Crotalaria] xliv. leguminos^e. 197 



yellow. Habit of Polygala. Queta Oriental ; fr. May 1856. Coll. 

 Carp. 464. 



These specimens from the carpological collection are rather doubtful. 



9. C. cylindrostachys Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Mr. ii. 

 p. 15. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellow. In wooded meadows between Erne and 

 Ivantala ; fl. and fr. March and April 1860. No. 1941. 



10. C. calycina Schrank PI. Ear. Monac. fasc. ii. n. 12 (1817) ; 

 Baker, l.c.^ p. 15. 



PuxCxO Andongo. — An annual herb, 1 to IJ ft. high, simple or 

 branched ; stem slender, erect, hirsute ; leaves simple, linear-lanceo- 

 late, hirsute, subcanaliculate, obtusely keeled with a thick midrib, 

 pellucid-punctate throughout, glaucescent beneath ; flowers solitary in 

 the axils of the uppermost leaves ; calyx deeply bilabiate, concealing 

 the corolla, strigose -pilose outside with long dense hairs ; standard and 

 wings straw-yellow ; keel whitish-green, fimbriate on the margin. 

 Stamens 10, monadelphous ; the 5 alternate ones fertile, shorter than 

 the rest, with erect basifixed anthers having cells a little diverging at 

 the base ; the 5 sterile anthers versatile ; style naked ; pod shorter than 

 the enveloping somewhat accrescent calyx, obovoid-trigonous, very 

 blunt, a little inflated, canaliculate on the vexillary suture ; seeds 

 numerous, reniform. Eare, in bushy i pasture within the fortress of 

 Pungo Andongo ; fl. and fr. middle of Jan. and May 1857. No. 1937. 



11. C. anthyllopsis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 15. 

 Pungo Andongo. — In stony pastures, Serra de Pedras de Guinga, 



at an elevation of 4000 ft. ; fl. without fr. March 1857. No. 194:3. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb ; stem patently branched ; flowers 

 whitish-yellow, marked with purple-brown veins. In sandy pastures 

 flooded in the rainy season, Morro de Monino, apparently rare ; fl. 

 April 1860. No. 1942. 



12. C. pisicarpa Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 16. 

 HuiLLA. — An annual much-branched prostrate herb ; stems several, 



1 to 2 ft. long ; leaflets 3, broadly obovate or almost orbicular ; flowers 

 yellow ; pods globose, as big as a pea ; seeds usually 3, reniform. In 

 damp meadows at the banks of the river of Lopollo, on ant-hills and in 

 company with species of Indlgofera ; also in a roadway near Ferrao da 

 Sola ; fl. and fr. March and April 1860. No. 1926. 



13. C. polyclados Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 17. 

 HuiLLA. — An annual herb ; central stem erect or abortive, the 



lateral stems prostrate ; leaves trifoliolate ; standard bright blue, 

 orange-coloured at the base, very broad, scarcely emarginate ; wings 

 green-bluish at the apex, orange-coloured on one margin ; keel pale- 

 yellow-green ; pods turgid ; seeds numerous, reniform, rather com- 

 pressed. Abundant, in elevated stony pastures in the territory of 

 Humpata, in places flooded in the rainy season ; at an elevation of 

 5500 ft. ; fl. and fr. 21 March 1860. No. 1951. 



14. C. spinosa Hochst. in Herb. Sehimp. Abyss, i. n. 150, iii. n. 

 1540, and in Flora xxiv. I. Intell. p. 32 (1841) ; Benth. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. ii. p. 576 (1843); Baker, /.c, p. 17. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect spinous annual herb, but somewhat 

 shrubby ; with the habit of an Onoms ; branches twisted, ascending ; 



