1897.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 41 



Penang; Curtis! Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics, originally 

 American. 



There is one specimen of this in Mr. Curtis' own Herbarium. No other collector 

 has sent it from Malaya. 



11. Crotalaria Saltiana Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 648. An erect shrub 

 2-4 feet high with robust smooth or slightly sulcate thinly silky 

 branches. Leaves compound, 3-foliolate, petioles 2-3 in. long, leaflets 

 membranous, glabrous above very sparingly silky below, terminal 15- 

 2'5 in. long, larger than lateral, all obtuse cuneate at base ; stipules 

 minute, deciduous. Racemes terminal and occasionally also lateral, 

 usually 1-1-25 feet long, laxly 20-50-fld. ; bracts minute. Galyx -25 in. 

 long, thinly silky ; teeth lanceolate as long as campanulate tube. Corolla 

 • 6 in. long, exserted, yellow with purple stripes or pure yellow, glabrous. 

 Pod subsessile deflexed, subrecurved puberalous when young, ultimately 

 glabrous, cylindric, 1'5 in. long, 20-30-seeded. C. striata DC. Prodr. II, 

 131; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I. 346; Bak. in Flor. Brit. lnd. II, 84 

 (excluding the synonyms C. Broivnei Bertero and C, latifolia Roxb.) 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, Wray ! Scortechini ! Penang, King ! 

 Malacca, Maingay ! Singapore, Kunstler ! Pahang, Ridley. 



Nearly related to, and at times mistaken for G. Brownei Bertero ex DC. in 

 Prodr. II, 130 (G. lanceolata Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 [nomen prius] nee Meyer; 

 C. latifolia Roxb. ex Wall. MSS. in Hort. Calcutta) a native of the West Indies, but 

 now occasionally met with as a spontaneous species in India. From G. Saltiana, 

 C. Brownei differs in having more numerous lateral racemes, with flowers always 

 close-set and racemes never exceeding 6 in., and in having much larger leaflets 

 acute at apex as well as base and more densely silky underneath. The leaves of 

 G. Saltiana are like those of the next species ; of C. Brownei like those of G. bracteata 

 and of Priotropis cytisoides for both of which species it has, at times, been mistaken. 



12. Crotalaria laburnifolia Linn. Sp. PI. 715. An erect shrub 

 2-4 feet high with long slender rounded glabrous branches. Leaves 

 compound, 3-foliolate, petioles 2-3 in. long, leaflets membranous, gla- 

 brous on both surfaces, terminal 1-2 in. long, hardly larger than lateral, 

 all subacute or obtuse, cuneate at the base ; stipules 0. Racemes ter- 

 minal and lateral 6-12 in. long, few- and very lax-fid. ; bracts minute 

 deciduous, pedicels "5 in. long. Calyx '3-"4 in. long, glabrous turbinate, 

 teeth lanceolate as long as tube. Corolla 1 in. long, much exserted, 

 pure yellow, glabrous, keel much incurved. Pod pendulous from a fili- 

 form gynophore '75-1 in. long, glabrous, cylindric 1*5-2 in. long, 20-30- 

 seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 130; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 275; Wall. Cat. 

 5424, mostly; W. & A. Prodr. I, 193; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 345; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 84. 9 Q. pendula Bert, in DC. Prodr. II, 

 130. C. pedunculosa Desv. Journ. Bot. Ill, 76; DC. Prodr. II, 132. 

 Clavulium pedunculosum Desv. Ann. Sc. Nat. IX, 407. Nellia-tandale- 

 cotti Rheede, Hort. Malabar. IX, t. 27. 

 J. ii. 6 



