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PE AEE > COCCERAR. 
CROTOLARIA J@NCE A. 
Rushy-stalked Crotolana. 
CESS XVI. ORDER I. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
LeGuMEN turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum. 
Filamenta connata, cum fissura dorsali. 
Pop turgid, inflated, pedicelled. Chives coft- 
joined, with a dorsal fissure. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Crororarta, foliis simplicibus lanceolatis Croroxtaria, with simple lanceolate some- 
subsessilibus, leguminibus glabris, ra- what sessile leaves, smooth pods, a ter- 
cemo terminali, caule sulcato. Willd. Sp. minal bunch of flowers, and a furrowed 
Pl. 3. 974.—Curt. Bot. Mag. 490. | 
stem. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement. 
2. The standard. 
3. One of the wings. 
4, The keel. 
5. The chives. 
6. The same spread open. 
7. The seed-bud and pointal. 
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Tue species of Crotdlaria here represented is a native of Malabar and the coast of Coromandel. 
It was obligingly sent us in bloom last August by the Hon. Mr. Irby, of Farnham Royal, Bucks, and 
was raised by him from East Indian seeds. Its root is annual; and the plant, in consequence of it, 
admits of increase by seeds only, which should be sown early on a hot-bed, with the most tender 
annuals, and the young plants when large enough should be transplanted into separate pots of rich 
earth ; and after they have sufficiently recovered the effects of removal, they should be taken into the 
hot-house, the assistance of which is requisite to bring them to maturity. They rise with slender and 
rather rushy stems, which are but slightly branched, to the height of two or three feet, and make a fine 
appearance when in flower ; but they are, like many other tender leguminous plants, very subject to the 
annoyance of insects, and more especially to that almost indestructible pest of stoves, the red spider ; 
the best mode of destroying which is that of steaming the plants; that is, keeping them well watered, 
and in a hot and humid air. 
Some of our friends conceive this plant to differ from that which is figured in the Botanical Maga- 
zine, No. 490. It is true, I found the seed-bud quite silky ; and if the full grown pod (which I never 
saw *) should likewise be so, it would certainly be worthy distinguishing from that plant, which is said 
to have pacts and therefore, in all probability, naked pods, 
Bs Neither have I yet seen the pod of the Crotolaria figured in the last‘number, which, if it should prove cylindrical 
and not turgid, would refer'that plant to the genus Lebeckia, with which in habit it very well accords. 
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