12 FLOEA OF JAMAICA ^ Crotalaria 



March 1 Priw ! J.P. 875 Morris ! Arcadia, Mrs. Sewell ! Chester Vale, 

 Harris ! Barbican, Liguanea plain, 450 ft., Campbell 1 Providence, 700 ft., 

 Thompson] Fl. Jam. 5930, 8055a; Bog Walk, Port Morant, Lucea, 

 Hitchcock ; Porus, Lloyd. — Tropical and siibtropical regions. 



Annual, 2-4 ft. high, shrubby, erect, pubescent. Leaflets pubescent 

 beneath or glabrescent, 2-3-5(-5) cm. 1. ; stipules setaceous, deciduous. 

 Flou-ers greenish-yellow, 10-12 mm. 1. Calyx 5-cleft, pubescent. Pod 

 oblong, pendulous, about 3 cm. 1. 



8. C. Striata DC. Prodr. ii. 131 (1825); leaflets elliptical, 

 3-9"5(-12) cm. 1.; calyx-segments lanceolate, 4-4 '.5 mm. 1., 

 corolla more than twice as long as the calyx ; pod glabrous, 

 about 4 cm. l.—Bot. Mag. t. 3200; Macf. Jam. i. 241 ; Griseh. 

 op. cit. 180; Sah. torn. cit. 84. ? C mucronata Desv. Journ. 

 Bot. 1814, 76. C. Brownei Bert, ex DC. Prodr. ii. 130 (1825) : 

 Beirhenh. Ic. Eecot. t. 232. C. Hookeri Am. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 i<er. 2, Hi. 248 (1835). C. striata var. acutifolia Trim. Cat. Cet/I. 

 PI 22 (1885). (Fig. 1.) 



Common; in &. Oct. -Dec. ; Macf ady en ; St. Mary, JlfciVab ! St. George's 

 Gap, Purdie 1 Parnell I Wullschlaegel ; March I Prior ; Gordon Town, 

 BaU\ Hope Biver, 1200 ft., Eggersl Cinchona, 5000 ft., J.P. 1174, Morris I 

 Johnson] Castleton road, 600 ft., TJiompson] ¥1. Jam. 8093, Blue Mt. 

 Peak ; Lucea ; Hitchcoch.—Tto^ics. 



Shrubby, to 4 ft. high, erect, puberulous. Leaflets, apex mucronulate, 

 acute, rounded or retuse, cuneate at base, puberulous or glabrate beneath ; 

 stipules wanting. Racemes sometimes as long as 3 dm., many-flowered. 

 Flowers about 1-5 cm. 1. Calyx 5-fid, 2-lipped. ' Corolla : standard 1 cm. 1. ; 

 wings oblong, acute (or obtuse), blade about 1 cm. 1. ; keel 1-5 cm. 1., with 

 a rounded knee in the middle. Pod cylindrical. 



§ 3. Leaves 5-foliolate. 



[C. quinquefolia L. Sp. PI. 716 {l75S).— Griseh. loc. cit.; 

 Wils. loc. cit.; Bak. torn. cit. 84. 



Wilson 1 — East Indies to Philippines. 



Annual, 2 ft. high, erect, puberulous or glabrescent. Leaflets 5, linear- 

 lanceolate, puberulous beneath, 2-7 cm. 1. ; stipules minute, awl-shaped. 

 Racemes many-flowered. Bracts linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Calyx 5-fid, ■ 

 glabrous, half the length of the corolla. Pod oblong-eUipsoidal, glabrous, 

 about 5 cm. 1.] 



[ULEX L. 



Shrubs with spiny branches. Leaves 3-foliolate in seedling 

 plants, in mature plants spinescent without leaflets or reduced to 

 small scales. Stipules none. Flowers yellow, axillary at the ends 

 of the branches. Calyx coloured, 2-partite, 5-toothed. Staminal 

 sheath closed. 



About 20 species in the west of Europe and 2 in the Medi- 

 terranean region. 



U. europseus L. Sp. PL 741 (1753); Macf. Jam. i. 242; 

 Griseh. Fl Br. W. Ind. 180. Type in Herb. Linn. 



