28 xlvii. ■§ PAPILIONACE^: (baker). [Crotalaria. 



54. C. versicolor, Baker. An erect annual 1-2 ft. high with 

 numerous long finely grey-downy branches curving- upwards from the 

 crown of the root. Stipules setaceous, ^-§ in. long. Petioles 3-6 

 lines. Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate-oblong, blunt with a mucro, 

 reaching 2-8 in. long, 12-18 lines broad, glabrescent above, finely 

 erey-silky beneath. Flowers 6-12 in moderately lax short-peduncled 

 lateral racemes 12-15 lines broad. Bracts setaceous, 1-1J line. 

 Pedicels 1J-2 lines, patent or cernuous, densely grey-silky. Calyx 

 J in. long, coriaceous, thinly grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth (J in. 

 broad) reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla slightly exceeding 

 the calyx when expanded, reddish-blue and yellow, the standard gla- 

 brous on the back. Pod distinctly stalked, an inch long, 6-7 lines 

 broad, inconspicuously grey-downy, 8— 12-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. WelwiUch ! 



55. C. Doniana, Baker. Stem firm-herbaceous, prostrate, more 

 than a foot long, terete, finely-downy, irregularly branched. Stipules 0. 

 Petioles an inch long, spreading, finely-downy. Leaflets 3, sessile, 

 oblong, terminal one 1 J-lf in. long by about half as broad, narrowed 

 to both ends, membranous glabrous and green on both sides. Flowers 

 in few-flowered lax lateral racemes. Pedicels 2 lines long, silky, with 

 small linear-setaceous bracts at the base. Corolla not seen. Pod 

 rather above an inch long, \ in. broad, glabrous, with a pedicel \ in. 

 long. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, O. Don! Kesembles C. orixensia in general 

 habit and pod, but the pedicels short and bracts minute. 



56. C. Onobrychis, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 154. Stem 1^ ft. high, 

 erect, branched, the branches downy, striated. Stipules minute. Leaves 

 stalked, leaflets oblong-obovate or elliptical or sublanceolate, acute, 

 silky beneath. Flowers in many-flowered elongated terminal or lateral 

 racemes. Bracts linear. Calyx silky, teeth equal, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute. Corolla under | in. long, purplish, veined, the standard narrow. 

 Pod oblong, inflated, \ in. long, glabrous, short-stalked. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin Dillon. " Flowers in form and general aspect 

 like those of Onobrychis sativa." Not seen. 



57. C. goreensis, Guill. et Perrott. Fl. Seneg. i. 165. Stem herba- 

 ceous or suffruticose, 1-3 ft. high, copiously branched, finely-pubescent 

 throughout, branches erecto-patent deeply striated. Stipules large, 

 lanceolate-falcate, £-^ in. long. Petioles erecto-patent, slightly silky, 

 1— H in. long. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 

 1—3 in. long, J-f in. broad, mucronate, upper surface glabrous, under 

 more or less finely silky. Flowers in sessile terminal racemose heads, 

 those of the main stem dense 12-20-flowered, those of the branches 

 4-6-flowered. Bracts minute deciduous. Pedicels 1-1 \ lines long, 

 silky. Calyx 3-4 lines deep, very silky, the teeth lanceolate, reaching 

 halfway down. Corolla yellow, tinged with red, twice as long as the 

 calyx, not striated. Pod sessile, §-f in. long, half as thick, oblong, 



