Crotalaria.] XLVil. § PAPILI0NACE2E (baker). 13 



6. C. holoptera, Welw. mss. A glabrous rigid annual branched at 

 the crown of the root with suberect 1-3 times dichotomously forked 

 stems with two rigidly coriaceous wings each reaching a breadth of 

 2-3 lines in the centre of the main stem. Leaves very few, some- 

 times none, oblong or oblanceolate, 18-21 lines long, 6-8 lines broad, 

 bluntish or subacute, very conspicuously mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, 

 pale green. Flowers 3-4 in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes. 

 Bracts rigid, linear, 1 very minute. Pedicels 3-4 lines long, spreading. 

 Calyx \ in. long, glabrous, cuneate at the base, the lanceolate acumi- 

 nate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla yellow, 5-6 lines long. Pod 

 distinctly stalked, oblong, inflated, 7-10 lines long, 5-6 lines broad, 

 glabrous, very blunt, 10-1 2- seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., sparingly in sandy 

 thickets, Dr. Welwitsch! ♦ 



7. C. uniflora, Baker. Stem herbaceous, slender, procumbent, 

 terete, glabrous, branched copiously and diffusely. Stipules minute, 

 setaceous. Leaves simple, sessile, oblanceolate, |-| in. long, \ in. 

 broad, mucronate, base subcuneate, glabrous. Flowers solitary on 

 leaf- opposed slender glabrous pedicels more than an inch long, with a 

 minute setaceous bract three-quarters of the way up. Calyx glabrous, 

 J in. deep, the teeth lanceolate, reaching down nearly to the base. 

 Corolla not seen. Pod linear-oblong, 6—7 lines long, 3 lines thick, 

 glabrous, slightly upcurved, distinctly stalked. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, JPerrottet! 



8. C. retusa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 125. Sufrruticose, subglabrous, 

 sparingly branched. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves simple, ob- 

 lanceolate, sessile, reaching 18-24 lines long, 6-12 lines broad, retuse, 

 faintly mucronate, both sides subglabrous. Flowers in lax terminal 

 racemes 4-6 in. lon'g. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 2-3 lines. 

 Calyx |-J in., the teeth exceeding the tube, the upper ones lanceolate- 

 deltoid, lower narrower. Corolla bright yellow, considerably exceed- 

 ing the calyx. Pod distinctly-stalked, linear-oblong, glabrescent, 

 1J in. long, \ in. thick, 15-20-seeded.— Bot. Mag. t. 2561; Bot. Reg. 

 t. 253. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon country, Griffon du Bellay and Duparquel, teste 

 Baillon. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Dr. Peters, Dr. Kirk ! 



A common E. Indian and Malayan species very likely only introduced with us. 



9. C. Welwitschii, Baker. A low shrub with slender trailing 

 woody subglabrous branches ascending outwards. Stipules minute, 

 setaceous, moderately persistent. Petioles reaching an inch. Leaves 

 simple, oblong, narrowed gradually to an acute point, glabrous, coria- 

 ceous, the upper ones 2-3J in. long, 9-18 lines broad. Flowers 4-20 

 in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes reaching 6-7 in. Long, 2 in. 

 broad. Bracts lanceolate, 1J-2 lines, acute, coriaceous, deciduous. 

 Pedicels erecto-patent, 3-6 lines. Calyx | in. long, inconspicuously 



