Tas. 8505. 
CROTALARIA AGATIFLORA. 
East Tropical Africa. 
LEGUMINOSAE. Tribe GENISTEAE. 
Crotatanta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 58. 
Crotalaria agatiflora, Schweinf. ex Engl. in Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 
1891, vol. ii. p. 244, et in Hoehnel, zum Rudolph See, Append. p. 18; affinis 
CO. laburnifoliae, Linn., sed racemis multo robustioribus et longioribus, 
floribus duplo majoribus distinctissima. 
Frutex circa 1 m. altus; rami glabri vel ad apices puberuli, virides. Folia 
alterna, exstipulata, 3-foliolata, glabra vel subtus puberula ; petioli 3-10 
em. longi; petioluli 2-3 mm. longi; foliola 2°5-7 cm. longa, 1°6-4 cm. lata, 
ovata, acuta, basi late cuneata vel cuneato-rotundata. Racem* terminales 
90-35 em. longi. Bracteae caducissimae, 1°5-2°5 cm. longae, 0°5-1°6 cm. 
latae, lanceolatae vel ovato-lanceolatae, acuminatae, concavae, dorso 
puberulae vel glabrae. Pedicelli superne obconico-incrassati ; parte inferiore 
gracili 1 em. longo viridi prope basin minute bibracteolato; parte incrassato 
sordide brunneo-purpureo leviter glauco. Calyx 3-lobus, glaber, viridis, 
leviter glancus; lobi laterales 13-14 mm. longi, 7-8 mm. lati, lanceolati, 
acuti; lobus anticus 17 mm. longus, basi 4-5 mm. latus, In apicem tenuis- 
simum attenuatus. Corolla maxima, glabra, pallide viridi-lutea, carina 
apice sordide fusco-purpurea ; vexillum 4 cm. longum, 3 cm. latum, ovatum, 
subacutum, basi in unguem 8 mm. longum abrupte contractum; alae 
lamina 2-2-5 em. longa, 0:9-1 em. lata, basi in unguem 9 mm. longum 
abrapte contracta; carina longe acuminata, 4-4°5 em. longa, 1:8 cm. lata, 
Stamina basi monadelphia, parte libera 2°5-3°5cm. longa. Stylus 5°5 em. 
longus, ad apicem staminum vaginae abrupte incurvatus. Legumen 
stipitatum, turgido-cylindricum, 6 cm. longum, 1°8 cm. crassum ; stipes 
1:3-1°5 em. longus.—N. E. Brown. 
The Crotalaria here figured, one of the finest and one 
of the largest-flowered of the African species of this genus, 
is a native of Uganda and British East Africa, and 
throughout this area appears to be rather widely spread 
and fairly common. It forms in a wild state a large, hand- 
some shrub with numerous long racemes of large greenish- 
yellow but nevertheless brightly coloured flowers. It is 
closely allied to the more familiarly known C. laburnifolia, 
Linn., but its larger leaflets are more acute, the peduncle of 
its raceme is much longer and stouter and the flowers are 
very much larger. ‘The plant has been grown for the first 
Juny, 1913. 
