30 XLVII. § PAPILIONACE.E (baker). [Crotalaria. 



reaching three-quarters down. Corolla bright yellow, half as long 

 again as the calyx, the standard silky on the back. Pod oblong, sessile, 

 an inch long, half an inch broad, 15-20-seeded, finally black, thinly 

 clothed with grey spreading silky hairs. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Benguela, Dr., Welwitschl 



61. C. virgattda, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossarrib. Bot. i. 56. Stems' suf- 

 fruticose, 2-3 feet high, with copious ascending curved branches, 

 slightly downy upwards. Stipules very minute. Petioles \-\ in. 

 long, slender. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 

 J-f in. long, 1J-2 lines broad, mucronate or emarginate, upper surface 

 glabrous, lower slightly silky. Flowers in lax elongated terminal 

 racemes of 6-9 flowers and also solitary in the axils of many of the 

 leaves. Bracts lanceolate, minute. Pedicel \ in. long, finely silky. 

 Calyx \ in. long, thinly silky, the teeth reaching three-quarters of the 

 way down, upper lanceolate acuminate, lower linear. Corolla yellowish, 

 twice as long as the calyx, standard \ in. broad, keel with a long beak. 

 Pod sessile, silky, oblong, 4-6-seeded. 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters ! 



62. C. florida, Welw. mss. An undershrub with very numerous 

 rigidly erecto-patent slender deeply sulcate branches inconspicuously 

 grey»downy when young. Stipules 0. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 

 3, oblanceolate, rather fleshy, rigidly coriaceous when dry, 4-6 lines 

 long, blunt with a faint mucro, green, subglabrous when mature. 

 Flowers very numerous in sessile terminal racemes which extend down 

 among the leaves and form a large thyrsoid panicle. Bracts minute, 

 setaceous. Pedicels 1-1 \ line, finely silky. Calyx \ in. long, broadly 

 campanulate, finely adpressed silky, the lanceolate-deltoid teeth shorter 

 than the tube. Corolla bright yellow, f in. long, the obpvate blunt 

 standard 4 lines broad. Pods sessile, globose, subacute, 4 lines long, 

 pointed, 1 -seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, abundant, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



63. C. Steudneri, Schrveinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. xviii. 651. 

 Stem erect, a foot high, branched from the base, hispid throughout. 

 Stipules linear-subulate, \ in. long. Petioles hispid ^-\ in. long. 

 Leaflets three, linear, glaucous-green, glabrous above, silky on the 

 veins beneath, central one an inch long, \ in. broad. Racemes lax- 

 flowered, three or four times as long as the leaves. Bracts equalling 

 the pedicels. Calyx silky, \ in. deep, exceeding its pedicel, cleft half- 

 way down, teeth deltoid. Corolla pale yellow, the long-beaked keel 

 exceeding the standard and wings, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 

 sessile, roundish-oblong, 4 lines long, 10-14-seeded. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Steudner. 



64. C. maxillaris, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossarrib. Bot. 58. Stem 2-3 

 ft. long, erect, suifruticose, with long suberect branches, finely downy 

 upwards. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 1-1 \ in. slightly silky. 



