~ Crotalaria. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 41 
leaves linear-subulate or setaceous; racemes elongate, distantly pluri- 
flowered, bracts and bracteoles very minute, setaceous ; calyces shorter 
than the pedicels ; legume shortly oblong, sessile, glabrous or minutely 
puberulous. Benth./ 1. cp. 561. 
. Has. 8. Africa, Burchell, No. 2336. Rhinoster River, Burke! and Zeyher ! 
Pappe, No. 69. Zoolu country, Miss Owen! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
2-3 feet high, broom-like, much branched; the branchlets slender and wiry. 
Leaves few and distant, scarcely thicker than hog’s bristle, 1-14 inch long. Flowers 
larger than in C. virgultalis, on longer stalks; the calyx-lobes more taper-pointed, 
and both calyx and vexillum less hairy. Pods smaller ; in my specimens quite gla- 
brous. 
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2. FOLIOLATE (Sp. 3-24). 
3. C. sparsiflora (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 26); “dwarf, diffuse ; stipules 
small or obsolete; leaflets obovate, silky-canescent on both sides, as is 
also the stem ; pedicels opposite the leaves, one-flowered; carina with 
a straight beak ; ovary many ovuled ; legume sessile, oblong, silky, not 
longer than the calyx.” Benth. l. ¢. p. 573: 
- Has. On the Gariep, near Verleptram, Dregets; (Unknown to me.) 
‘Herbaceous, dichotomously much branched, y-flowered. Flowers small. 
Legume 2-3 lines long.” Benth. 
p. 574. C. diffusa, EL. Mey. Linn. 7. p. 151, non Link. § C. effusa, HL. Mey, 
(ex parte). Lotononis diffusa, E. & Z.! No. 1274 and L. perplexa, B. & Z.! 
1275 (non Benth.) Ononis excisa, Thunb.! Fl. cap.p. 586. 
Has. In clayey soil. Common near Capetown, E.§Z.! &c. Paarl andGroenekloof | (, 
perennial ; many stemmed from the crown. Petioles 3-1 inch long, leaflets }-} 
inch : sometimes the petioles are proportionably shorter. Pod 4 inch long.  Pe- 
duneles 2~3 inches, more commonly one than two flowered. The solitary specimen 
marked “Lot. perplexa” in Herb. Ecklon, belongs to this plant, and not to L. per- 
plexa of E. Mey.! and Benth., which Ecklon probably confounded with it. 
5. C. effusa (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 25, ex parte); rather dwarf, diffuse, 
much branched from the base, branchlets terete, glabrescent ; stipules 
minute ; leaflets shorter than the petiole, obovate or oblong, minutely 
appressedly-pubescent. beneath ; eduncles terminal or (at length) op- — 
posite the leaves, elongate, distantly 3-6 flowered ; bracts oblong, blunt; — 
carina with a straightish beak ; ovules numerous, legume sub-sessile, = a 
oblong, much inflated, appressedly pubescent. Benth. bite PSH 
Ononis racemosa, Thunb.! Fl. cap. p. 587- 
Has. Sands near Krakkeelskraal, Drege! (Herb. Th., Hk.,D.) 
Herbaceous, more robust and less branching than G. humilis, with a different in- 
tong. Leaflets broadly obovate or narrow oblong, the uppermost narrowest. 2 
bavi specimen has aaher larger flowers and narrower leaves than Dregea fie 
