Crotalaria 



LEGUMINOS^ 



1. CROTALARIA L. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-5-foliolate. 

 Flowers yellow, but blue in C. verrucosa, in racemes terminal or 

 opposite the leaves, axillary in G. lotifolia. Standard roundish ; 

 keel beaked. Staminal sheath split above. Rattle-wort. 



Species about 450, widely dispersed through the warmer 

 regions of the whole world. 



Fig. 1.— Crotalaria striata DC. 



A, Raceme and leaves X 3. 



B, Flower, nat. size. 



C, Wing X 2. 



D, Flower with corolla removed x 2, 



E, Seed x 5. 



(Altered from Reichenbach.) 



§ 1. Leaves simple. 



Stipules (when present) not decurrent. 

 Erect herbs or shrubs. 

 Pods hairy. 

 Stipules foliaceous, lunate. Flowers blue ... 1. C. verrucosa. 

 Stipules minute or wanting. 



[Leaves linear or oblong-linear, 4-10 cm. 1. C.juncea.] 



[Leaves lanceolate-linear, 10-30 cm. 1 C . tetragona.'] 



[Leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, 6-8 cm. 1. 



Flowers paniculate C. fiilva.] 



■ Pods glabrous. 



Stipules very sm&,ll or wanting. Bracts awl- 

 shaped 2. C.retusa. 



[Stipules J-sagittate, Bracts ovate, foliaceous C. sericea.] 

 [Diffuse herb, not more than 1 ft. high, with 



small leaves and pods C. nana.] 



