Crotalaria.] xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). 19 



Pod sessile, very silky, f in. long-, half as broad, 10-12-seeded. — C. 



laevigata /3. villosior, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 577. 

 XMEozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes ! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk 1 

 The Mascarene C. laevigata, Lam., differs by its obovate leaflets, longer petiole 



(4 in. long), and glabrous stem, leaves, and pods. Our plant may be a variety of 



C. spinosa. 



26. C. variegata, Welw. mss. An undershrub with very diffuse 

 flexuose wide-trailing* slender densely grey-downy branches 1—2 ft. 

 long*, 2-4 times forked, the uppermost branchlets divaricate with their 

 leaves much reduced. Stipules linear, 1—2 lines. Petioles equalling" 

 or slightly exceeding the stipules. Leaflets 3, obovate, distinctly 

 stalked, rigidly coriaceous, upper surface grey-green, glabrous, lower 

 covered with dense close persistent brownish or grey silky pubescence, 

 the central one 12-16 lines long, 7-9 lines broad, blunt with a faint 

 mucro. Flowers 1-4 together in copious short-peduncled lateral and 

 terminal umbels. Pedicels 1—2 lines, densely grey-downy. Bracts 

 minute, linear, persistent. Calyx 2J-3 lines long, densely grey-downy, 

 the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla half as long again as 

 the calyx, standard violet, keel and wings yellow. Pod sessile, oblong, 

 finely grey-downy, 4-5 lines long, 2-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch I 



27. C. ervoides, Welw. mss. A diffuse perfectly glabrous under- 

 shrub with ascending slender branches 1-2 ft; long, 2-3 times dicho- 

 tomously forked. Stipules rigid, lanceolate, foliaceous, J-J in. long, 

 with one distinct tooth on the outer margin. Petioles 3-6 lines long. 

 Leaflets 3, linear, rigid, acute, the central one 8-12 lines long, 1-2 

 lines broad, both, sides green, strongly-veined. Flowers few, 1-2 to- 

 gether on short lateral and terminal peduncles. Calyx glabrous, 3|-4 

 lines long, the teeth reaching more than halfway down, the upper ones 

 lanceolate, the lower linear. Corolla pale yellow, with a tinge of 

 violet, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod oblong, sessile, glabrous, 

 12-15 lines long, 6-7 lines thick, 6-8-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, in damp meadows, Dr. Welwitsch / 



28. C. abscondita, Welw. mss. An erect undershrub 1-2 ft. high, 

 with numerous ascending straight branches clothed with fine spreading 

 soft grey or brownish hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous. Leaves close, 

 numerous, erecto-patent, quite sessile; leaflets 3, lanceolate, acute, 

 6-9 lines long, both sides thinly clothed with hairs like those of the 

 stem. Flowers 6-15 in very dense sessile, terminal heads, scarcely 

 pedicellate. Bracts linear, as long as the calyx. Calyx 3i lines long, 

 densely silky, the linear teeth reaching much more than halfway down. 

 Corolla yellowish, scarcely as long as the calyx. Pod roundish, turgid, 

 sessile, hard, densely silky, 3-3J lines long, 4-5-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch I 



29. C. Perrottetii, DC. Prod. 2, 128. Stem herbaceous, 1-2 ft., 

 silky, branched from the base. Stipules small, linear. Leaves nearly 



