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44 “LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Crotalaria. 
fruticose, erect; branches, petioles, and racemes densely hispid, with 
long, patent, rusty hairs; stipules linear-subulate; leaflets 3-5, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous above, pilose beneath ; racemes terminal, lax,, 
several flowered; bracteoles lanceolate; calyx deeply cut, its segments 
lanceolate, nearly as long as corolla; legume sub-sessile, oblong, very 
hairy. 
_Var. 8. sparsipila; much less hairy, with longer petioles, leaflets and racemes. 
- Has. Magaliesberg and Aapjes River, Burke and Zeyher! B. in the Zooloo 
country, Miss Owen! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
One to two feet high, suffruticose at base, with many herbaceous, slightly branched 
stems. Pubescence copious, rusty brown, and harsh. Petioles 1-1} inches long, 
leaflets as long, often 5 together, 1-2 lines wide, acute at each end. Racemes pe- 
dunculate, terminal, 10-15 flowered. Flowers yellow, } inch long. Legumes 14 
inches long. Var. 8. is a more luxuriant and less hairy form, and probably grew 
in richer, alluvial, soil. 
15. C. striata (DC. Prod. 2. p. 131); herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, 
divaricately branched ; branches angular and striate, thinly canescent ; 
stipules none; leaflets on long petioles, elliptic oblong, or obovate, ob- 
tuse, mucronulate, glabrous or very minutely strigoso-puberulent be- 
beneath; racemes terminal, densely many-flowered, elongate; calyx 
appressedly pubescent, its teeth acuminate, about equalling the tube; 
carina falcate, twice as long as the ale; legume sub-sessile, elongate, 
hook-pointed, many-seeded, minutely downy. Benth, 1. c.p. 586. Bot. 
Mag. t. 3200. 
Has. Port Natal, Mr. Hewitson! Mr. Sanderson! (Herb. Hk., D.) 
A large species, but with moderate flowers. Petioles 2~3 inches long, leaflets 2-24 
inches long, 1-13 inch broad, petiolulate, somewhat acute at base, tipped with a mi- 
nute bristle-like mucro, mostly obtuse, rarely ovato-lanceolate and sub-acute. The 
very young buds and branchlets are somewhat woolly ; the mature very thinly pu- 
bescent and whitish. Racemes 6-8 inches long, 40-50 flowered; flowers yellow, 
streaked with purple, pendulous: the vexillum and alz much shorter than the carina. 
Legume 1-14 inch long, 2-2} lines in diameter, the upper suture depressed. This 
Species occurs throughout the tropics of both hemispheres. 
16. C. steeds (E. Mey. Comm. p. 2.4) ; suffrutescent, many-stemmed, 
more or less puberulent or canescent, with angular, virgate branches; 
stipules bristle-shaped or wanting; leaflets cuneate-oblong, glabrous 
above, appressedly pubescent beneath; racemes terminal, densely many 
flowered ; ovules four; legume stipitate, obliquely obovoid-subglobose, ap- 
 sbacciee’4 pubescent. Benth.l.c.p. 581. C. macrostachya, Sond.! Linn. 
23. Dp. 26, . ; 
Var. 8. brachycarpa; legume very oblique, depressed-globose. Benth./ I. ¢. 
Var. y. glabra; petioles much shorter than the lamina; leaflets nearly glabrous 
below ; flowers smaller. 
Has. Between the Omsamcaba and Omsamwubo, Drege. Port Natal, Krauss! 
jar ae ye B. Magaliesberg, Burke / y. Port Natal, Gueinzius ! (Herb. 
Root with a thick crown throwing up several sub-erect or ascending, curved 
stems, a foot or eighteen inches in height ; with several lateral virgate branches. 
Pubescence close-pressed, thin and minute. Petioles 1-$ inch long, scarcely equalling 
the lamina, in var, y. much shorter ; leaflet cuneate at base, obtuse or mucronate, 
the midrib very prominent on the lower surface: Raceme short, with 12-20 yellow 
flowers : carina taper-pointed ; vexillum thinly si y- Pods scarcely as large as peas ; 
in var. 8, smaller. I cannot distinguish Sonder’s 0. macrostachya from Krauss’s 
