40 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Crotalaria. 
Larger ; hispid with coarser, rusty hairs : 
Suffruticose, slender, very hispid; peduncles 
4-6 inches long, 2-5 flowered ... 21. «.. 
-Shrubby, much branched ; pedunc. not much 
exceeding the leaves, 1-3 flowered ... ... (7) lotoides, 
Erect or sub-erect herbs, scarcely suffruticose : 
Leafl. oblong-linear or lanceolate ; racemes 2-6 flowered (12) distans. 
Leafi. cuneate, obtuse ; pedunc. 1 rarely 2-flowered ... (11) Grantiana. 
8. Racemose. Leaves digitately 3-5 foliolate. Racemes mostly terminal, densely 
or laxly many or several flowered. (Sp. 13~24.) 
Stipules small, obsolete or none : : 
Leaflets narrow-lanceolate, acute : “Ss 
Branches puberulent ; stipules ag : caly#-teth 
short 3 
(8) obscura, 
rig’ > -#e, bet pM & 2.7: soy sey (13) IOROOOLUM, 
Branches and petioles densely hispid ; stipules sub- 
ulate; calyx-lobeslong ‘%.. ... ... ... ... (14) Burkeana. 
Leaflets obovate, oblong or linear-oblong } 
Calyx-lobes as long as the tube or longer, lanceolate : 
Leafl. elliptic-oblong ; legume subsessile, long, 
seeded 
many- botnets ME ete 
Leafi. obovate ; legume large, oblong, on a 
ae as re ene ee 
Leafl. cuneate-oblong ; legume stipitate, small : 
sub-globose or ovoid ... ... ... ... ... (16) globifera. 
_ Leafl. o -linear ; fl. minute ; legume sessi 
smi VOIR = ess 5904 sort cwye eee. (A) een, 
Calyx-lobes longer than the tube, oblong, truncate, 
and idate vie “982i, evyy peed eioue. Gh) eg 2 
cemes very long .... ... 2s. 
Sub-glabrous or thinly silky : _ 
Leaflets 3-1 inch long ; flowers purple... (21) purpurea, 
Leaflets minute, 2 lines long, 1 line wide ; 
racemes lax .. ...°...  .. «-".-. (22) aspalathoides. 
Stipules leaf-like, petiolulate (occasionally wanting to some leaves) 
Branches terete ; stipules and leaflets obovate; carina it 
glabrous Hees re io eee annie ery 3(2 3) ee 
Branches angular ; stipules lanceolate ; carina woolly on 
upper OO ee ae eae wos 
- 
bee ey ee (24) Natalitia, 
| 1, SIMPLICIFOLLE (Sp. 1-2). , 
_ 1. C. virgultalis (Burch. in DC. Prod. 2. p. 128); nearly glabrous, o 
minutely silky ; branches virgate, rush-like, striate; stipules none; 
leaves narrow-oblong, or lanceolate-linear, thickish ; racemes terminal, 
8-10 flowered, lax, bracts and bracteoles minute, subulate ; calyx ap- 
pressedly silky, longer than the pedicel ; legume sessile, elliptic-oblong, 
minutely pubescent. Benth. Ld. Journ. 2. p. 561. C. spartioides, E. Mey.! 
Comm. non DC. 
Has. S. Africa, Burchell (No. 1752). On the Gariep, near Verleptram, Drege / 
— (68) ! wits Wale PSP Saimin aaamaer = 
13-2 feet hig! , the younger parts very minutely and appressedly downy ; 
older glabrescent. Leaves few and distant, Bie or Ag aah bea 1 ae 
broad, twice or thrice as long as their petiole, Flowers yellow, 4 inch long; the 
yexillum silky ; carina very acute and slender, nearly twice as | ale. Pods 
2 inch long, 3 lines in diameter. : y twice as long as the 
2. C. spartioides (DC. Prod. 2. p. 128) ; nearly glabrous, or thinly 
and minutely silky ; branches virgate, rush-like, striate ; stipules none ; 
