Crotalaria, ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 39 
grey-pubescent. Stipules linear, 6-9 lines, persistent. Petioles reach- 
ing 2-21 in. Teatets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate, 14-8 in. long, 
12-18 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro, glaucous, glabrous. 
Flowers in lax terminal racemes reaching a foot long. Bracts minute, 
setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels 2—8 lines. Calyx subglabrous, 3 in. 
the tube very shallow, the teeth linear-lanceolate. Standard violet- 
blue internally, slightly exceeding the calyx; wings and keel sulphur- 
yellow, shorter. Ovary short-stalked, linear-oblong, thinly grey-silky. 
Pod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 
90. ©. Lotononis, Welw. mss. Herbaceous, diffuse, glabrous, 
copiously branched, a foot or more high. Stipules 38—5 lines, setaceous, 
persistent. Petioles 9-15 lines. Leaflets 3, rather fleshy, glabrous, 
subcoriaceous when dried, lanceolate, subacute or bluntish with a 
mucro, reaching 18-21 lines long, the upper 4-8, the lower } in. 
broad. Flowers up to 12-18 in copious lax short-peduncled lateral 
and terminal subsecund racemes. Bracts 14 line, setaceous, seiner 
Pedicels 15-2 lines, glabrous, cernuous. Calyx 2 in., glabrous, the 
lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla glabrous, reddish when 
dried, just equalling the calyx. Ovary short-stalked, linear, glabrous, 
ovules about 20. Pod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, in damp sand, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
91. ©. cyanea, Buker. A perfectly glabrous erect annual under a 
foot high with a few open very slender branches. Stipules minute, 
Setaceous. Petioles 1-2 in. Leaflets 3, lanceolate, 12-21 lines long, 
4-8 lines broad, subacute, those of the lower leaves shorter and 
blunter. Flowers 4—6 in very lax lateral and terminal distinctly- 
stalked racemes. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels in flower 14-2 
lines, finally 3-4 lines, cernuous. Calyx 1 in., the linear teeth reach- 
ing down nearly to the base. Corolla whitish-green, the standard 
Violet, just as long as the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, with a pedicel as 
long as the calyx, 9-10 lines long, 3 in. broad, glabrous without and 
within, thin, 18—20-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, 5500 ft., in pastures, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
92. C. lupinoides, Hochst. in Herb. Kotschy Nub. No. 41. Stem suf- 
fruticose, the branches long, spreading, curved, upper part thinly silky. 
Stipules none. Petioles about 1 in. long, glabrous, more Leaflets 
three subsessile oblong-obovate, central 1-1} in. long, 4-7 in. broad, 
upper surface glabrous, the lower thinly silky. Flowers in elongate 
many-flowered lax stalked terminal and lateral racemes, the main ones 
ultimately 8-12. in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels silky, 
cernuous, } in. long. Calyx slightly silky, 2-3 lines deep, teeth lan- 
ceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla bright yellow, not 
Striated, } in. deep. Pod short-stalked, cylindrical, much curved up- 
wards, 8-10 lines long, under } in. thick, silky on the outside, and 
