Crotalaria.] XLVli. § papilionace^: (baker). 29 



when young- densely silky, glabrescent, 10-12-seeded.— Benth. in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. ii. 589. C.falcata, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 335, non 

 Vahl. C. macrostipula, Steud. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 153. /3. angusti- 

 folia, leaflets linear, not more than 2-3 lines broad. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet I Boteler I Heudelot ! Guinea Proper 

 Thonning, Don I Vogel, Barter ! 



Nile If and. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- Dillon and Petit ! 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



/3 Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Smeathmann ! Banks of the Niger 

 Barter! On the beach at Fernando Po, Mann! 



58. C. flexuosa, Baker. Stems 12-18 in. long, herbaceous, copi- 

 ously and diffusely branched, clothed throughout with long spreadino- 

 silky hairs. Stipules \-\ in. long-, lanceolate-falcate. Petioles l-l| 

 in. long, spreading-, silky. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate 

 leaflets, central 1-1 1 in. long, J=| in. broad, upper surface glabrous, 

 lower thinly silky with long hairs. Flowers in lax 6-8-flowered lateral 

 racemes, which about equal the peduncles. Bracts minute, setaceous. 

 Pedicels \ in. long, cernuous. Calyx silky, f in. long, teeth linear or 

 lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla twice as 

 long as the calyx, the standard oblong, the keel with a long beak. Pod 

 ^-f in. long, not quite so thick, round-oblong, sessile, finely-silky, 

 when young glabrescent, 8-9-seeded. 



South Central. In the interior near the Tropic, Chapman and Baines ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk ! 



General habit just that of the Cape C. obscura, DC, but the flower different and 

 pod shorter. 



59. C. elata, Welrv. mss. An erect shrub 2-3 ft. high with woody 

 finely brown-silky terete branches. Stipules linear, semilunate, 3-6 

 lines. , Petioles 6-14 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate-oblong, 12-18 

 lines ''long, blunt with a faint mucro, upper surface glabrous when 

 mature, lower finely adpressed brown-silky. Flowers 3-6 together on 

 short leaf- opposed peduncles in a lax raceme 3-4 in. long, 18-21 lines 

 broad. Pedicels 3-4 lines. Calyx 8-9 lines long, clothed with thick 

 brown-silky pubescence, the lanceolate teeth reaching much over half- 

 way down. Corolla yellow, an inch long, the standard 8-9 lines 

 broad, the keel 4 lines deep. Pod subsessile, oblong, 18-20 lines 

 long, 8—9 lines broad, clothed with very dense bright brown silky hairs 

 like those of the calyx. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla and Golunga Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



60. C. orthoclada, Welrv. mss. An erect shrub with numerous 

 straight erecto-patent branches densely clothed with short adpressed 

 grey pubescence. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-4 lines, adpressed to the 

 branches. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, reaching 12—18 lines long, 3-4 

 lines broad, blunt with a distinct mucro, glabrous above, finely grey- 

 silky beneath. Flowers 6-12 in lax short-peduncled terminal racemes 

 8-9 lines broad. Bracts 2-3 lines, linear, silky, deciduous. Pedicels 

 1-1 \ line. Calyx 3-3 \ lines, densely grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth 



