14 xlvii. § PAPILI0NACEJ3 (baker). [Crotalana. 



shortly grey-downy, the lanceolate ultimately reflexed teeth rather 

 exceeding" the tube. Corolla red, not conspicuously veined, glabrous, 

 9—10 lines deep, the standard f in. broad, the keel \ in. deep, moderately 

 incurved, fringed with a dense mass of grey cottony pubescence. Ovary 

 glabrous, linear-oblong, shortly-stalked, 15-20-ovulate. Pod not seen. 



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

 Dr. Welwitschl 



10. C. verrucosa, Linn.; DC. Prod. 2, 125. Stems 2-3 ft. high, erect, 

 copiously divaricately branched, thinly adpressed grey-silky upwards. 

 Stipules large, foliaceous, semi-lunate. Leaves nearly sessile, obovate, 

 2-5 in. long, by generally more than half as broad, glabrous above, 

 thinly adpressed silky beneath when young. Flowers in lax 6-20- 

 flowered terminal and leaf-opposed racemes on peduncles which about 

 equal them. Bracts small, setaceous, silky. Calyx campanulate, 

 thinly silky, \ in. deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the 

 way down. Standard twice as long as the calyx, greenish-white, 

 streaked with pale-blue within ; wings obovate, yellowish-white at 

 the base, the rest deep blue ; keel whitish-yellow towards the point. 

 Pod 1— 1J in. long, 4-5 lines thick, narrowed, at the base, silky when 

 young, glabrous when mature. — Bot. Mag. t. 3034 j C. ccerulea, J acq. 

 Ic. PI. Rar. t. 144. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Dr. Welwitsch! Banks of the Gaboon, Mylne! 

 Mann ! Griffon du Bellay ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, fide Baillon. 



A native both of Tropical Asia and America, and the Mauritius. 



11. C. Vogelii, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, 561. Stems 2-3 

 ft. high, erect, with numerous erecto-patent branches, covered like the 

 rest of the plant with soft spreading yellowish hairs. Leaves mode- 

 rately close and numerous, erecto-patent, short- stalked, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, \-\ in. broad, mucronate, both sides downy. 

 Flowers 6—12 in copious lax terminal and lateral racemes. Pedicels 

 \-\ in., slender, silky. Calyx 2 lines deep, silky, teeth reaching two- 

 thirds of the way down, three upper ones shorter and lanceolate, two 

 lower ones longer and linear. Bracts linear, minute. Corolla twice as 

 long as the calyx ; standard obovate, yellow, veined with purple ; 

 wings narrow, scarcely veined. Pod f in. long, linear- oblong, on a 

 short stalk, deciduously silky, 8— 12-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, country, Stirling on the Quorra, Vogell Nupe, in dry 

 stony soil, Barter! 



12. C. Leprieurii, Guill. et Perrott. Fl. Seneg. 168. Stem 1J-2 ft. 

 high, erect, simple, terete, shortly hairy. Leaves short-stalked, simple, 

 linear-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, hairy on both sides. Flowers in lax 

 racemes. Calyx about a line long, silky, teeth lanceolate, nearly equal. 

 Standard ovate-oblong, subacute, yellow, striated ; wings one-half 

 smaller, oblong, obtuse ; keel rather longer, yellow. Pod J in. long, 

 sessile, about 26-seeded. — Walp. Rep. 1, 590. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. Not seen. 



