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cultivated variety, are, on the contrary, highly esteemed and 
much used. 
Surrt. Tas. XV. Lablab vulgaris. Fig: l, Vexillum. 
Fig. 2, 2, The wings. Fig. 3, Side view of the keel. Fig. 
4, Petals of the keel spread open. Fig. 5, Stamens and 
pistil :—slightly magnified. Fig. 6, Seed :—natural size. 
XVI. 
CROTALARIA DIGITATA. 
DianeLrnra Decanprta. Nat. Ord. Lecumrnosm. Juss. 
Gex. Cuar. Cal, 5-lobus bilabiatus, lab. sup. bi-, infer. 3- 
fido. Cor. vexillum cordatum magnum, carina falcato- 
acuminata. Filamenta omnia connexa, vagina sæpius 
superne fissa. Stylus lateraliter barbato-pubescens. 
Legumen turgidum, valvis ventricosis inflatum, sæpius 
polyspermum, pedicellatum.—Herbæ aut frutices. Folia 
simplicia aut palmatim composita, 3-aut rarissime 5-folio- 
lata. Flores sepius flavi. Bracteolæ minime secus pedi- 
cellum aut ad basin calycis. DC. 
Crotalaria digitata; foliolis 5 obovatis mucronatis utrinque 
dense albo-tomentosis, stipulis subulatis falcatis reflexis, 
racemis terminalibus. (Super. Tas. XVI.) 
Annual, herbaceous, erect, one or two feet high. Stems 
. irregularly angled, flexuose, covered with a dense, white wool. 
Leaves alternate from the flexions of the stem, even more 
thickly tomentose than it, and on both sides. Petioles rounded, 
longer than the leaflets, which are 5 in number, digitate, 
rarely 7, unequal, shortly petiolulated, obovate, a little re- 
tuse, mucronated, entire. Stipules subulate, reflexed 
bending round the stem, deciduous. Racemes terminal, od 
ing many large pedicellated yellow flowers, each furnish 
with three unequal bracteas at the base of the pedicel, the 
middle larger one leaf-like, the lateral subulate ones the sti- 
pules. Pedicel, calyx, corolla and legume all glabrous. 
Calyx 5-cleft, its segments acute, Vexillum reflexed, large 
a little longer than the wings and heel. Stamens 10, the 
ments all united into a tube which is cleft above, and , 
