24 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Coelidiwm. 
densely villous, more commonly quite smooth; margins when young, fringed with 
long soft hairs. Flowers few and small, hidden among the upper leaves ; the calyx 
teeth round topped. Easily known by its pubescence and calyx; in its foliage it 
comes near A. Williamsoni, but the leaves are shorter and broader. 
VII. COELIDIUM, Vogel. 
Calyx nearly equally 5-fid. Veaxillum obovate, shortly stipitate, 
reflexed, ale oblong; carina oblong, straight, obtuse, bluntly spurred 
at each side. Stamens monadelphous, the tube often very short. Ovary 
uniovulate. Legume ovate, one-seeded. Benth. in Ld. Jrn. Bot. 2. p. 453. 
Small, much-branched 8. African shrubs or suffrutices, with simple, entire, sessile 
exstipulate leaves, with the margin more or less involute, appressedly pubescent on 
the upper side, either glabrous or silky on the lower, often twisted or transversely 
rugose. Flowers geminate, in the axils of the upper leaves sub-sessile, except in 
C. spinosum. Name from xotAos, hollow; alluding to the frequently concave leaves. 
TABLE OF THE SPECIES. 
Leaves broadly ovate or cordate ovate: 
Leaves very concave, with strongly inflexed margins; 
flowers su dO et mee aa eet eee Sak! 
Leaves flattish, silky on both sides ; fl. sub-sessile ... (2) Thunbergii. 
Leaves flattish, silky; peduncles elongate, 2-flowered (3) spinosum. 
Leaves lanceolate, ovato-lanceolate or subulate, straight or twisted : 
Floral-leaves not broader than the ordinary leaves ... (7) Vogelii. 
Floral-leaves broad, ovate or ovato-lanceolate : 
Lobes of the calyx acute or acuminate : 
Leaves straight and erect, glabrous externally (4) eiliare. 
Leaves twisted, densely and softly villous on 
Doth sided a ad Sa eae .. (5) Toseum. 
Leaves twisted, glabrous externally ... ... (6) Bowiei. 
Lobes of the calyx very short and obtuse ... ... (8) muraltioides. 
1. C. bullatum (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 453); “leaves broadly 
ovate, bullato-concave, nearly closed, with the margin strongly involute, ap- 
pressedly silky on the inside, bearded at the apex, thinly hairy on the 
outside; calyx silky-pilose, its segments longer than the tube; stamens 
shortly monadelphous.” Benth. i. c. 
Has. 8. Africa, Burchell, Cat. No. 7115. (Unknown to me.) 
_ “‘Branchlets softly hairy. Leaves 3~4 lines long. Bracts subulate. Calyx 3 
lines long, with narrow-lanceolate segments. Corolla not seen. Filaments persi 
tent after flowering, connate to a fourth of their length. es. obliquely ovate, 
shortly acuminate, compressed, very villous, scarcely longer the calyx.” Benth. 
2. C. Thunbergii (Harv.); leaves (small) ovate or cordato-ovate, acute, 
Alattish, with the margin slightly inflexed, one-nerved, appressedly silky 
on both surfaces ; flowers sub-sessile; calyx silky, its segments shorter 
than the tube, deltoid; stamens shortly monadelphous. Crotalaria 
parnfolia, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 571. 
eae dink prope (Herb. Thunb.) 
Ane ranchi rub, 1-2 feet high; branches virgate, ribbed and furrowed, 
thinly and appressedly silky. Leaves scattered, 24-3 lines long, 1-2 lines broad, 
varying from broad to narrow, but always on an. ovate type. Flowers on pedicels 
shorter than the calyx, one or two together in the axils of the leaves, scattered — 
along the branches. Calyx 1-14 lines long, ‘thinly silky. Corolla not seen. Filaments 
persistent after flowering, connate at base for ¢ their length, the stamen-tube adnate 
= the ee eee pa rg Rrlogg as long as the calyx, thinly silky. 
is remarkable plant does not seem. ve ‘ound b berg, 
who has omitted to record the locality. a ah aa 
