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Order XLVI. LEGUMINOS. 
Leguminose, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 434. 
About 420 genera and 6500 species, generally dispersed, except in New Zealand and 
the very coldest regions, where they are very rare. | 
Suborder I. PAPILIONACEL. 
Tribe GENISTEA. 
There are forty-two genera of this tribe, consisting mainly of shrubs and herbaceous 
plants, inhabiting nearly all temperate and subtropical regions. 
1. CROTALARIA. 
Crotalaria, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 862 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 1. p. 479. 
A very large genus of herbaceous and shrubby plants, represented in nearly all 
tropical and subtropical regions. Upwards of 100 occur in Tropical Africa alone, and 
nearly eighty in British India. They are also very numerous in America ; and some of 
the species are amphigeous. The whole genus comprises at least 200 species. 
1. Crotalaria anagyroides, | .B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. p. 404. 
Sour Mexico, near Tantoyuca (Ervendberg, 22).—VENEZUELA. 
2. Crotalaria angulata, Miller, Dict. no. 9. 
Sourn Mexico, Campeche. 
3. Crotalaria bupleurifolia, Schl. in Linnea, v. p. 575, xii. p. 279; Hook. Ic. 
Pl. t. 372. 
C. parviflora, Roth, var. glabella, Mart. et Gal., et var. hirsutissima, Mart. et Gal. in Bull. Acad. 
Brux. x. p. 32. 
Norra Mexico, Cerro de Pinal (Seemann, 1534); Sour Mexico, Cuesta Grande de 
Chiconquiaco (Schiede & Deppe), Jalapa (Galeotti), Hacienda de la Laguna (Schiede & 
Deppe), woods of Zacuapan (Galeottt, 3977), forests of Juquila, Oaxaca ((aleotti, 
3177). Hb. Kew. 
4, Crotalaria cajanifolia, H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. p. 405. 
SourH Mexico, on the slopes of Volcan de Jorullo, 3480 feet (Humboldt & Bonpland) ; 
GvuaTEMALA, lower part of the Volcan de Fuego (Salvin & Godman, 205); Costa Rica 
(Endres, 238); Panama, near the city of Panama (Seemann, 228), Empire railway- 
station (S. Hayes, 284). Hb. Kew. 
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