12 XLVIl. § PAPILIONACE.E (BAKER). \ Crotalaria. 



oblong, sessile, densely tawny-silky, 6-10-seeded. — C. thebaica, Guill. 

 et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 160, nan DC. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Roger I 



Very similar to the last in general habit, but not spinose. 



3. C. glauca, Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 127. An erect glabrous annual 

 1-3 feet high with slender erecto-patent terete branches. Stipules se- 

 taceous, 2-3 lines. Leaves linear, nearly sessile, 1-3 in. long, acute, 

 mucronate, subcoriaceous, the primordial ones lanceolate. Flowers in 

 copious 2— 8-flowered very lax peduncled terminal and lateral racemes. 

 Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 3—4 lines. Calyx 3 lines, glabrous, 

 the linear-lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla 

 half as long again as the calyx, the standard very much recurved. 

 Pod linear-oblong, pendulous, 6-12 lines long, 4-5 lines thick, gla- 

 brous, distinctly stalked, 8-12-seeded. — C. acutifolia, Steud. in Schimp. 

 PI. Abyss. No. 829; C. genistifolia, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 335. 



"Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Niger country, 

 Thonning ! Vogel ! &c. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Unyoro, in plantain-groves, and eaten by the 

 people of Madi as spinach, Speke and Grant! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, in many localities, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Dr. Kirk ! 



4. C. spartea, R. Br. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Stems slender, 

 herbaceous, glabrous, erect, terete, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous long 

 slender ascending branches. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. 

 Upper leaves sessile, linear, 1-3 in. long, 1-3 lines broad, acute, sub- 

 coriaceous, glabrous, the lowest lanceolate 5-6 lines broad. Flowers 

 in lax 6-12-flowered terminal racemes reaching 4-5 in. long. 

 Pedicels 2-3 lines long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Calyx glabrous, 

 | in., the lanceolate teeth equalling the tube. Corolla 4 lines, the 

 standard purple, 2 lines broad. Pod (not seen mature) linear-oblong, 

 glabrous, sessile, 8-9 lines long, 2 J lines broad, straight, 18-20- 

 seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch! 



5. C. stenoptera, Welw. mss. A glabrous annual copiously 

 branched from the crown of the root with suberect simple or once- 

 forked stems more than a foot high with a narrow wing to each of the 

 four angles. Stipules rigid, setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, 

 linear, 1—4 in. long, 1J— 6 lines broad, narrowed gradually to a mucro- 

 nate point, subcoriaceous, pale green. Flowers 3—5 in very lax long- 

 peduncled subsecund terminal racemes. Bracts linear, very minute. 

 Pedicels 3-4 lines, spreading. Calyx glabrous, 3-4 lines long, nar- 

 rowed at the base, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching more than 

 halfway down. Corolla J in. long, yellow veined with violet. Pod 

 oblong, inflated, glabrous, J in. long, 3-4 lines broad, shortly stalked, 

 12-15-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, in woody meadows, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



