Crotalaria.'] XLVii. § papilionace^: (baker). 25 



grey-downy branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 3, 

 oblanceolate, 6-9 lines long, subglabrous, green, blunt with a mucro. 

 Flowers in dense sessile terminal racemes up to 30-40 on the main 

 stem. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 1-1J line. Calyx 1 line deep, 

 densely brown-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway 

 down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, the standard densely 

 brown-silky on the back. Pod sessile, roundish, densely silky, 2 lines* 

 long, 2-4-seeded. — C. gracillima, Klotzsch. loc. cit. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper /'Mininga, Speke and Grant I 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Br. Peters! 



Closely allied to the Cape C. globifera, but smaller in all its parts with densely silky, 

 usually 2-seeded pods. 



45. C. parvnla, Welrv. mss. An erect annual under a foot high 

 with numerous finely grey- silky spreading branches from the crown of 

 the root. Stipules very minute, setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 1J-2 

 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 3—6 lines long, blunt with a distinct 

 mucro, slightly grey -silky beneath. Flowers 6-30 in close terminal 

 heads \ in. broad prolonged into the. axils of the upper leaves. Bracts 

 minute, setaceous. Pedicels \— 1 line, finely silky. Calyx 1 line long, 

 silky, the linear- lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla greenish- 

 yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Pod sessile, round, \ in. thick, 

 glabrescent, at first thinly brown-silky, 2-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Br. Welwitschl 



46. C. erythrophleba, Welrv. mss. An erect annual reaching 2 

 ft. high with numerous long slender ascending branches clothed with 

 close fine white silky pubescence. Stipules setaceous, very minute. 

 Petioles 2-3 lines, with a tuft of silvery hairs at the base. Leaflets 3, 

 very narrowly oblanceolate, often laterally complicate, 3-4 lines long, 

 J-| line broad, blunt with a mucro, finely argenteous principally be- 

 neath. Flowers 6—15 in close terminal heads and much prolonged 

 into the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicels |-1 line densely silvery. 

 Calyx I in. long, densely grey-silky, the mouth oblique, the teeth as 

 long as the tube. Corolla 4 lines long, bright yellow beautifully veined 

 with fine parallel streaks of purple, the long gradually- beaked keel ex- 

 ceeding the standard. Ovary oblong, subsessile, finely grey- silky, 2-3- 

 ovulate. Pod unknown. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



47. C. prolongata, Baker. An erect sparingly-branched annual 

 1-2 ft. high with thick stems densely clothed with brown-silky pubes- 

 cence. Stipules setaceous, deciduous. Petioles 9—15 lines. Leaflets 

 3, shortly-stalked, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, both sides green, 

 upper glabrescent, lower finely silky, the central one 12-18 lines long, 

 3-9 lines broad, blunt with a mucro which in the upper leaves is 

 lengthened out and hooked. Flowers 20-50 in racemes dense and 

 cylindrical at the end of the branches, but also laxly prolonged down 

 into the axils of the upper leaves. Bracts minute, linear, silky. Pe- 



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