46 LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) (Crotalaria. 
Has. Marshy places between the Omcomas and the Omblas, Caffraria, Drege. 
(Unknown to me.) 
E. Meyer compares this species with C. purpurea, stating that it differs in the 
calyx and legumes. Bentham places it in a different sub-section. 
21. C? purpurea (Vent. Malm. t. 66); shrubby; the twigs appres- 
. sedly pubescent ; stipules subulate or obsolete ; leaflets longer than the 
~ petioles, elliptical or obovate, glabrous, or minutely canescent beneath ; 
racemes terminal, many-flowered, elongating; calyx silky, its teeth 
shorter than the tube, the two uppermost truncate; carina with a short, 
obtuse beak ; legume glabrous, stipitate, oblong-inflated, transversely 
veined, Benth. l.¢. p. 590. DO. Prod. 2. p. 13 3. Eck. & Zey.! En, No. 1257. 
Bot. Reg. t. 128. Bot. Mag. 1913. €. coluteoides, Lam. C. elegans, Hort. 
Hap. In moist, sub-alpine places, from Caledon to Uitenhage, Z. 4 Z./ George, 
Drege. Gnadendahl, Dr. Prior/ Zwarteberg, Pappe! &e. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
A shrub, 3-4 feet high, erect and much branched. Leaflets 7-1 inch long, }-4 
inch wide, slightly glaucous, often drying blueish or livid, as if they contained 
indigo. Flowers bright purple, half an inch long. Calyx sub-truncate or intruse at 
base, ¢ as long as corolla. Flower-buds abruptly ovoid. A highly ornamental plant, 
cultivated in English green-houses. ; 
22. C. aspalathoides (Lam. Dict. 2. p. 202); “ shrubby, rigidly much 
branched ; stipules obsolete ; leaflets small, cuneate-oblong, glabrous on 
both sides, or silky canescent, like the twigs, on the lower surface; ra- 
cemes lax, several-flowered ; calyx 5-toothed; carina... . ; legume 
shortly stipitate, oblong-inflated, glabrous, veinless.” Benth. l. c. Pp. 591. 
DC. Prod. 2. p. 134. 
Has. Onder Bokkeveld, on the Grasberg River, Drege. (Unknown to me,) 
A small, but woody species, with quite a distinct habit. Leaflets on very short 
petioles, 2 lines long, 1 line wide. Racemes few-flowered. Flowers (not seen). Calyx 
of she fruit downy, with a ten-nerved tube and acuminate teeth. Legume half an 
inch long. 
23. C. Capensis (Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 64) ; shrubby, with terete, ap- 
| pressedly silky branches ; stipules when present petiolulate, obovate and 
H leaf-ike, obsolete or wanting on many petioles ; leaflets broadly obovate, 
) obtuse or mucronulate, glabrous or very minutely pubescent on one or 
both surfaces; racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, lax, many- 
flowered ; flowers (large) in longish pedicels ; calyx pubescent, its seg- 
H ments longer than the tube ; legume stipitate, appressedly pubescent. 
| Benth. 1. c. p. 590. Thunb. ! Fl. cap. p. 572. C. arborescens, Lam. DC. Pd. 
ives * 2. p. 130. Cr. incanescens, Linn, f. 
f A duns fonds Has. Eastern districts, extending to Port Natal ; common. (Herb. Th., Sd., D.) 
Oc} 4 _A tall, much branched, stout bush, thinly canescent or sub-glabrous, 4-5 feet 
vFeTG high. Petioles very variable in length, $~14 inch long, some of them furnished with 
a pair of leafy stipules, others on the same branch exstipulate ; leaflets $1 inch long, ae 
ose obtuse or emarginaté or acute or mucronate. Flowers bright yellow, an inch long,* * 
eo the al transversely rugulose and pitted. Flower-buds lanceolate, Carina glabrous. 
24. C. Natalitia (Meisn. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 67) ; shrubby, with angu- 
lar, appressedly pubescent branches ; stipules narrow-lanceolate, petio- 
lulate, leafy; leaflets cuneate-oblong, obtuse or mucronulate, minutely 
pubescent beneath ; racemes terminal, few-flowered ; calyx nearly gla- 
brous, its teeth scarcely as long as the wide tube ; carina woolly on the 
_ Upper edge ; legume shortly stipitate, glabrous, Benth. l.c. Pp. 599. 
