Crotalarla,'] XL. leguminos.e. 1S3 



does not a2;ree perfectly with the common state of C. Cunninghamii^ but in the description 

 the tenth stauieu is said to be free, which I have never foiiud iu C\ Citmiinghamiu 



Series III. Digitat.e. — Leaves all or mostly digitately compound, with 

 3 leaflets in the Australian species, very rarely reduced to 1 in a few leaves of 

 one specieSj 5 or 7 in some East Indian species. Herbs or shrubs. 



11. C. trift>liastrum, JFilld. ; TF. and Jr?i. Prod, 191. A perennial 

 with rather slender, erect ascending or decumbent branchinj^ stems, usually 

 1 to 2 ft. high, more or less pubescent. Leaflets 3, usually oblong-cuneate, 

 l)ut varying from obovate and under ^ in. long, to linear-cuneate and about 

 1 in. long, very obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, lioary or pubescent iinder- 

 neatli, the petiole slender. Flowers usually small, but variable in size, in 

 terminal racemes of 1 to 3 in. Calyx pubescent, al)out 2 lines long, the lobes 

 narrow and much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones rather smaller than 

 the others. Standard broad, exceeding the calyx, but usmdiy shorter than 

 the straight beak of the keel. Ovary sessile, pubescent, with 2 ovules. Pod 

 about 2 lines broad and not longer, tapering into a short hooked point, pu- 

 bescent or nearly glabrous. — Wight, Ic. t. 421. 



N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bpwe ; Victoria river, F, Mueller; islands of the Gulf 

 of Carpentaria, i?. Brown, Henne ; Port Essingtoa, Armstrong. 



Queensland. Bay of Inlets and Shoalwater Bay, U. Brown; "Wide Bay, B id will ; 

 fort Curtis, if-ffi//u-/-fly; Roekhampton, Thozet, taUachy; Port Denison, Titzalan. 



F.Mueller, Fragm. iii. 56, unites this with C. viedicaginea, Lam., but the latter appears 

 to be always prostrate, with small hroad leaflets, unless when drawn np in luxuriant grass, 

 the racemes mueh shorter, the flowers smaller, the standard larger iu proportion to the 

 keel, etc. 



F. Mueller's hcrharinm contains also a single imperfect specimen from the Gulf of Car- 

 Pentaria, Landsborough, allied to C, (nfoHastrnm, but evidently shrubby, with woolly to- 

 Rientose branches and larger flowers, closely resembling C^NotomH W. and Arn. Prod. u. 

 i^2 (the same as C, rostrata, W. and Arn. 1. c. 191), but the uiaterials are insufficient for 

 «c«1auiing whether it be a diatiuct spcciea- 



12. C. incana, Lhin, ; DC Prod. ii. 132, An erect herb, usually annual, 

 attaining 2 or 3 ft., the branches tomentose, pubescent or rusty-villoiia. 

 leaflets 3, obovate or orbicuhu-, very obtuse, usiuilly i to 1 in. long, glu- 

 i^i'ous above, more or less ciliale on the edge and soin(;tinies hairy underneath, 

 ^^ a long common petiole. Flowers small, yellow, in short terminal or leal- 

 ^PPOsed racemes, Calyk 3 to 4 lines long or rarely rather more, the lobes 

 fnely acuminate, several times longer than the snicMl tube. Standard as 

 'Qf'g as or rather longer than the calvx, broad, but almost acunimate; 

 ^n?s narrow; keel nearly as lon<? as tlie standard^ anthers smaller than 

 in most species and rather less disproportioned. Ovary sessile, villons, wi h 

 ^^merous densely crowded ovides. Pod sessile, 1 to U ^",,^^"-4.,^'-^''''^ 



J«^oh inflated and hirsute with spreadii ' " " "" " 



^^g- 275 F. Muell. Fragm. ili. 53 ; G . 



7^; feehweigg. iu Schranck, SvU. PI. Raubu. u. 11, - , 



^^i; C. Schimperi, A. Kich. Fi. Abyss, i. 151. 



Queensland. Keppei Bay, R. Brown; Moreton island and Gilbert river, /^. ^^^^f^^J 

 f;;i»a,npton and BoIvEu r\J^v^Bo.u.a.'Dailach>f. 'l^he species is widely uisp^^^^^^ 

 f ; n'p.cal and subtropical rei;ions of the New and the Old World. Ihc figure m Dot Reg. 

 mo 'I' "'"^^^^ ^"«^«^ 'or It, represents rather C, striata, DC. Prod. n. 131, another com- 



tropical species, but aot as yet fouud in Australia. 



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