ENUMERATION OF LEGUMINOS. 473 
As to the two last sections of Endlicher, Priotropis should 
perhaps be retained as a distinct genus, on account of the 
perfectly flat pod, though it be so exactly a Crotalaria in 
habit and every other character. Amphinomia, a name given 
by De Candolle to Thunberg’s Connarus decumbens is too 
little known to be referred with certainty to any genus. The 
original specimen was received by Thunberg from Burmann, 
in whose own herbarium De Candolle does not find it, and 
no modern botanist has ever seen it. E. Meyer, Comm. p. 
154, suspects it to be the Crotalaria oryptera, E. Mey. des- 
cribed below under Lofononis, and he may be right if Thun- 
berg has drawn his description of the petals from some 
totally different plant, or from his own imagination. But 
this point can only be cleared up by an inspection of Thun- 
berg's own herbarium, if the specimen exists there; if not, 
the genus should be entirely omitted as a blunder not now to 
be cleared up. 
Series 1. SIMPLICIFOLI®, Folia simplicia, sessilia, nec in 
petiolo articulata. 
$ 1. Arenarie. Suffrutices v. herbe rigide, prostrate v. 
divaricato-ramosissime, pauci-foliate. Pedunculi terminales 
v. demum oppositifolii, remoti-flori, deflorati sepe spines- 
centes. Legumen ovoideum v. globosum, sessile, sepius 
pubescens.—Species omnes hic enumerate. . 
1. C. ZEgyptiaca, (sp. n.) rigida, ramosissma, subspinescens, 
ramulis tomento brevi canescentibus v. glabris, foliis raris 
ovatis oblongisve undulatis calycibusque tomentoso-pubes- 
centibus, ovario 2-3-ovulato, legumine ovoideo calyce 2-3-plo 
longiore glabro v. juniore minute tomentello.—Rami breves, 
juncei, seepe fere aphylli. 
Lower Egypt.* Desert of Suez almost buried in the sand, 
Bové! n. 184; Desert of the Sinai, Bové! n. 521, S. 
Fischer ! 
2. C. Thebaica, (DC. Prodr. 2. p. 128) prostrata, spinescens, 
* Although not strictly within the Indo-African region, I have included 
this species in order to give a complete Enumeration of the Crotalarie of 
the old World. 
