§•6 SEEDS AX!» PLA^•^S IMPOKTEl), 



51832 to 51842— Continued. 



51833. Cbotalaria geantiana Harv. 



A small slender herbaceous plant with an erect, branching leafy stem, 

 1 foot in height. The trifoliolate leaves consist of cuneate leaflets one- 

 half to three-fourths of an inch long and not one-sixth of an inch wide. 

 The small, yellow, striate flowers are borne on filiform peduncles. 

 Native to Natal. (Adapted from Harvey and Sonder, Flora Capensis, 

 vol. 2, p. 43.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 34740. 



51834. Ckotalaria incana L. 



A tropical Anierican plant about 1 meter high, erect, branched and 

 somewhat shrubby, and softly gray pubescent. The leaves have three 

 elliptical leaflet.s. The yellow flowers, with a standard over 10 milli- 

 meters wide, are crowded in 12 to 20 flowered elongated racemes 5 

 to 20 centimeters long. This plant occurs in waste places throughout 

 the Tropics and is in flower all the year. (Adapted from Rock, Legumi- 

 not(s Plants of Haicaii, p. 137.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47127. 



51835. Crotalaeia laburnifolia L. 



A low shrub with slender, elongated, terete branches, membranous, 

 glabrous leaflets 1 to 2 inches long, anci elongated, very lax, terminal 

 and lateral racemes of bright-yellow flowers 1 inch long. The keel is 

 very broad, with a long incurved beak. Native to the western Indian 

 Peninsula, Ceylon, and Malakka. (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of Brit- 

 ish India, vol. 2, p. SJi.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 49279. 



51836. Crotalaeia polysperma Kotschy. 



A densely rufo-villose herbaceous plant with trifoliolate silky leaves 

 and six to eight small, lax. long-i>eduncled. lateral racemes of violer- 

 blue flowers. The standard is widely obovate, silky pubescent without, 

 and 14 to 16 millimeters long. The wings are oblong with an obtuse 

 tip ; the apex of the kef'l is attenuated into an ei'ect. somewhat obtuse 

 beak. Native to the Nile Land. German East Africa, British East 

 Africa, Sudan, and Eritrea. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, vol. 2, p. -'i2, and Journal of the Linnedn Society, vol. 42, p. 821.) 



51837. Crotalaeia eetusa L. 



A handsome East Indian annual with large yellow flowers in 12- 

 flowered terminal racemes. The large round standard is streaked at 

 the base, and the wings are short slnd villous at the back. The fluted 

 upright stem, leafy from the base, is li feet high. The oblong, wedge- 

 shaped, entire leaves are clothed beneath with short appressed hairs 

 and are roughish with small elevated points. (Adapted from Curtis's 

 Botanical Magazine, pi. 2561.) 



For previous iJitroduction, see S. P. I. No. 36969. 



51838. Crotalaeia saltiana Andrews. 



A shrub with long, ui)ward-curving, more or less silky branches, de- 

 ciduous stipules, and deiLse racemes of yellow flowers. The standard 

 is elliptic-ovate, the wings oblong, and the rounded keel 9 to 11 millimeters 

 long. The trifoliolate leaves with small obovate leaflets are silky 

 pubescent below, glabrous or nearly so above. Native to the Sudan and 

 southern Abyssinia. (Adapted from Journal of the Liiinean Society, 

 vol. 42, p. 309.) 



51839. Ceotalaeia spectabilis Roth. 



A robust undershrub 1 to 1.5 meters high, with oblong or broadly 

 .spatulate-oblong leaves which are moderately firm in texture, glabrous 

 above, finely silky beneath, and 7.5 to 35 centimeters long. The folia- 

 ceous stipules are persistent. The yellowish purple flowers, 22 millimeters 

 long, are in 20 to 4C» flowered racemes 3 to 5 decimeters long. The 

 plant is native to India, ascending to an altitude of 3,000 feet in Kumaon. 

 It is cultivated as a garden flower in the Punjab, India, where it is 

 known as Sauni, but it is apparently never cultivated as an agricultural 

 product, though fiber is sometimes prepared from it. (Adapte<l from 

 Rock, Leguminous Plants of Hawaii, p. 127.) 



