4:0 xlvii. § papilionace^e (baker). [Crotalaria. 



within filled with entangled fine silky hairs. — Benth. in Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. ii. 583. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy ! Schweinfurth / 



Distinguished from all the other species by the pod being filled with wool, so that it 

 is most likely the C. farcta, mentioned by name only by R. Brown in Salt's Travels. 



93. C. cylindrocarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 133. Stem suffruticose, 

 erect, branched from the base, 1J-2 ft. high, slightly downy. Stipules 

 \-\ in. long, erect, semilunate, persistent. Petioles spreading, 1—1^ in. 

 long. Leaflets three elliptic- oblong, pale green, scarcely pubescent 

 beneath, narrowed towards the base and about as long as the petiole. 

 Flowers in lateral and terminal racemes. Calyx silky, cut down to a 

 shallow cup, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla yellow, middle sized ; 

 standard \ in. long, oval, striate. Pod sessile, oblong-cylindrical, sub- 

 compressed, an inch long, short-silky, 10-12-seeded. — Guill. et Perr. 

 Fl. Seneg. 164. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet I Roger I Guinea, banks of the Gaboon, 

 Duparquet (fide Baillon). 



94. C. recta, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1083. Stems suf- 

 fruticose, 2—3 ft. high, only thinly silky when young, soon quite gla- 

 brous. Stipules 2-3 lines, linear, persistent. Petioles 9-12 lines. 

 Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, glaucous, glabrous, obovate, reaching 

 2J-3 in. long, 12-15 lines broad, blunt with a mucro. Flowers in 

 moderately lax terminal racemes reaching a foot long. Bracts linear, 

 persistent, 2-3 lines. Pedicels 2-4 lines. Calyx f in. broadly cam- 

 panulate, glabrous, the teeth equalling the tube, the upper ones deltoid, 

 the lower lanceolate. Corolla J in. long-, the standard exceeding the 

 wings and keel. Pod subsessile, 18-21 lines long, J in. thick, turgid, 

 glabrescent, 20-24-seeded.— Ferret et Gal. Voy. Abyss. 121, t. 10. C. 

 simplex, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 153. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- Dillon. 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk I Waller I 



95. C. falcata, Vahl; DC. Prodr. ii. 132. Stem fruticose, 2-3 ft. 

 high, diffusely and divaricately branched, slightly silky upwards. 

 Stipules none. Petioles 1 in. long. Leaflets 3, obovate subsessile, 

 central 1-1J in. long, f-1 in. broad, apex rounded mucronate, upper 

 surface glabrous, lower slightly silky in the young plant. Flowers in 

 long-stalked lax terminal and lateral racemes. Bracts minute. Pedicels 

 1 line long, silky, erecto-patent Calyx slightly silky, \'m. long, the 

 teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla yellow, rather 

 more than twice as long as the calyx, keel much upcurved. Pod 

 sessile, cylindrical, 1-1 J in. long, \ in. thick, very silky when young, 

 15-20-seeded.— Benth. in. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 585. C. striata, 

 Schum. et Thon. PI. Guin. 336, non DC. ? 



Upper Guinea. Niger country, Ansell ! Vogel I More shrubby than C. striata, 

 with shorter petioles, smaller flowers, and broader leaflets. 



