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Crotalaria.] XL. LEGUMlNOaJ.;. I79 



Series III. Digitatse.— Xeap<?j all or mostly comjoowad with 3 rare^u 5 digitate leaf- 

 ten. Herbs or shrubs. •/ n j 



Ovules 2. Pod small as broad as long. Herb with small flowers 11. C. trifoliastrum. 

 <J\nles many. Pod oblong, much longer than the calyx. 

 Uvaiy and pod sessile or nearly so. 

 Calyx deeply lobtd. Standard almost acute, slighily esceed- 



ing the calyx. Pod hirsute with spreading hairs . . .12. C. incana. 

 talyx divided to the middle. Standard broad and obtuse 

 ninch lonjicr than the calyx. Pod pubescent, toinentose 



OvJ?r''^,^'^"'"'?' U . C. dissitijlora. 



Uvaiy a„d pod on a long stipes. Piowerg large. 



J^eaflets 3. Standard acute ., , . . U, C. laburnifolia. 



i^eaflets usually 5. Standai'd very obtuse 15. 0. qninqnefo/ia. 



j^ERiEs I. SiMPLiciFOLi,«.— Leaves simple, continuous with the short 

 petiole, the Australian species all herbaceous or uudershrubs, 



1. C. verrucosa, Linn, i DC. Prod. ii. 125. A stout erect minutely 

 puDeseent annual of \\ to 3 ft.; branches divaricate with prominent an-les 

 ^ most wniijed. Leaves usually ovate-rhomboidal 2 to 4 in. long, but passing 

 ^omelimes into ovate-acuminate or almost lanceolate and 5 or G in. long, al- 



.\s very obtuse. Stipules semilunar or ftdcate, horizontally sprciiding. 



wers pale-blue, in loose terminal or leaf-oppgsed racemes. Calyx about 4 

 ^nes long, the lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, all free, the lowest rather 

 vill ^'^'^°^^*^^^' Standard broad, above i in. diameter. Ovary sessile, very 



'ous all over or on the inner side, with above 20 ovules. Pod oblong, vil- 

 »w, ij to 2 in. lone:.— Wi-ht. Ic. t. 200 : F. Mnell. Fra^m. iii. 54. 



D- " 'C3 



^- .Va ^'^*'**"*^^*' ^'^^'^toria river and stony hills and grassy banlcs on theWickham river, 



'Bo^wr'^^B**^^' ^"'leavour river, ^. Brown; Cape Upstart, WGillitrmj; Bowen river, 



Thes"' • ':'^''''""P'"n. Thozet; Kdgecombe Bay, Dallachy. 

 3nd Am''^''^'^^ '^ coumion in East India, and is now spread over many parts of tropical Africa 



liei?" ?* *^*'^^P^**> ^- Miiell. Herb. A low much-branched softly villous 

 p.;!"^ stems dilluse or ascending and not exceeding 1 ft. Leaves from 

 1 ^'"te-oblong to narrow oblong-ctinenfe, or broadlv linear, very obtuse, | to 

 race ^'^''^^^ ^" ^"'•^^ ®^<^*^s- Flowers small, few, in short loose termmal 



sidp"^?'] ^'■'"'ts ^111^^ bracteoles minute, ovate-acule or lanceolate, villous out- 

 slio.'tl °"^ inside. Cahx about 3 lines lona, deeply cleft, the 3 lower lobes 

 ^'ty united, the 2 upper ones broader, all lanceohite, very glabrous and 

 crisn 1 ^^ ^'*cons inside, villous outside, the margins often recurved and 

 ven 11 '^^" flo^^^ering. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. 0\ary sessile, 

 Spp,i ?' "''t^' 2 ovules. Pod ovoid, villous, scarcely exceeding the calyx. 

 ''^ u«tmlly solitaiT, black and shining. 



and B-.iJ''***"*"*- ^^'an<ls of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown; Victoria, Fitzmaunce 



,^oaine9 rivers, F. Mueller. . 



ffseJhl,?"* '^ '■^^^'■'■''^ ""V F. Mueller, Fragm. iii. 55, to C. ramosissima.f^^^K which it 

 '* nearer /" n""^ '*''P^'^ts, but which, in its large flowers and broad reflexcd visx'ous brad s, 

 '^Ma\ i '»^^i'ata, Ileyne. Both these species are allied to C. pantcuMa^ ^x,d C. 

 S aro r "ndoubtedly connected with them, although rather more distinct from all, than 



' "e from each other. • 



■ ^' juncea, Linn.; DC. Frod. ii. 125. An erect annual, altaiuing 



