LEGUMIN082E-PATILI0NACEm. 335 



connate into a closed tube ; five alternate anthers shorter versatile ; 

 5 longer subbasifixed. Germen substipitate ; ovules oo ; style curved 

 glabrous ; stigma terminal. Legume linear flat, continuous within, 

 2-valved ; sutures slightly thickened. Seeds c/o, shortly funiculate, 

 arillate. — Shrubs, glabrous or scarcely pubescent ; leaves digitate 

 3-foliolate; stipules free; flowers 1 in simple or branched terminal 

 racemes ; bracts and bractlets narrow {Southern Africa*) . 



206. Crotalaria L. 3 — Receptacle cupuliform, lined by a disk. Calyx 

 gamosepalous ; lobes 5, free or more or less cohering to two lips ; 

 pignoration valvate. Petals very dissimilar ; standard orbicular or 

 ovate, apex usually acute or shortly apiculate, at base (above short 

 claw) glandular, callous or velvety within ; wings obovate or oblong, 

 shorter than standard, keel usually longer than wings, incurved or 

 angulate down the back, apex rostrate. Stamens 1 0, connate into a 

 sheath cleft above ; vexillary stamen very rarely free or nearly so ; 

 2 oppositipetalous anthers short versatile ; 5 alternipetalous usually 

 much longer, subbasifixed. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate, 2- oo- 

 ovulate ; style incurved or abruptly inflexed, apex truncate or more 

 or less capitate, stigmatiferous more or less longitudinally bearded 

 above. Legume oblong or globose, turgid or inflated, continuous 

 within, 1- a-seeded, 2-valved. Seeds very campylotropous ; funicle 

 slender, often elongated, hilum thickened into a short aril or exarillate. 

 — Herbs or shrubs, leaves simple or digitately 3-, more rarely 

 5-7-foliolate ; stipules lateral, of variable form, more rarely minute ; 

 flowers 4 in terminal or leaf-opposed, rarely few or 1 -flowered, racemes ; 

 bracts small or 0, rarely foliaceous ; bractlets 2 lateral ; inserted at 

 a variable height on pedicel, or on floral receptacle below calyx, rarely 

 {All warm regions'). 



ii. 135.— Endl., Gen., n. 6476.— B. H., Gen., Endl,, Gen., n. 6472 (part.).— B. H., Gen., 479, 



485, n. 68. n. 53. — Clavulium Desyx., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 



1 Purple in H. sopltoroides, which is H. sir. 1, ix. 407. — Maria- Antonla Pael., Nov. 

 obcordatus of Thvnb., Prodr. (1794). — Spar- Gen. (1844), ic. — Chrysocalyx GuiLi. & Peer., 

 Hum sophoroides Berg., Descr. PL Cap., 198 Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 157, t. 43. — Phyllocalyx 

 (1767); pale in H. (Loddiyesia) oxalidifolia. HocnsT., ex A. Rich., Fl. Ahyss. Tent., i. 160, 



2 Species 2. L., Mantiss., 266 {Crotalaria). — t. 34. 



Deless., Icon. Sel., iii. 37, t. 63. — Mattnd., 4 Yellow, more rarely hlue or purplish. 



Pot., t. 198. — Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 81, 5 Species about 100. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 



82.— Pot. Reg., t. 128.— Pot. Mag., t. 1913 Spec, vi. t. 590.— Vent., Jard. Cels., t. 17.— 



{Crotalaria). Koxb., PI. Command., ii. t. 193. — WIGHT, 



3 £<=»., n. 862 (part,).— J., GV».,354.— G^etn., Icon., t. 29-31,200, 208, 273, 383, 421, 480, 

 Fruct., ii.t. 148.— Lamk., Diet., ii. 194; Suppl., 481, 752, 885, 980-982.— Hook., Icon., t. 372, 

 ii. 400; III., t. 617.— DC, Prodi:, ii. 124.— 829, 830.— Haev. & Sond., Fl, Cap., ii. 39.— 



