Crotalaria.} xlvii. § papilionace2E (baker). 31 



Leaves with three subsessile oblong leaflets, central 1-1 J in. long, A in. 

 broad, apex rounded mucronate, glabrous above, slightly silky below. 

 Flowers in many-flowered elongate terminal racemes 6-12 in. long. 

 Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels | in. silky cernuous. Calyx \ in. 

 long, thinly silky, teeth lanceolate-cuspidate reaching more than half- 

 way down. Corolla yellow, twice as long as calyx ; standard § in. 

 broad, striated, silky outside, the keel long-beaked. Pod sessile, ob- 

 long, f in. long, more than half as thick, very silky, 8-12-seeded. 

 C. earinata, Steud. in Schimp. PL Abyss. 772 non 519 ; A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. 154 in part. 



Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Dr. Brownell! Abyssinia, Schimper! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters ! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk ! 



65. C. senegalensis, Bade in DC. Prod. ii. 133. Stem herbaceous, 

 diffuse, copiously branched, 6-18 inches long, finely downy upwards. 

 Stipules minute, deciduous. Petioles half an inch, slender. Leaves 

 with three sessile oblong or oblanceolate leaflets, central 1-1 \ in. long, 

 \—\ in. broad, acute or rounded and mucronate, upper surface glabrous, 

 lower finely silky. Flowers in copious terminal and lateral long- 

 stalked racemes of 10-30 flowers. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 

 \ in. long, slender, at first erect, afterwards cernuous. Calyx slightly 

 silky, 2 lines long, the teeth lanceolate, reaching three-quarters of the 

 way down. Corolla bright yellow, twice as long as the calyx, the 

 standard f in. broad. Pod sessile, 4—6 lines long, half as broad, finely 

 pubescent, 10-12-seeded. — Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 165. Benth. in 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 582. C. macilenta, Delile, Cent. PI. Afric. 35, t. 3, 

 fig. 2. C. remotiflora, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. No. 2266. C. eari- 

 nata, Steud. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 519 non 772. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Heudelot 1 Brunner ! 

 Nile Land. Nubia, Caillaud, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 

 Lower Guinea. Loanda and Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Luabo, and Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk! 

 Extends south to Natal (Gerrard!) and to the Cape Verde islands. 



66. C. montana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 152. ' Stem erect, 2 ft. high, 

 branched, clothed with long ferruginous hairs. Stipules setaceous, long, 

 acute, silky. Petioles about equalling the obovate leaflets, which are 

 rounded at the apex, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath. Flowers 

 in long- stalked 6-8-flowered lax elongate lateral and terminal racemes. 

 Bracts linear; pedicels short; calyx densely clothed with long silky 

 hairs, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla scarcely equalling the calyx, 

 standard silky on the back. Pod 2 in. long, terete, cylindrical, very 

 silky. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin- Dillon. Not seen. 



67. C. in c ana, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 132. Herbaceous, annual or 

 biennial, erect, reaching 2-4 ft. in height, the divaricate branches 

 clothed with fine spreading brown silky hairs. Stipules setaceous, 

 minute. Petioles 1-2 in. Leaflets 3, obovate, blunt, reaching 12-18 



