Crotalaria 



LEGUMINOS.S; 



1. CROTALARIA L. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-5-foliolate. 

 Flowers yellow, but blue in C. verrucosa, in racemes terminal or 

 opposite the leaves, axillary in C. laii i'li. Standard roundish ; 

 keel beaked. Staminal sheath split above. Rattle-wort. 



Species about 450, widely dispersed through the warmer 

 regions of the whole world. 



Fi". 1. Crotalaria striata DC. 



A, Raceme and leaves x H. 



B, Flower, nat. size. 



C, Wing x 2. 



D, Flower with corolla removed x -. 



E, Seed x 5. 



(Altered from Reichenbach.) 



1 . Leaves simple. 



Stipules (when present) not decurrent. 

 Erect herbs or shrubs. 

 Pods hairy. 



Stipules foliaceous, lunate. Flowers blue ... 1. C. 

 Stipules minute or wanting. 



[Leaves linear or oblong-linear, 4-10 cm. 1. C.jnncea.] 



[Leaves lanceolate-linear, 10-30 cm. 1 C. tctragona.} 



[Leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, (i-8 cm. 1. 



Flowers paniculate C.fnlcu. 



Pods glabrous. 



Stipules very small or wanting. 1'rioU a\\l- 



shaped -2. C. ret/i.^n. 



[Stipules ^-sagittate. Bracts ovate, foliaceous ( '. s,ricea.] 

 ^Diffuse herb, not more than 1 ft. high, with 



small leaves and pods C. nor 



