92 LEGUMINOSAE. (Crotalaria. 
meats ovoid and oblong. Style suddenly bent in above the ovary. Pod 
inflat erbs or shrubs. Leaves simple and sessile or with 3 or 5 
digtteta ie leaflets at the end of the petiole. Pedicels solitary to each bract, 
with 2 bracteoles close under or even upon the calyx. Flowers yellow, 
or ew bluish or Peas’ 
A large genus, chiefly tropical, with no species coe antl to Polynesia. The follow- 
ing, although well na snididten are all of recent introduct 
Leaves simple: 
Raceme with short bracts; leaves evenly tapering at both ends 1. C. Assamica. 
eme with yet ovate bracts ; leayes oblanceolate 2. C. sericea. 
Leaves ey 3 leafl : , : 3. C. longirostrata. 
7 1. C. Assamica, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II, 481..— An erect 
undershrub, 4—8 ft. high, with silky bra ets. Leaves lanceolate, 
tapering at both ends, glabrous above, sericeous underneath, 4—6' < I’, 
on short petioles. Racemes many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, 2‘'. Calyx- 
s 4—5", the lower 3 joined 2/s of their length. Flowers °/4‘ long, 
pe with a line of silky hairs on Pe back of the standard. Pod 
glabrate. — Mann, F 
n, Fl. Haw. Islds. p. 53, and Enum. no. 95 
Oahu! Pauoa, at the head of the valley. A native of Assam. 
72. C, sericea, Retz. — Wight d& Arn. Prod. d. Or. 
ight Fil. In ie sa 
Erect, 3—4 ft. high, glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate, blunt, anal te 
tapering to a short petiole, glabrous above, silky-pubescent underneath, 
pellucid, dotted, 2—5‘  1—2!/2‘. Stipules sessile, semisagittate. Bracts 
large, ovate. Calyx bilabiate, '/2‘ long, half the length of the bright yellow 
corolla, the superior lobes meter the inferior ovate-lanceolate. Pod oblong, 
shortly atipitate, igs — Mann, Enum. no. 96 
A native of In 
7 3..C. Be Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 285. — Suffruticose, 
2—3 ft. high, the branches minutely pubescent. ete ia on long petioles, 
3-foliate, the leaflets obovate or oblong, mucronulate, tapering to a cuneate 
base, the terminal one 1’ or more long, the Lathes ones smaller. Stipules 
and bracts very small, 1”, subulate, caducous. Pedicels 2—3”' long, 
recurved in fruit. Flowers large, yellow. Keel with a long straight beak, 
7“ long, exceeding the other petals. Calyx pubescent, the two upper 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, the others linear-lanceolate. Pod oblong, 6—9‘ long, 
pong: on a short stipe. Ovules about 10. Seeds 4—6. — Man aay 
—o i o7, 
eed in Nuuanu valley and on the Waikiki a near Honolulu, cones 
es the igiediters) Society’s garden. A native of Mexi 
Trise Il. TRIFOLIEAE. 
Stems herbaceous, not twining. Leaves 3-foliolate, without stipellae, the 
numerous veins of the leaflets extending to the edge and often projecting 
