Crotalaria. | XLVII, § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER), 33 
semilunate, persistent, 3-3 in. long. Petioles 6-12 lines. Leaflets 3, 
oblanceolate, the young ones clothed like the stem, the old ones gla- 
brescent, blunt, with a mucro, reaching 12-15 lines long, 2-4 lines 
broad, Flowers 4—12, in very lax, copious, lateral and terminal, long- 
and-short-peduncled racemes more than an inch broad. Bracts obso- 
lete. Pedicels 2-8 lines, finely silky. Calyx 4 lines, with a pair of 
deciduous lanceolate bractlets at the base as tong as itself; teeth lanceo- 
late-acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla bright yellow, not striated, 
8-9 lines long, glabrous; standard ovate, 8—9 lines broad. Ovary dis- 
tinctly stalked, linear, glabrescent. Pod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy deserts, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
71. ©. lachnocarpa. Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 780. Stem 3-6 
ft. high, suffruticose, branched, deeply striate, densely clothed with 
long bright brown silky hairs. Stipules 4 in. subfalcate, acute, per- 
sistent. Petioles 3-1 in. long. Leaves with three oblong-obovate 
subsessile leaflets, central 14-83 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, both sides 
thinly silky. Flowers in dense usually terminal racemes, sometimes 
6 in. long. Pedicels + in., very silky. Calyx 4~—3? in. long, densely 
tomentose, cut three quarters of the way down, upper lobes oblong- 
lanceolate, lower longer and narrower. ‘Corolla bright yellow, half or 
a third as long again as the calyx; petals very thick, standard }~3 in. 
broad. Pod sessile, 1-1} in. long, $ in. thick, densely clothed with 
close-spreading bright brown silky tomentum, 16—18-seeded.  C. lach- 
nophora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 151. 
Upper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Barter ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! and others. _ 
Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
72. C, decumbens, Welw. mss. Annual with trailing moderately- 
branched stems reaching 2 ft. long, densely clothed upwards with 
spreading brownish hairs. Stipules semilunate, foliaceous, 3—4 lines 
long. Petioles spreading, 3-6 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, the 
central one 12-21 lines long, subacute, mucronate, both sides green, 
with a few short adpressed grey hairs. Flowers 6-10, in close long- 
peduncled terminal heads. Bracts linear, 3-4 lines. Pedicels downy, 
1j-2 lines. Calyx 3 lines, downy, the lanceolate teeth as long as the 
tube. Corolla twice the calyx, yellowish ; keel purplish. Ovary linear, 
sessile, silky, multiovulate. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
23. C, uncinata, Welw. mss. Herbaceous, diffuse, 14-2 feet high, 
with finely grey-downy branches 2-3 times forked; branchlets erecto- 
atent. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 6-12 lines. Leaflets 3, 
anceolate-o long, narrowed gradually to a mucronate point, glabrous 
above, faintly grey-down one the central one reaching 12-18 lines 
ong, 5-8 lines broad. Flowers up to 20-25 in copious lax usually 
terminal racemes reaching 6-8 in. long, and an inch broad. ge a 
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