Crotalaria.] xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). 17 



about a line long. Leaflets three, sessile, obovate, 1-1 \ lines long 1 by 

 about half as broad, coriaceous, upper surface grey, glabrous, lower 

 thinly silky. Flowers solitary or in pairs from the axils of the leaves 

 on cernuous pedicels, about equalling the calyx, which is thinly silky, 

 A in. deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching more than halfway down. 

 Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod oblong, £-§ in. long, 

 more than half as broad, short-stalked, glabrous, 10- to 15-seeded. — 

 Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 573; C. pumila. Hochst. et Steud. in 

 Schimp. PL Arab. No. 788. 



Nile Land. Coast of Nubia, Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, teste Schweinfurth. 

 Also Arabian and Egyptian. 



20. C. podocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 183. Stems herbaceous, erect, 

 1-2 feet high, with copious erecto-patent branches thinly clothed with 

 long yellowish silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate-falcate, J-J in. long, 

 persistent. Petioles 1-1 J in. long, silky, erecto-patent. Leaves with 

 three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central one 1-1J in. long, J-§ in. 

 broad, mucronate, both sides thinly silky. Flowers only 2-3 together 

 in long-stalked clusters in the axils of the leaves. Bracts minute, se- 

 taceous. Calyx silky, | in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reaching 

 three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the 

 calyx ; standard 4 lines broad, not striated, glabrous ; keel with a dis- 

 tinct beak £ in. long. Pod with a stalk half as long as the calyx, 

 f-1 in. long, \ in. thick, glabrous, 12-18 seeded. — Guill. et Perr. Fl., 

 Seneg. 166; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 58'9 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 i. 158; C. pilifera and arvensis, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 54 ; 

 C. physocarpa, Fenzl. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, to the borders of the Sahara, Perrottet I Bidjem ! 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper I Quartin- Dillon! Nubia, KoUchy ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters I 

 Abyssinian name, Seppere-quasot, according to Schweinfurth. 



21. C. polyciados, Welw. mss. A glabrous annual, very copiously 

 branched at the crown of the root, with diffuse slender rigid dichoto- 

 mously-forked stems half a foot long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pe- 

 tioles 2-4 lines. Leaflets 3, linear, dark green, glabrous, rather fleshy, 

 acute, 6-18 lines long, a line or less broad. Flowers always solitary, 

 usually terminal, on slender peduncles 6-18 lines long with a linear 

 bract a little below the flower. Calyx 3J-4 lines long, the lanceolate- 

 acuminate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla slightly 

 exceeding the calyx, the standard orbicular, pale blue, 4 lines broad, 

 the keel pale yellow. Pod oblong, distinctly stalked, glabrous, 6-8 

 lines long, 4 lines broad, 10-12-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, at 5500 ft. Dr. Welwitsch ! 



22. C- spinosa, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 150. Stem annual 

 only, but almost fruticose in the lower part, 6-18 in. long, the upper part 

 covered with short grey pubescence, with copious spreading brandies and 

 usually with abundant long sharp spines downwards. Stipules minute, 



