240 CALYCIFLOR^. 



and Crotalaria quinquefolia, also with yellow flowers, is 

 naturalized in the neighbourhood of the Botanic Garden at 

 Bath, St Thomas in the East. 



3. Crotalaria fruticosa. Shruhhy Rattle-wort. 



StijDules attached only to the upper leaves lanceo- 

 lato-falciform decurrent, leaves lineari-lanceolate vil- 

 lous with appressed hairs, stem sufFruticose, racemes 

 opposite to a leaf and subterminal about 3-flowered. 



De Cand. Prod. II. 135?— i¥«7/. Diet. No. 4. 



HAB. Port- Royal, St Andrew's, and St John's Hills. 



FL. Autumn. 



SufFruticose, seldom more than a foot in height, subdivided, 

 subterete, villous with appressed hairs. Nerves of the leaves 

 scarcely perceptible. Stipules only attached to the leaves at the 

 ends of the branches, lanceolate, acute, decurrent along the stem. 

 Raceme more or less elongating as the pods ripen : peduncle 

 subterete, villous: pedicels short with a linear bractea at the 

 base ; flowers of an obscure greenish-yellow, with a pair of linear 

 bracteoles close to and appressed to the calyx. Calyx persis- 

 tent, hairy ; segments lanceolate. Standard roundish, subcor- 

 date, bicallose at the base, greenish-yellow, striated, with par- 

 allel purple lines ; wings small ; keel open beneath near the 

 base, somewhat spirally twisted towards the apex. Filaments 

 free for half their length. Ovary glabrous, geniculated at tlie 

 style, which is barbato-puberulous towards the obtuse stigma. 

 Legume rather more than an inch in length, black, hoary, many- 

 seeded : seeds shining reniform. 



This is not a very attractive species, and, from its narrow 

 leaves resembling those of the grass among which it grows, it 

 is apt to be overlooked. The flowers also are obscure. 



4. * Crotalaria lotifolia. Lotus-leaved Rattle-wort. 



Leaves 3-foliate, leaflets oblongo-cuneiform emar- 

 ginate glabrous, peduncles axillary solitary 1-flowered, 

 legumes sessile. 



C. trifolia fruticosa, foliis glabris, flore e luteo viridi minore, 

 Shane, 11. 33. t. 176. f. 1, 2.— C. lotifolia, flore parvo varie- 

 gato, Dill. Elth. 121. t. 102. f. 121 — C. lotifolia, Vahl. Eclog. 

 II. 54. 



HAB. A wood between the Town Savannah and Two-Mile 

 Wood. 



FL. ? 



Sloane appears to be the only Botanist who has found this 

 plant in Jamaica. He describes it as shrubby, 3 or 4 feet high, 



