PLATE DXCIII. 



CROTALARIA TETRAGONA. 



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Four-sided Cro talari a. 



CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. 



D1ADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Stamens. 





ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Lbgumen pedicellatum, turgidum. Stamina 



omnia connexa. 



Pod on a stalk, swollen. Stamens all 

 nected. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



CaoTALARiA caule tetragono, strigosoj pe- 

 tiolis brevibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 acumlnatis; stipulis caulera amnlexantibus. 



Crotalaria with the stem 4-sided, with flat 

 pressed hairs : short footstalks : leaves 

 oblong-lanced, and pointed : stipules em- 

 bracing the stem. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



I. The keel. 



d pointal 

 point al. 



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This new and very ornamental species is remarkable for having the under lip of the calyx often undi- 

 vided, and every part of the plant up to the blossom covered with shining close-pressed hairs : nor are 



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downwards like 



part 



styl 



and 



shaped 



runs also along the upper 



and 



of 



must perhaps be considered as bracteae. 



We were favoured with the specimens in November from Lord Valentia's gardens at Arley, along 

 wtth the Plectranthus barbata. His Lordship received the seeds last year from Dr. Roxburgh in India, 

 by the name of Crotalaria tetragona. The plant appears to be shrubby. No account of the species 



before 



ol ume 



near 



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