Crotalaria.] xlvii. § pa pi lion ace iE (baker). 27 



Stipules very minute, setaceous. Leaves sessile. Leaflets 3, oblong or 

 oblanceolate-oblong, the central one reaching" 18-24 lines long, 8-12 

 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, 

 persistently clothed beneath with short adpressed grey-silky hairs. 

 Flowers 3-6 in copious lax sessile or shortly-peduncled terminal 

 racemes. Bracts minute, linear. Pedicels 3-6 lines, rigidly erecto- 

 patent, densely brown-silky. Calyx 4|-5 lines, coriaceous, thinly 

 silky, the lanceolate teeth longer than the broadly campanulate tube. 

 Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, pale-purplish when dried, all the 

 petals thick in^ texture, densely silky on the outside. Pod shortly- 

 stalked, oblong, an inch long, half as broad, densely clothed with per 

 sistent red-brown velvety pubescence, 12-15-seeded. 

 Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitschl 



52. C. cor data, Welrv. mss. A shrub 2-3 ft. high, many times 

 dichotomously branched with very flexuose almost scandent branches 

 clothed with adpressed grey-silky pubescence. Stipules rigidly coria- 

 ceous, forming a wing to the petiole, reaching an inch long, | in. 

 broad, obcordate, cuneately decurrent on the branch. Main petioles 

 12-16 lines. Leaflets 3, shortly stalked, oblanceolate, reaching 2-3 in. 

 long, 9-12 lines broad, bluntish with a distinct mucro, subcoriaceous, 

 pale green, glabrous above, densely clothed with adpressed persistent 

 grey or brown silky pubescence beneath. Flowers 6-12 in moderately 

 lax shortly-peduncled terminal racemes. Bracts linear, minute. 

 Pedicels 3-4, ultimately 6-8 lines. Calyx \ in. long, densely adpressed- 

 silky, the lanceolate acuminate teeth reaching down nearly to the base. 

 Corolla reddish when dried, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod shortly 

 stalked, oblong, 12-15 lines long, j in. broad, densely persistently 

 brown-silky, 10-12-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, sparingly in two places, Dr. Welwitsch I 



53. C. orixensis, Roxo. ; DC. Prod. ii. 131. Stems herbaceous, 

 6-18 in. long, prostrate or suberect, copiously branched from the base, 

 clothed with long spreading silky hairs. Stipules small, linear-lanceo- 

 late, spreading or decurved. Petioles J-l| in. long, , slender, silky. 

 Leaves with three sessile oblong-obovate leaflets, central one f-lj in. 

 long, \ in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower thinly 

 silky. Flowers in copious stalked very lax lateral racemes of 3-6 

 flowers each. Bracts conspicuous, cordate-ovate, pefsistent, lower 

 ones sometimes \ in. broad. Pedicels slender, spreading, the lowest 

 \ in. long. Calyx silky, \ in. deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, reach- 

 ing- three-quarters *of the way down. Corolla scarcely exceeding the 

 calyx. Pod stalked, the stalk half as long as the calyx, f-J in. long, 

 half as broad, glabrous, many-seeded.-^ Wight et Arn. Prod. i. 193 ; 

 Mart, in Denk. Acad. Mun. vi. 157 t. H. . Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 ii. 588. C. macropoda, Hochst., A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 157. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- Dillon. 



An Bast Indian species, well marked in the group by its peculiar raceme and large 

 persistent cordate bracts. 



