10 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Crotalaria 



glabrous. — Griseh. loc. cit. ; Wils. loc. cit. ; Bah. loc. cit. C. 

 Retzii Hitchc. in Bep. Miss. Bot. Gard. iv. 74 (1893). 



Negro River, Purdie ! Wilson ! Waters ! Lucea, Hitchcock. — India, 

 Pegu, Malacca. 



Shrubby, 2-3 ft. high, glabrate. Leaves pubescent with adpressed hairs 

 beneath, 7-15 cm. 1., 2-5-4 cm. br. Racemes long, many-flowered. Calyx 

 2-lipped, shorter than the corolla, 1"5 cm. 1., glabrous ; segments triangular, 

 acuminate. Pod oblong, 3-5 cm. 1.] 



C. sericea Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 156 (1768) is a different species and has been 

 doubtfully referred to C. assamica Benth. 



[C. nana Burm. /. Fl. Ind. 156, t. 48, /. 2 (1768) ; annual, 1 ft. 

 or less high, with many slender spreading or ascending branches 

 clothed with short silky hairs ; leaves oblong-linear. 1-2 cm. 1. ; 

 stipules wanting ; pods glabrous, about 7 mm. 1. — Griseh. op. cit. 

 179; Wils. loc. cit.; Bah. torn. cit. 71. 



Wilson ; Fairfield, Manchester, Wullschlaegel. — India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Leaves mucronulate, with silky pubescent adpressed hairs chiefly 

 beneath, 4:-(j mm. br. Racemes few-flowered. Calyx 2-lipped, with long 

 silky hairs, about "5 cm. 1. Pod ellipsoidal, black.] 



■"■"Stipules decurrent. 



3. C. sagittalis L. Sp. PI. 714 (1753) (in part); stipules all 

 acute. — Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 280. C. frutescens hirsuta, flore 

 luteo, ramulis alatis, foliis mucronatis Houst. MS. 101, /. 139. 

 C. fruticosa Macf. Jam. i. 240 (1837). 



Houstounl Macfadyen; Job's Hill, St. M.&vy, McNab\ Newcastle, J. P. 

 1434, Hart\ Pen Hill, 2500 ft.; Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 2500 ft.; 

 Salt Hill, St. Andrew, 3800 ft. ; bed of river, Castleton, 490 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Golden Spring, 800 ft., Thompson \ Fl. Jam. 5804, 6923, 8035, 11,855, 

 11,965. — Hispaniola, Porto Rico, continental America from New England 

 to Peru. 



Somewhat shrubby, generally about 1 ft. high, more or less villose with 

 whitish or yellowish hairs, mostly adpressed. Leaves linear, linear-oblong, 

 or linear-lanceolate above, oblong below, sparsely hairy on upper surface, 

 hairy on margin and on midrib beneath, 2-5-6 (1-5-7) cm. 1.; stipules 

 well developed on stem and upper parts of branches, wanting below or 

 represented by linear bracts, free portion lanceolate, acute. Racemes few- 

 flowered. Bracts linear, 5-8 mm. 1. ; bracteoles linear, 4-7 mm. 1. Flowers 

 tawny-yellow (rarely white). Calyx 7-13 mm. 1. Standard and wings 

 about half as long as the calyx; keel a little longer than the standard. 

 Pod oblong, black, glabrous, 2-3 cm. 1. 



Var. fputieosa var. nov. ; 2-4 ft. high ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, greyish-pulverulent especiallj^ beneath, 3-7 cm. 1. — 

 C. fruticosa Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 



Houstoun, seeds sent from Jamaica and grown in Chelsea Physic 

 Garden by Miller, specimens in Herb. Mus. Brit. ! Devon Pen, near 

 Castleton, 300 ft. Thompson ! Fl. Jam. 7973. 



