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Crotalaria calycina SCHRANK DC. Prodr. H. p. 120 : BEXTH. Fl. 

 Hongk. p. 74 ; BAKER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Tud. IT. p. 72 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. lud. Fl. Sin. I. p. 151 ; HENRY List PL Forinos. p. 30 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 102. 



HAB. 



DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia. 



Crotalaria elliptica ROXB.; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 

 130 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 72. Scandent, pubescent, 

 branched, flexuose. Leaves trifoliolate, pubescent, petiolate, petioles 3 cm. 

 long, longer than leaflets, leaflets subsessile, terminal one longer than the 

 lateral ones, oblong or obovate, retused or minutely mucrouate, 3 cm. long, 

 2 cm. broad. Spikes axillary on the upper branchlets, 7-8 cm. long, pedun- 

 culate. -Flowers G mm. long, pedicellate, pedicels 3 mm. long. Calyx base 

 minutely 2-bracteate, (bracts subulate), campauulate 3 mm. long, 5-lobate, 

 lobes as long as the tube, triangular, acute, 1| mm. long, 1 mm. broad, pubes- 

 cent. Standard orbicular, clawed, (blade 5 mm. long, carinate outside at the 

 middle, claws ll mm. long) villose inside, strongly reflexed above the claw, 

 2-callose ; wings obovate, G mm. long ; keel incurved 7 mm. long, rostrate. 

 Ovary sfcipitate, (stalk 1] mm. long), 2-ovulate, villose, style abruptly in- 

 flexed at the middle, more or less longitudinally barbate inside on the upper 

 portion. Stamens connate. Legumeii pedicellate, nodding, pressiugly villose, 

 obovate or globose 6 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, obliquely inflated at the apex, 

 (style rostrate), 2-seeded. 



HAB. Ako : Kotansho. 



Near G. Trlfdiastrum WILLD. ; but differs in having much larger obovate 

 folioles and larger flowers. 



Crotalaria furruginea GRAH. ; BAKER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. lud. H. 

 p. G8 ; HANCE in Jourii. Bot. (1882) p. 4 ; FORBES et HEMSL. lud. Fl. Sin. 

 I. p. 151 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 30 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL 

 Formos. p. 103. 



HAB. Pachina, Shintiku, Taito, Snibi. 



