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Penanq; Curtis! DiSTRiB. Cosmopolitan in the tropics, originally 

 American. 



There is one specimen of this in Mr. Curtis' own Herbariam. No other collector 

 has sent it from Malaya. 



11. Crotalaria Saltiana Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 648. An erect shrub 

 2-4 feet high with robust smooth or slightly sulcate thinly silky 

 branches. Leaves compound, 3-foliolate, petioles 2-3 in long, leaflets 

 membranous, glabrous above very sparingly silky below, terminal 1-5- 

 2-5 in. long, larger than lateral, all obtuse cuneate at base ; stipules 

 minute, deciduous. Racemes terminal and occasionally also lateral, 

 usually 1-1-25 feet lonj?, laxly 20-50-fld. ; bracts minute. Calyx '25 in. 

 long, thinly silky ; teeth lanceolate us long as campanulate tube. Corolla 

 •6 in. long, exserted, yellow with purple stripes or pure yellow, glabrous. 

 Fad subsessile deflexed, subrecurved puberulous when young, ultimately 

 glabrous, cyliudric, 1*5 in. long, 20-30-seeded. C. striata DC. Prodr. II, 

 131; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I. 346; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 84 

 (excluding the synonyms C. Brownei Bertero and G. latifolia Roxb.) 



Malay Pkninsula ; Perak, Wray ! ScortecUni ! Penang, King ! 

 Malacca, Maingay ! Singapore, Kunstler ! Pahang, Ridley. 



Nearly related to, and at times mistaken for G. Brownei Bertero ex DC. in 

 Prodr. II, 130 (C. lanceolata Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 54 [nomen prius] neo Meyer; 

 C. latifolia Roxb. ex Wall. MSS. in Hort. Calcutta) a native ofthe West Indies, but 

 now occasionally met with as a spontaneous species in India. Prom C. Saltiana^ 

 G. Brownei differs in having more numerous lateral racemes, with flowers always 

 close-set and racemes never exceeding 6 in., and in having much larger leaflets 

 acute at apex as well as base and more densely silky underneath. The leaves of 

 G. Saltiana are like those of the next species ; of G. Brownei like those of G. hracteata 

 and of Priotropis cytisoides for both of which species it has, at times, been mistaken. 



12. Crotalaria labuenipolia Linn. Sp. PI. 715. An erect shrub 

 2-4 feet high with long slender rounded glabrous branches. Leaves 

 compound, 3-foliolate, petioles 2-3 in. long, leaflets membranous, gla- 

 brous on both surfaces, terminal 1-2 in. long, hardly larger than lateral, 

 all subacute or obtuse, cuneate at the base ; stipules 0. Racemes ter- 

 minal and lateral 6-12 in. long, few- and very lax-fld. ; bracts minute 

 deciduous, pedicels '5 in. long. Calyx 'S-'^ in. long, glabrous turbinate, 

 teeth lanceolate as long as tube. Corolla 1 in. long, much exserted, 

 pure yellow, glabrous, keel much incurved. Pod pendulous from a fili- 

 form gynophore "75-1 in. long, glabrous, cylindric l"o-2 in. long, 20-30- 

 seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 130 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 275 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5424, mostly; W. & A. Prodr. I, 193; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 345; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 84. C. pendida Bert, in DC. Prodr, II, 

 130. G. pedunculosa Desv. Journ. Bot. Ill, 76; DC. Prodr. II, 132. 

 Glavulium pedunculosum Desv. Ann. Sc. Nat. IX, 407. Nellia-tandale- 

 cotti Rheede, Hort. Malabar. IX, t. 27. 



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