32 xlvii. § papilionace^: (baker). [Crotalaria. 



lines long, glabrescent above, slightly silky beneath. Racemes both 

 lateral and terminal, laxly 6-12-nowered, 2-4 in. long on peduncles 

 1-4 in. long. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels 1-1 \ lines, silky. 

 Calyx \ in. long, with two setaceous bracteoles at the base, clothed 

 with spreading brown hairs, the lanceolate teeth reaching three- 

 quarters of the way down. Corolla bright yellow, half as long again 

 as the calyx; standard J in. broad. Pod subsessile, linear-oblong, 

 12-18 lines long, f-J in. broad, turgid, clothed with fine spreading 

 hairs like those of the stem, 20-30-seeded. — C. Schimperi, A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. 151. Chrysocalyx Sckimperi, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 

 No. 394. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Sierra Leone, O. Don t 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Petit ! Roth ! 



Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, but perhaps an introduction in the Old World. 



68. C. Grantii, Baker. Sufiruticose, the firm green terete divari- 

 cate branches clothed with short grey fine spreading pubescence. 

 Stipules setaceous, 2-3 lines, persistent. Petioles 1-2 inches. Leaf- 

 lets 3, obovate, reaching 15-18 lines long, 9-10 lines broad, bluntish 

 with a mucro, both sides green, upper glabrous, lower thinly silky. 

 Racemes lateral and terminal, short- stalked, laxly 6-12-flowered. 

 Pedicels \ in., silky. Calyx |— | in. long, densely clothed with long 

 spreading brown -silky hairs, with two small lanceolate bracteoles at 

 the base, the lanceolate teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. 

 Corolla half as long again as the calyx ; standard brown-silky on the 

 back. Pod subsessile, linear-oblong, 18-24 lines long, 9-10 lines 

 broad, turgid, clothed with fine pale brown spreading hairs, 30-40- 

 seeded. 



Nile Land. Right bank of the Nile in 5° N. lat. (as C. incana, L), Spelce and 

 Grant ! 



69. C. Stewartii, Baker. A sparingly-branched annual, 2-3 ft. 

 high, with moderately robust branches, clothed with fine spreading 

 greyish hairs. Stipules setaceous, persistent, 4—6 lines long. Petioles 

 1|— 2 in. Leaflets 3, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed gradually 

 from the middle to a cuspidate point, reaching 2-2|- in. long, 9-12 lines 

 broad, membranous, both sides with a few adpressed hairs. Racemes 

 lax, 3— 12-flowered, reaching 4—5 in. long, both terminal and lateral. 

 Pedicels J in. Bracts 0. Calyx 6-7 lines deep, densely clothed with 

 long spreading brown-silky hairs, bibracteolate at the base, the teeth 

 lanceolate, lj— 2 lines broad, reaching three quarters of the way down. 

 Corolla \ as long again as the calyx, purplish, the standard | in. broad, 

 thinly silky on the back, the keel narrowed gradually into a long beak. 

 Pod (only seen immature) sessile, oblong, densely brown- silky, 10—12- 

 seeded. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Stewart ! 



70. C. fulgida, Baker. An erect annual, 12-18 in. high, very 

 coj>iously branched at the crown of the root; branches 2-3 times 

 forked, clothed with fine spreading grey hairs. Stipules foliaceous, 



