra Leone, G. Don! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Roth! 
Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, but perhaps an introduction in the Old World. 
68. C. Grantii, Baker. Suffruticose, the firm green terete divari- 
cate branches clothed with short grey fine spreading pubescence. 
Stipules setaceous, 2-8 lines, persistent. Petioles 1-2 inches, Leaf- 
lets 38, obovate, reaching 15-18 lines long, 9-10 lines broad, bluntish 
with a mucro, both sides green, upper glabrous, lower thinly silky. 
Racemes lateral and terminal, short-stalked, laxly 6—12-flowered. 
Pedicels } in., silky, Calyx 3—? in. long, densely clothed with long 
spreading brown-silky hairs, with two small lanceolate bracteoles at 
the base, the lanceolate teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. 
Corolla half as long again as the calyx; standard brown-silky on the 
back. Pod subsessile, linear-oblong, 18-24 lines long, 9~10 lines 
ae turgid, clothed with fine pale brown spreading hairs, 80—40- 
seeded. 
Nile Land. Right bank of the Nile in 5° N. lat. (as C. incana, L.), Speke and 
Grant ! 
69. C. Stewartii, Baker. A sparingly-branched annual, 2-3 ft. 
high, with moderately robust branches, clothed with fine spreading 
greyish hairs. Stipules setaceous, persistent, 4-6 lines long. Petioles 
13-2 in. Leaflets 3, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed eradually 
from the middle to a cuspidate point, reaching 2-24 in. long, 9—12 lines 
broad, membranous, both: sides with a few adpressed hairs. Racemes 
lax, 3-12-flowered, reaching 4—5 in. long, both terminal and lateral. 
Pedicels } in. Bracts 0. Calyx 6-7 lines deep, densely clothed with 
long oe brown-silky hairs, bibracteolate at the ase, the teeth 
lanceolate, 14—2 lines broad, reaching three quarters of the way down. 
Corolla } as long again as the calyx, purplish, the standard 3 in. broad, 
thinly silky on the back, the keel narrowed gradually into a long beak. 
Pod (only seen immature) sessile, oblong, densely brown-silky, 10—12- 
seeded. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Stewart! 
70, C. fulgida, Baker. An erect annual, 12-18 in. high, very 
copiously branched at the crown of the root; branches 2-3 times 
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forked, clothed with fine spreading grey hairs. Stipules foliaceous, 
