like the stipules, but less frequently reflected. Calyx bila- 
biate, hairy, segments pointed, green, upper lip two-parted, 
spreading, lower lip three-parted, segments parallel and 
closely applied to the keel. Corolla yellow, vexillum 
rounded, spreading, striated with deeper lines on the back, 
claw furrowed and hairy on its lower side ; ale involute, 
- shorter than the vexillum ; carina pointed, equal in length 
to the ale, split at its base, its lower edge forming nearly 
a right angle. Stamens monadelphous ; filaments ver 
slender, five nearly as long as the style, and crowned wit 
small, round, abortive anthers, five shorter, having oblong 
anthers of a deep yellow colour. Germen pubescent, flat- 
tened. Style turgid at the base, afterwards bent nearly to | 
a right angle, filiform, hairy, persisting. Stigma small and 
inted. Legumen covered with small, appressed hairs, 
inflated, nearly cylindrical, slightly furrowed above. Seeds 
numerous (about fourteen) kidney-shaped, and arranged 
in two rows, at least when young. Granam MSS. 
In De Canpotie’s Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 
Regn. Veget. one hundred and _ thirty-seven species of 
Crorararia are described, and among those of the division, 
“ fol. palmatim compositis 3—17-foliolatis ; foliis 3-foliolatis 
racemis oppositifoliis ; stipulis setaceis aut nullis” there are 
several, it must be confessed, that, in character, approach 
very nearly to the present species: but yet, that differ in 
some particular ; so that I dare not venture to say that any 
is the same, without fuller characters or reference to the 
figures. Indeed, such extensive Genera can scarcely be 
expected to be well illustrated without plates. — 
t is, perhaps, the Crot. lupulina of De Cannoute, but 
that should have ovate legumes. Ours, like it, is a native 
of Mexico, the seeds having been brought from that coun- 
try by Mr. Marr, and by him communicated to the Botanic 
Garden of Edinburgh. The plants have been kept in the 
stove, and have flowered for two successive summers. 
_Wild specimens were kindly given to me, by Cuar.es 
Macxenziz, Esq. our late Consul at Mexico ; and I have 
an individual, from the Rev. Lanspown Guitpine, of St. 
Vincent, that I can only distinguish from our plant, by its 
somewhat larger leaves. I may observe, that my Mexican 
specimens, seem to be rather biennial, than fruticose. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens with the Pistil, ‘3. Legum 
