42 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Crotalaria. 
100. C. lotifolia, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 134. Fruticose, with straight 
finely grey-silky branches. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. 
Petioles 13-2 in., erecto-patent. Leaflets 3, obovate-oblong, elabrous 
above, finely grey-silky below, bluntish, emarginate or faintly mucro- 
nate, reaching 2—3 in. long, 12—18 lines broad. Flowers 1—4 together 
in the axils of many of the leaves, if more than one racemose or um- 
bellate. Pedicels 8-6 lines. Bracts linear, very minute. Calyx ¢ in., 
oe erey-silky, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla 
nearly twice the calyx, yellow, faintly veined. Pod distinetly-stalked, 
glabrescent, 14-2 in. long, } in. broad, 12—15-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Coast, Dr. Vogel ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A well-known very distinct West India species. 
101. C. platycalyx, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 860. Stem 
2 ft. high, herbaceous, erect, slightly branched, thinly silky upwards. 
Stipules } in. long, spreading, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 14-2 in. 
long, slender, erecto-patent, slightly silky. Leaflets 3, subsessile, the 
central one 2-2} in. long, 14 in. broad, acuminate, both sides nearly 
glabrous. Flowers in few-Howered lax stalked lateral racemes. Pedicel 
+ in. long, erecto-patent, with two small lanceolate bracteoles at the 
base and two large ovate bracteoles below the calyx. Calyx slightly 
silky, 3 in. deep, teeth foliaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way 
down, the three lower ones lanceolate-spathulate, 2 lines broad, two 
upper ones nearly twice as broad, straight on the lower, broadly 
rounded on the upper side. Corolla yellow; keel long-beaked and 
much upeurved. Pod long-stalked, oblong-cylindrical, 11-1} in. long, 
8 in. broad, glabrous, many-seeded.—Phyllocalyx Quartinianus, A. Rich. 
Fi. Abyss. i. 160, t. 34. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon. 
102. C. Quartiniana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 158. Stem a foot long. 
herbaceous, with diffuse spreading branches, thinly clothed with 
spreading silky hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous. “Petiole 14 in., 
silky, herbaceous. Leaflets 3, subsessile broad-oblong, central 13 in. 
long, 3-1 in. broad, acuminate, the upper surface glabrous, lower 
thinly silky. Flowers in lax long-stalked lateral racemes of 3—4 flowers 
each. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, g-1 in. long. Calyx 4 in. long, 
teeth lanceolate, foliaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way down, 
two upper ones % in. broad, oblique. Corolla reddish, slightly exceed- 
ing the calyx; standard 3 in. broad. Pod glabrous, with a pedicel din, 
long, 1-1} in. long, 3—4 in. thick. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon. Roth! 
Habit of C. oriwensis and curtipoda, but the pod longer, and flowers larger. 
103. ©. polysperma, Kotschy in Schweinf. Relig, Kots. 18, t. 14. 
Herbaceous, densely rufo-villose. Stipules linear, 3 lines. Petioles 
