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CROTALARIA JUNCEA. CHANNEL’D-STALK’D 
-CROTALARIA. | 
(HPS Hbbnidsnbniciibics 
Se Clafs and Order. 
 Drapertpura DecanpRIA. 
Gearriz Charafer,. 
Legumen turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum. Filant. connata 
cum fiffura dorfali, 
Specific Charagter and § Synonyms. 
CROTALARIA juncea foliis fimplicibus lanceolatis petiolato- 
Ce feffilibus, caule ftriato. Spec. Pl. 1004. 
oe a it. Kew. 9- >. 38. 
CROTALARIA foliis folitariis lanceolatis lanuginofis, petiolis 
Mes _ feffilibus, caule ramofo ftriato, flore magno 
_ aureo. Trew. Ebret. tab. 47. p. 15. Katou 
Tandala Cotti. Hort. Malabar. U. 9. DP. 47> 
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This annual is a native of the Eaft-Indies; the feeds were 
brought to Mr. Mixer, at Chelfea-Garden, from the coaft of 
Malabar before 1768, Ait. Kew. It rifes with an angular, 
rufhy, ftiff ftem, from three to four. feet in height, dividing 
into branches. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, alternate, 
covered with foft filvery hairs, which are much diminifhed in ~ i 
number by culture, as we found on comparing a native fpecimen 
from the coaft of Coromandel, in the poffeflion of Sir JoserpH 
Banks, Bart. The flowers are terminal, and difpofed in ra- ~ 
cemes, each flower being furnifhed with a fhort peduncle, they — 
are large, of a deep yellow, and refemble thofe of the Spanifh 
Broom. : re 
Thefe are fucceeded by large turgid pods, containing reni- — 
* form or kidney-fhaped fonds, : yeas requires the treatment 
of the tan-ftove. : | a 
