PLATE DCI. 



CROTALARIA PULCHRA 



Fair Crotalaria. 



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CLASS XVII 



ORDER IV 



DUDELPHU DECJNDRU. Two Brotherhoods 



Ten Stamens 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



cellatum 



Filamenta 



figura dorsal i. 



Pod on a footstalk, swollen. 



united 



into a tube, which is cleft at the back. 



Crotalari 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



legu 



integerrim 



hairy 



que 



inversely oval, entire, silky, shining leaves : 

 the pods, the calyx which covers them, and 

 the bracts, all shining with silky hairs. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



1 . The empalemenL 



2. The standard. 



3. One of the wings, 



4. The keel. 



5. Chives and pointal. 



6. The seed-bud and pointal. 



f£"!"£5 •rf .***-■■ «™. - Wonnl^, Hwts , which ^ 



magn 



Crotalaria, seeds of which were received hv h.r Ca I \ f P ^ US *" new ***" C 

 under the name of C n„ll if \ * P ' about the ^^ 80 7 , from the East Indies 



under the name ot C. puichernma, wh,ch we have abridged to pulchra, as we can hardly presume to sa 

 wh.ch spec.es „ most beautiful before we have seen the whole genus which fiJ 1 i ! 



of Indian species by Dr. Roxburgh in his unpublished Indian Zs\ lov oV whTc T ^ 



iK» o^ii^,: c a « » . r u riora > a copy or which we have seen n 



Crotalaria 



soon likely to happe 



species already published by Willdeuow) 



- —« *«• /, nut uave we neard or its 

 fore.gn specimens which we have seen with the Catalogue above 



same collection have very large spreading bunches of flowers, and there can be 



ofll 'l^r^ " h ? I 11 " 16 8tr ° n ^ Wil1 bloSS ™ with .qua! profit 



«f the Mysore country in the East 



The 



We received the specimen in the middle of March last 





