Crotalaria. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 45 
No. 440, which differs from his 341 merely in what may be referred to luxuriant 
growth; namely, a longer raceme, somewhat longer petioles (but this varies), and 
more evident stipules. In Gueinzius’ specimens, referred by Sonder to C. globifera, 
the flowers are smaller and the foliage more glabrous; these answer well to E. 
Meyer's var. a, glabra. I have not seen any Dregean specimens. 
17. C. Nubica (Benth.! 1. c. p. 581); herbaceous, spreading, much 
branched, piloso-pubescent ; stipules minute, lanceolate ; leaflets oblong- * 
linear, obtuse, glabrous above, or nearly so; pubescent beneath; ra- 
cemes opposite the leaves, elongate, slender, laxly many flowered ; 
flowers minute; calyx-lobes subulate, longer than the tube ; ovules 4-6, 
legume sessile, small, obovoid, pubescent. C’. spheerocarpa, var. angustifolia, 
Hochst.! Hb. Un. It. Pl. Arab, 282. 
Has. Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb D.) 
Annual? 1-2 feet high; branches divaricating or angularly bent, or sub-dichoto- 
mous. Leaves sub-distant. Petioles uncial; leaflets 3, about as long, 2-3 lines 
wide, tapering at base, either quite glabrous above, or minutely pubescent. Racemes 
5-6 inches long or more, the flowers 2-4 lines apart, on slender pedicels longer than 
the bracts. Flowers 2 lines long, with a very sharp, slender carina. Pod 2-3 lines 
long. The flowers are much smaller than in any other South African species. 
18. C. platysepala (Harv. Thes. t. 29); shrubby; branches thinly 
downy ; stipules setaceous; leaflets about equalling the petiole, elliptic- 
oblong, mucronulate, glabrous above, appressedly pubescent beneath ; 
racemes terminal, elongate, many flowered; calyx pubescent, deeply 
lobed, its segments obovate-oblong, cuspidate-mucronate, the lowest narrower 
than the rest; vexillum pubescent, ale very broad, nearly as long as the 
much acuminate carina ; ovary pubescent, stipetate, 6-8 ovuled ; legume ? 
Has. Sandy soil between the Rivers Tamulahan and Zougha, beyond the Lake — 
Ngami, Jos. M‘Cabe/ (Herb. Hook.) — | 
‘A shrub.” The flowering ends of branches only seen by me. Leaves 3-foliolate, 
petiole and leaflets $-1 inch long, the middle leaflet longest, 2-3 lines broad. Ra- 
cemes 5-6 inches long, ing, 20-30 flowered; flowers bright yellow, } inch 
long. Calyx very different from of any other S. African species. 
19. C. elongata (Thunb. Fl, Cap. 571) ; suffruticose, erect, densely vel- 
vetty-tomentose in all parts ; branches terete, virgate; stipules wanting ; 
leaflets ovate or cuneate-oblong, densely lanato-sericeous on both sides, 
thickish, obtuse; racemes terminal, very long, densely many-flowered ; 
calyx villous, its lobes deltoid, short; ovules three ; legume sub-sessile, 
oblong, acute, densely woolly, one-seeded. 
Has. Karroo, near Bockeveld, Thunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) : 
Apparently two feet high, erect, robust, every part clothed with soft, silky and 
silvery dense pubescence. Branches long and simple. Petioles $-1 inch long. 
Leaflets inch long, 5 lines wide at top, cuneate at base. Racemes 8-12 inches long, _ 
the flowers patent, imbricating, small, pale yellow. Petals glabrous. Carina rather 
blunt. Legumes 3 lines long, not very turgid. 
20. C, macrocarpa (E. Mey. Comm. p. 24) ; “Shrubby; stipules minute ; 
leaflets obovate, eas above, minutely downy beneath, as are also 
the branchlets; racemes laxly several-flowered; calyx-segments lanceo- — 
late, thrice as long as the tube; legume (large) oblong, faintly” d 
transversely, minutely downy, on a stipes somewhat longer than the caly 
Benth. l. c. p. 592. ee 
