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are half and sometimes less than half the size of those of 
the Nubian species, the calyx and its teeth shorter, the 
standard much more ample, very hairy and not pubescent 
only outside, nor entirely yellow, but marked with longitu- 
dinal streaks of red; it is about the same length as the wings 
and not longer; the wings are narrow and oblong, not wide 
and spathulate, the plicatures all placed much nearer the 
apex; the keel is longer than the wings and standard, 
instead of being about the length of the wings and shorter 
than the standard; the fruit is oblong-oval and when ripe 
the base of the style which forms the apex is placed nearly 
in a straight line with the upper suture; whereas in the 
Nubian plant the ripe fruit is nearly round, and the apex 
forms an angle with the suture. Notwithstanding the great 
similitude of these plants, presenting as they do so many 
differences, it is more prudent to keep them apart. Our 
comparison was made with the plant of Kotschy (Iter Nub. 
n. 24.) 
52. Crotalaria microphylla, Vahl, Symb. 1. p. 52. Benth. 
i Enum, Legum. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bet. 2. p. 573. 
: C. pumila, Hochst. et Steud. Exsicc. Arab. Schimp. 1837. 
n. 778. : 
Has. In rupibus maritimis ins. S. Antonii (Forbes, die 
` 2 Aprilis, 1822, sp. unicum fructiferum.) 
Thad at first distinguished this plant specifically. under 
the name of C. trigonelloides ; but after a careful examination 
it seems scarcely possible to separate it from C. microphylla, 
Vahl; though the branches which are stouter appear less 
Procumbent and the leaves are more approximated. The 
upper leaflets in both, as in C. humilis, Eckl., frequently 
become linear and elongated and sometimes simple. The 
Pubescence and the stipules are identical; the segments of the 
calyx in our plant are. however somewhat narrower and more 
sharply pointed, Unfortunately, we have no perfect flowers; 
but the keel is apparently ofthe same form: the fruit, ripe 
in our specimen, though otherwise similar to the unripe fruit 
of that of Schimper, is a little larger. 
