Tas. 7306. 
CROTALARIA 1Lonetrostrata. 
Native of Mewico. 
Nat. Ord. Lzeguminosm. Tribe Gentstes. 
Genus Crorararia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. SJ. Gen, Pl. vol. i. 479.) 
CROTALARIA, longirostrata; suffruticosa, ramis elongatis gracilibus glabris, 
foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo- v. cuneato-obovatis utrinque rotun- 
datis apice mucronulatis, supra glabris subtus incanis et brevissime 
appresse pilosis, stipulis bracteisque minutis subulatis deciduis, racemis 
erectis elongatis multifloris, calyce glabriusculo late campanulato, “lobis 
tubo hemispherico triplo longioribus incurvis acuminatis, 2 superioribus 
ovatis 3 inferioribus lanceolatis, vexillo amplo latiore quam longo, 
reflexo emarginato alis oblongis paullo longiore, ungue ciliato, carin 
petalis breviter stipitatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, legumine elliptico- 
cylindraceo vix puberulo, sutura ventrali profunde sulcata. 
C. lonigirostrata, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 285, 414, Walp. Rep. 
Bot. vol. i. p. 594. Hemstl. in Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. vol. i. p. 226. 
A very handsome greenhouse plant, described as suffru- 
ticose, but, though copiously branched, herbaceous as 
grown in the Royal Gardens, where it forms a conspicuous 
winter feature in the Begonia house, flowering freely from 
December to March, and attaining a yard in height. It 
was discovered by the late Dr. Sinclair, Surgeon in H.M. 
_ Blossom during the Surveying Voyage of Capt. Beechey, at 
Acapulco on the west coast of Mexico, and also in 
the province Jalisco by other officers of the ship, and on 
the Volcano de Fuego in Guatemala, alt. 5300 ft., by Mr. 
Salvin, F.R.S., and at Mazatenango, by Bernoulli. 
The Kew plant was raised from seed sent by the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture of the United States of America in 
1891, and it flowered in the present year.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, claw and base of standard; 3, petal of wings; 4, petal of 
keel; 5, stamens and pistil:—AJ/ enlarged. 
Juty Isr, 1893. 
