34 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
line long, setaceous, persistent. Pedicels 2—3 lines, finely grey-downy. 
Calyx } in., finely grey-downy, the lanceolate-acuminate teeth exceed- 
ing the tube. Corolla 4 lines, yellow, the standard conspicuously 
striated with purple, the keel abruptly hooked. Pod distinctly stalked, 
linear, 12-15 lines long, 34-4 lines broad, finely grey-downy, gla- 
brescent, 20—30-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
74. C. comosa, Baker. An erect annual, 2-3 ft. high, with erect 
short unbranched or sparingly-branched stout sulcate stems finely 
brown-silky throughout. Stipules 0. Petioles 1-2 in. long. Leatlets 
3, shortly-stalked, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, reaching 3-4 
in. long, 8-12 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, green and glabrescent 
above, glaucous and finely silky beneath. Flowers in very dense termi- 
nal heads reaching 6-9 in. long, 8-9 lines broad, comose in bud with 
the setaceous bracts, which are 38-4 lines long, silky and persistent. 
Pedicels }—1 line long, densely brown-silky. Calyx 2-24 lines, densely 
silky, with a setaceous bracteole at the base as long as itself, the linear 
teeth equalling the tube. Corolla bright yellow, nearly twice the calyx, 
both keel and standard very conspicuously streaked with purple. Pod 
Se linear-oblong, 6~7 lines long’, 24 lines broad, finely silky, 12-15- 
seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
75. C. natalitia, Meissn. in Hook. Lond. Journ, ii. 67. Suffruticose, 
erect, with numerous long erecto-patent straight finely grey-downy 
branches. Stipules foliaceous, persistent, semilunate, 1-3 in. Petioles 
4-8 lines, erecto-patent. Leatlets 3, reaching an inch long, upper 
linear or oblanceolate, 2-3 lines broad, lower obovate-oblong, upper 
surface glabrescent, lower finely grey-downy. Flowers 6-10 in copious 
lax short-peduncled terminal racemes 12-15 lines broad. Bracts 
linear, 2-3 lines, soon falling. Pedicels 8-4 lines, erecto-patent, finely 
downy. Calyx 4 lines, downy, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. 
Corolla twice the calyx, dull reddish in the dried plant; standard 8-9 
lines broad. Ovary short-stalked, linear, glabrous, multiovulate. Pod 
unknown (in the Natal plant linear-oblong, 12-15 lines long, 5—6 lines 
broad).—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 46. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
76. C. platysepala, Hurv. Thes. Cap. t. 29. Shrubby, with finely 
grey-downy slender branches. Stipules minute, setaceous. ’Petioles 4-6 
lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, green and glabrous above finely grey- 
downy below, blunt with a mucro, the central one 8-9 lines long. 
Flowers 10—80 in lax peduncled terminal racemes, reaching 5-6 in. 
long, an inch broad. racts setaceous, very minute. Pedicels 13-2 
lines, finely grey-downy. Calyx 2 lines, finely grey-downy, the teeth, 
which reach over halfway down, oblanceolate-spathulate with a distinct 
cusp. Corolla bright yellow, 4-44 lines, not streaked; the standard 
