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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



207. Priotropis Wight & Arn. 1 — Flowers of Crotalaria. Legume 

 stipitate oblong piano-compressed, continuous within, ex -seeded, 2- 

 valved. — A shrub ; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; flowers 2 racemose. 

 Other parts of Crotalaria {Mountains of India 2 ). 



208 ? Pentadynamis E. Bn. 4 — Flowers almost of Crotalaria ; 

 "keel obtuse, gibbous towards base, equal to wings. Stamens 10, 

 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers, 5 larger linear, 5 ovate. Style straight 

 from bowed base, bearded behind, stigma terminal obtuse. Legume. 

 .... ? — A herb (or undershrub), hoary-silky ; stem erect angular ; 

 leaves 3-foliolate; flowers 5 racemose." {S. Australia*). 



209. Heylandia DC. 7 — Flowers of Crotalaria ; 2 superior calyx- 

 lobes shortly connate. Germen oo-ovulate. Legume ovate com- 

 pressed, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds 1, 2, exarillate; fanicles 

 filiform. — A prostrate herb ; leaves simple entire ; flowers small 

 solitary axillary {India 9 ). 



210. Dichilus DC. 9 — Calyx 2 -lipped; upper lip 2-, lower 3- 

 toothed. Standard ovate or suborbicular ; wings obliquely oblong ; 

 keel longer than standard and wings, obtuse. Stamens of Crotalaria, 

 Germen co-ovulate; style incurved glabrous; stigma terminal. 

 Legume linear compressed subtorulose eglandular, with thin septa 

 inside separating seeds, 2-valved. Seeds shortly funiculate, exarillate. 

 — Erect slender undershrubs (not viscid); leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; 

 stipules inconspicuous ; flowers 10 solitary at ends or in forkings of 

 twigs; bractlets small {S. Africa^). 



Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 18, t. 1-4; 

 Fl. Austral., ii. 78.— Bakee, in Oliv. Fl. Trop, 

 Afr., ii. I.—Bot. Reg., t. 253, 377, 447, 982, 

 1137.— Bot. Mag., t. 490, 1«J33, 2027, 2561, 

 2714, 3006, 3034, 3200.— Walp., Rep., i. 583 ; 

 ii. 835 ; v. 435 ; Ann., i. 204 ; ii. 314 ; iv. 459. 



1 Prodr., 180.— Endl., Gen., n. 6172 ? f. — 



B. H., Gen., 480, n. 54. 



2 Yellow. 



3 Species 1. P. cytisoides Wight & Any., 

 loc. cit. — MiQ., Fl. hid. Bat., i. p. 1, 34K.— 

 Benth., in Hook. Journ., ii. 594. — Walp., Ann., 

 iv. 461. — Crotalaria cytisoides Roxb., Cat. 

 Eort. Calc, 54.— DC, Prodr., ii. 131, n. 78. — 



C. psoralioides Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal., 242. 



4 In App. Sturt Exped., 76.— B. H., Ge,>., 

 480, n. 55. 



5 "Yellow." 



6 Species 1 (probably a variety of Crotalaria 

 dissitijlora Benth., according to P. Muell.). 



I M6m. I.rgton., 1<J8, t. 34; Prodr., ii. 123 — 

 E1TDL., Gen., n. 6170.— 1!. II., (Ten., 479,11. 52.— 

 Goniogyne DC, in Ann. Sc. Nat., sor. 1, iv. 91. 



8 Species 1. Petit., Gaz., t. 30, fig. 11 

 (Lens).— W., Spec, iii. 1169 (Hallia).— Veus., 

 Syn., ii. 318, n. 12 (Lespedezu). — Wigut & ABK., 

 Prodr., i. 180. 



9 Mem. Legum., 201, t. 35 ; Prodr., ii. 136.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6480.— B. H., Gen., 479, n. 

 51. — Calycotome E. Met., Comm. PL Afr. 

 Austr.,113 (nee Link). — Melinospermum Walp., 

 in Lilian n. \iii. ")27. 



10 Yellow, with nodding pedicels. 



II Species 3. Hakv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 51. 



