42 xlvii. § papilionace^ (baker). [Crotalaria. 



100. C. lotifolia, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 134. Fruticose, with straight 

 finely grey-silky hranches. Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous. 

 Petioles l|-2 in., erecto-patent. Leaflets 3, obovate-oblong, glabrous 

 above, finely grey-silky below, bluntish, emarginate or faintly mucro- 

 nate, reaching 2-3 in. long, 12-18 lines broad. Flowers 1-4 together 

 in the axils of many of the leaves, if more than one racemose or um- 

 bellate. Pedicels 3-6 lines. Bracts linear, very minute. Calyx f in., 

 finely grey-silky, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla 

 nearly twice the calyx, yellow, faintly veined. Pod distinctly-stalked, 

 glabrescent, 1J-2 in. long, J in. broad, 12-15-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Coastj Dr. Vogel ! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Dr. Welwitsch! 

 A well-known very distinct West India species. 



101. C. platycalyx, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 860. Stem 

 2 ft. high, herbaceous, erect, slightly branched, thinly silky upwards. 

 Stipules \ in. long, spreading, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 1J-2 in. 

 long, slender, erecto-patent, slightly silky. Leaflets 3, subsessile, the 

 central one 2-2 J in. long, 1J in. broad, acuminate, both sides nearly 

 glabrous. Flowers in few-flowered lax stalked lateral racemes. Pedicel 

 J in. long 7 erecto-patent, with two small lanceolate bracteoles at the 

 base and two large ovate bracteoles below the calyx. Calyx slightly 

 silky, | in. deep, teeth foliaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way 

 down, the three lower ones lanceolate-spathulate, 2 lines broad, two 

 upper ones nearly twice as broad, straight on the lower, broadly 

 rounded on the upper side. Corolla yellow; keel long-beaked and 

 much upcurved. Pod long-stalked, oblong-cylindrical, 1J-1 J in. long, 

 | in. broad, glabrous, many-seeded. — Phyllocalyx Quartinianus, A. Rich. 

 Fl. Abyss, i. 160, t. 34. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- Dillon. 



102. C. Quartiniana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 158. Stem a foot long, 

 herbaceous, with diffuse spreading branches, thinly clothed with 

 spreading silky hairs. Stipules minute, setaceous. Petiole 1J in., 

 silky, herbaceous. Leaflets 3, subsessile broad-oblong, central 1J in. 

 long, f-1 in. broad, acuminate, the upper surface glabrous, lower 

 thinly silky. Flowers in lax long-stalked lateral racemes of 3-4 flowers 

 each. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, f-1 in. long. Calyx J in. long, 

 teeth lanceolate, foliaceous, reaching three-quarters of the way down, 

 two upper ones \ in. broad, oblique. Corolla reddish, slightly exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; standard f in. broad. Pod glabrous, with a pedicel \ in. 

 long, 1-1 J in. long, f-| in. thick. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin- Dillon. Roth! 



Habit of C. orixensis and curtipoda, but the pod longer, and flowers larger. 



103. C. polysperma, Kotschy in Schweinf. Reliq. Kots. 18, t. 14. 

 Herbaceous, densely rufo-villose. Stipules linear, 3 lines. Petioles 



