Crotalaria LEGUMINOS^ 9 



[C. tetragona Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi. 263 (1832); leaves long, 

 lanceolate-linear, acuminate, 1-3 dm. 1. ; stipules minute, 

 setaceous, or wanting ; pods tomentose-pubescent. — Griseb. op. cit. 

 179 ; Wils. loc. cit. ; Bah. torn. cit. 78. 



Wilson; ^t. Andrews, Prior; Gordon Town, Roberts \ Silver Hill, 

 Harris ! PI. Jam. 5697. — India to Java. 



Shrub, to 6 ft. high, branches acutely tetragonal, when young pubes- 

 cent. Leaves strigose-^ubescent on both sides or glabrescent. Racemes 

 laxly 6-10-flowered, 1-5 dm. 1. or more. Bracts minute, linear. Flowers 

 lemon-yellow. Calyx 2-lippcd, segments very long, linear-lanceolate, 

 densely brown-velvety, 2 cm. 1. or more. Corolla somewhat longer than 

 the calyx. Pod oblong, dark brown, 3 "5-5 cm. 1.] 



[C. fulva Boxh. FL Ind. Hi. 266 (1832) ; leaves oblong-lauceo- 

 late to oblanceolate (rarely elliptical), 6-8 " 5 cm. 1. ; stipules 

 wanting, or minute, setaceous ; flowers paniculate ; pods thinly 

 silky, enclosed within the calyx. — Griseh. op. cit. 179; Wils. 

 loc. cit. ,\ Bak. torn. cit. 80; 



Bancroft ! St. Mary, McNab ! Wilson ! Shortwood, 500 ft!, Campbell I 

 Hope Mines, 800 ft. ; Hope Kiver course, 600-700 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 0243, 6825, 6943, 9087.— E. Indies to Sumatra, naturalized in Seychelles 

 and Mauritius. 



Shrub 3-8 ft. high ; branches cylindrical, densely clothed with short 

 brown silky hairs. Leaves closely silky, 2-3 cm. br. Racemes compound, 

 in a terminal panicle. Bracts and bracteoles elliptical, cuspidate. Flowers 

 fi-agrant. Calyx S-partite^ sericeous on the outside, 1-1-3 cm. 1.; seg- 

 ments ovate, blunt. Pod globose-ellipsoidal, 2-seeded.] 



2. C. retusa L. Sp. PI. 715 (1753); leaves oblanceolate to 

 oblanceolate-oblong, apex retuse or rounded ; stipules very small, 

 awl-shaped or wanting ; bracts awl-shaped ; pods' glabrous. — Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2561 ; Mac/. Jam. i. 239; Griseh. op. cit. 179; Wils. loc. 

 cit.; Bak. torn. cit. 75; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 281. Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



Fls. in autumn ; common ; Macfadycn ; Distin ! St. Mary, McNab ! 

 Wilso^i 1 J. P. 615, 903, Morris I King's House grounds, Campbell 1 BufE 

 Bay ; Annotto Bay ; Thompson ! Hope grounds, Harris ! St. George, Watt 1 

 Miss Foster \ Gordon Town, jBaH 1 Kingston, Glutei sAso Hitchcock ; Port 

 Antonio, Millspaugh. Fl. Jam. 5709, 6474, 6784, 7918, 8487.— Tropical and 

 subtropical regions. 



Annual, shrubby, 1-3 ft. high, silky-puberulous or glabrate. Leaves 

 glabrous on upper surface, tomentellous beneath, pellucid-dotted, 3-8 cm. 1. 

 (and more), 1-2-5 (3-5) cm. br. Racemes many-flowered, long. Flowers 

 b'howy. Calyx 2-lipped, about half as long as the corolla, 1-1-5 cm. 1., 

 sparingly puberulous ; segments triangular-lanceolate. Standard with 

 purple lines inside, somewhat brownish outside, to 2 cm. 1. Pod oblong, 

 blackish, 3-4 cm. 1. 



[C. sepieea Betz. Obs. v. 26 (1789) (non Burm. /.) ; leaves 

 oblanceolate-oblong, mucronulate ; stipules semi-sagittate, sessile, 

 reflexed, persistent ; bracts ovate, foliaceous, persistent ; pod 



