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CROTALARIA RETUSA. - WEDGE-LEAVED 
CROTALARIA. 
Class and Order, ee 
DiapEtpuia Decanpri. - 
Generic Character. | 
Legumen turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum. Filamenta 
- Connata, cum fissura dorsali. ee a pee 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CroraLarra retusa ; foliis simplicibus oblongis cuneifor- 
mibus retusis, racemo. terminali... Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 
Ree se Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 272. Bot. Reg. 
| Croratarra retusa ; foliis he fp ar oblongis cuneiformi- 
bus retusis. Sp. Pl. 1004. Vahl. Symb. 1. p. 52. ex- 
cluso forsan synonymo Forskohlei. gee 
_ *ROTALARIA asiatica floribus luteis, folio singulari cordi- 
lo formi. Herm. Lugdb. p. 200. cum icone. eo a 
— POTALARIA major. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 278. t.96.. 
} “ANDALE-Corti. Hort. Malab.9. p.45.t.25. 
i Shag - Stem a foot and half high, upright with a few 
| “tt branches, fluted, leafy from the bottom. Leaves 
} dite entire, oblong, wedge-shaped, point obtuse, and ter- 
Minated with a short mucro, clothed underneath with short 
| p}.ssed hairs, and roughish from small elevated points. 
| sin very short, fleshy. Stipules minute, recurved, 
| . Inflorescence, a terminal raceme, of about twelve — 
7 lowers Pedicels short, when the flower is ex nded, hori- — 
Diss » afterwards recurved. Bractes two small ones at the 
OSes two very minute about the middle, patent. — 
| gi? 2-cleft, the two upper segments largest and divari- — 
| Yello € lower ones approximate. Corolla large, 
| “toned ‘ vexillum round, subemarginate, streaked at the 
| ~~ With a short claw, and two hooked appendices: Sore 
