Crotalaria.\ xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). 33 



semilunate, persistent, f- J in. long. Petioles 6-12 lines. Leaflets 3, 

 oblanceolate, the young ones clothed like the stem, the old ones gla- 

 brescent, blunt, with a mucro, reaching 12-15 lines long, 2-4 lines 

 broad. Flowers 4-12, in very lax, copious, lateral and terminal, long- 

 and-short-peduncled racemes more than an inch broad. Bracts obso- 

 lete. Pedicels 2-3 lines, finely silky. Calyx 4 lines, with a pair of 

 deciduous lanceolate bractlets at the base as long as itself; teeth lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, exceeding the tube. Corolla bright yellow, not striated, 

 8^9 lines long, glabrous ; standard ovate, 8-9 lines broad. Ovary dis- 

 tinctly stalked, linear, glabrescent. Pod unknown. 

 Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy deserts, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



71. C. lachnocarpa. Hochst. in.Schimp. PI. Abyss. 780. Stem 3-6 

 ft. high, suffruticose, branched, deeply striate, densely clothed with 

 long bright brown silky hairs. Stipules £ in. subfalcate, acute, per- 

 sistent. Petioles J-l in. long. Leaves with three oblong- obovate 

 subsessile leaflets, central 1J-3 jn. long, J-l in. broad, both sides 

 thinly silky. Flowers in dense usually terminal racemes, sometimes 

 6 in. long. Pedicels \ in., very silky. Calyx J-f in. long, densely 

 tomentose, cut three quarters of the way down, upper lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate, lower longer and narrower. Corolla bright yellow, half or 

 a third as long again as the calyx ; petals very thick, standard J-f in. 

 broad. Pod sessile, 1-1 J in. long, | in. thick, densely clothed with 

 close-spreading bright brown silky tomentum, 16-18-seeded. C. lack- 

 nophora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 151. 



Upper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Barter! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quar tin- Dillon! and others. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch 1 



72. C. decumbens, Welw. mss. Annual with trailing moderately- 

 branched stems reaching 2 ft. long, densely clothed upwards with 

 spreading brownish hairs. Stipules semilunate, foliaceous, 3-4 lines 

 long. Petioles spreading, 3—6 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, the 

 central one 12-21 lines long, subacute, mucronate, both sides green, 

 with a few short adpressed grey hairs. Flowers 6—10, in close long- 

 peduncled terminal heads. Bracts linear, 3—4 lines. Pedicels downy, 

 1J-2 liDes. Calyx 3 lines, downy, the lanceolate teeth as long as the 

 tube. Corolla twice the calyx, yellowish ; keel purplish. Ovary linear, 

 sessile, silky, multiovulate. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



73. C. uncinata, Welw. mss. Herbaceous, diffuse, 1J-2 feet high, 

 with finely grey-downy branches 2-3 times forked ; branchlets erecto- 

 patent. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petioles 6-12 lines. Leaflets 3, 

 lanceolate-oblong, narrowed gradually to a mucronate point, glabrous 

 above, faintly grey-downy below, the central ODe reaching 12-18 lines 

 long, 5-8 lines broad. Flowers up to 20-25 in copious lax usually 

 terminal racemes reaching 6—8 in. long, and an inch broad. Bracts a 



