594 ENUMERATION OF LEGUMINOS.E. 
XVI. Priotropis, W, et Arn, 
This genus consists of but one species, so very much like 
some of the fruticose Crotalarie in every thing but the pod, 
that it cannot be considered as naturally removed from that 
genus, in which, however, it cannot be retained without 
doing violence to any satisfactory generic character which 
has yet been given to it. 
1. P. cytisoides (W. et Arn.! Prodr. 1, p. 180 in adnot.)— 
Crotalaria cytisoides, Roxb.! Pl. Ind. 3, p. 276, DC. Prodr. 
2, p. 1831. Wall. ! Cat. n. 5422.— Habitus folia et flores fere 
Crotalarie anagyroidis. Legumen stipiti 2-3-lineari insidens, 
oblongum, plano-compressum, 1-13 poll. longum, circa 5 lin. 
latum apice oblique acutum, extus adpresse puberulum, intus 
nudum, valvulis membranaceo-chartaceis tranverse reticu- 
lato-venosis. Semina Crotalaria. 
East India. Nipal, Wallich! Sillet, De Silva! Taong 
Dong, in Burm, Wallich ! Tenasserim, Helfer ! 
XVII. Lorononts, DC, (Sect. Oxonidis.)—Leobordea, Delile. 
—Leptis, Lotononis, Krebsia et Polylobium, Eckl. et Zeyh.— 
Crotalarie sp., Aulacinthus, Telina, Lipozygis et Capnitis, 
: E. Mey. 
The above genera appear to me to have been distinguished 
upon very insufficient grounds. Those established by Ecklon 
and Zeyher, indeed, are to me wholly unintelligible, so many 
of the species referred in the Enumeratio to one genus 
having the generic character of some other one. E. Meyers 
are much more consistent and natural, but the large vexillum 
of Telina, and the small lower lobe of the calyx in Capnitis, 
are but characters of degree, which are not, in either case, 
very definite, and even the rostrate keel of those species 
which he retains in Crotalaria against his own conviction, 
(see Comment. p. 155), passes gradually through several 
intermediate forms into the ordinary blunt keel of Lotononis. 
The introflexed earinal suture of the pod in Aulacinthus 
is exceedingly slight, and only to be seen in the ripe state; 
