In spite of its attractions this shrub does not appear to 
have got into general cultivation in Europe; but it was 
early introduced into the island of St. Helena and eastern 
extra-tropical South America, where it has become 
naturalized. There is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium 
from the Montpellier Botanic Garden taken in 1821. 
Crotalaria capensis, Jacq., inhabits the south-eastern 
districts of Cape Colony, and extends northward to Natal. 
It is most nearly related to C. Natalitia, Meisn., which has 
distinctly angular branches and lanceolate stipules. 
The plant figured is growing in the Temperate House at 
Kew, where it flowers freely in the autumn. The pod 
figured is from a wild specimen, collected in Fish River 
Heights, Albany, in 1880, by H. Hutton. One of the 
seeds taken from the pod began to germinate after being 
a week in water. 
Deser.—A branching, evergreen shrub, five to ten feet 
high, but flowering when quite small, early glabrescent. 
Branches slender, at first clothed with a silky tomentum ; 
internodes usually much shorter than the leaves. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, trifoliolate, in cultivated specimens 
sometimes as much as six inches long, usually smaller; 
leaflets shortly petiolulate, thin, obovate or oblanceolate, 
the largest two inches long, cuneate at the base, rounded 
at the tip, apiculate, soon glabrous. Stipules similar to 
the leaflets, but smaller. Racemes terminal, overtopping 
the leaves, seven- to fifteen-flowered ; bracts linear, very 
acute, about half as long as the pedicels; pedicels about 
half an inch long, slightly puberulous as well as the calyx. 
Plowers fragrant, yellow, striped with red-brown, about an 
inch and a half in their greatest diameter. Calya-tube 
almost globular (filled with honey, according to Jacquin) ; 
lobes nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading, 
three to four lines long. Standard-petal orbicular, apicu- 
late, reflexed, about an inch in diameter; wing-petals 
relatively small, obliquely ovate; keel-petals strongly 
curved, beaked, free at the base, connate above, enclosing 
the stamens and style. Anthers all attached by the base, 
Ovary stalked, puberulous; ovules numerous; style sud- 
denly curved upwards, hairy along the upper edge. Pod 
inflated, thin, hard, tough, glabrous, club-shaped, thicker 
