40 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
within filled with entangled fine silky hairs —Benth. in Lond. Journ. 
Bot. ii. 583. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Schweinfurth ! 
Distinguished from all the other species by the pod being filled with wool, so that it 
is most likely the C. farcta, mentioned by name only by R. Brown in Salt’s Travels. 
93. C. cylindrocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 133. Stem suffruticose, 
erect, branched from the base, 14-2 ft. high, slightly downy. Stipules 
1-1 in. long, erect, semilunate, persistent. Petioles spreading, 1-1} in. 
long. Leaflets three elliptic-oblong, pale green, scarcely pubescent 
beneath, narrowed towards the base and about as long as the petiole. 
Flowers in lateral and terminal racemes. Calyx silky, cut down to a 
shallow cup, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla yellow, middle sized ; 
standard } in. long, oval, striate. Pod sessile, oblong-cylindrical, sub- 
compressed, an inch long, short-silky, 10—12-seeded.—Guill. et Perr. 
Fl. Seneg. 164. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Roger! Guinea, banks of the Gaboon, 
Duparquet (fide Baillon). 
94. C. recta, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1083. Stems suf- 
fruticose, 2-3 ft. high, only thinly silky when young, soon quite gla- 
brous. Stipules 2-3 lines, linear, persistent. Petioles 9-12 lines. 
Leatlets 3, shortly-stalked, glaucous, glabrous, obovate, reaching 
25-3 in. long, 12-15 lines broad, blunt with a mucro. Flowers i 
moderately lax terminal racemes reaching a foot long. Bracts linear, 
persistent, 2-3 lines. Pedicels 2-4 lines. Calyx 2 in. broadly cam- 
panulate, glabrous, the teeth equalling the tube, the upper ones deltoid, 
the lower lanceolate. Corolla } in. long, the standard exceeding the 
wings and keel. Pod subsessile, 18-21 lines long, 4 in. thick, turgid, 
glabrescent, 20—24-seeded.—Ferret et Gal. Voy. Abyss. 121, t. 10. @ 
simplex, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 153. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Waller! 
95. C. faleata, Vahl; DC. Prodr. ii. 132. Stem fruticose, 2-3 ft. 
high, diffusely and divaricately branched, slightly silky upwards. 
Stipules none. Petioles 1 in. long. Leaflets 3, obovate subsessile, 
central 1-1} in. long, 3-1 in. broad, apex rounded mucronate, uppet 
surface glabrous, lower slightly silky in the young plant. Flowers im 
long-stalked lax terminal and lateral racemes. Bracts minute. Pedicels 
1 line long, silky, erecto-patent. Calyx slightly silky, 1 in. long, the 
teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down, "Corolla yellow, rather 
more than twice as long as the calyx, keel much upeurved. Pod 
sessile, cylindrical, 1-1} in. long, } in. thick, very silky when young, 
15—20-seeded.—Benth. in. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 585. ©. ‘striata, 
Schum. et Thon, Pl. Guin. 336, non DC. ? 
Upper Guinea. Niger country, Ansell! Vogel! More shrubby than C. striata, 
with shorter petioles, smaller flowers, and broader leaflets, 
