LEGUMINOS #-PAPILIONACEZ). 335 
connate into a closed tube ; five alternate anthers shorter versatile ; 
5 longer subbasifixed. Germen substipitate ; ovules o ; style curved 
glabrous; stigma terminal. Legume linear flat, continuous within, 
2-valved ; sutures slightly thickened. Seeds , shortly funiculate, 
arillate——Shrubs, glabrous or scarcely pubescent; leaves digitate 
3-foliolate; stipules free; flowers’ in simple or branched terminal 
racemes ; bracts and bractlets narrow (Southern Africa’). 
206. Crotalaria L.*—Receptacle cupuliform, lined by adisk. Calyx 
gamosepalous; lobes 5, free or more or less cohering to two lips; 
prefloration valvate. Petals very dissimilar; standard orbicular or 
ovate, apex usually acute or shortly apiculate, at base (above short 
claw) glandular, callous or velvety within; wings obovate or oblong, 
shorter than standard, keel usually longer than wings, incurved or 
angulate down the back, apex rostrate. Stamens 10, connate into a 
sheath cleft above; vexillary stamen very rarely free or nearly so ; 
2 oppositipetalous anthers short versatile ; 5 alternipetalous usually 
much longer, subbasifixed. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate, 2— «- 
ovulate ; style incurved or abruptly inflexed, apex truncate or more 
or less capitate, stigmatiferous more or less longitudinally bearded 
above. Legume oblong or globose, turgid or inflated, continuous 
within, 1— o-seeded, 2-valved. Seeds very campylotropous ; funicle 
slender, often elongated, hilum thickened into a short aril or exarillate. 
——Herbs or shrubs, leaves simple or digitately 3-, more rarely 
5—7-foliolate ; stipules lateral, of variable form, more rarely minute ; 
flowers* in terminal or leaf-opposed, rarely few or 1-flowered, racemes ; 
bracts small or 0, rarely foliaceous ; bractlets 2 lateral; inserted at 
a variable height on pedicel, or on floral receptacle below calyx, rarely 
0 (All warm regions’). 
ii. 185.—EnpL., Gen., n. 6476.—B. H., Gen., 
485, n. 68. 
1. Purple in H. sophoroides, which is H. 
obcordatus of THuns., Prodr. (1794).—Spar- 
tiwm sophoroides BERG., Descr. Pl. Cap., 198 
(1767); pale in H. (Loddigesia) owalidifolia, 
2 Species 2. L., Mantiss., 266 (Crotalaria).— 
Detezss., Icon, Sel., iii. 37, t. 63. — Maunp., 
Bot., t. 198.—Hanv. & Sonn., Fl. Cap., ii. 81, 
82.—Bot. Reg, t. 128.—Bot. Mag., t. 1913 
(Crotalaria). 
3 Gen., n.862(part.).—J., Gen.,854.—GERTN., 
Fruct., iit. 148.—Lamx., Dict., ii. 194; Suppl. 
ii. 400; TUL, t. 617.—DC., Prodr., ii, 124.— 
Envt., Gen. u. 6472 (part.).—B. H., Gen., 479, 
n. 53.—Clavulium Drsvx., in Ann. Se. Nat., 
sér. 1, ix. 407.— Maria-Antonia Part., Nov. 
Gen, (1844), ic—Chrysocalyx GUILL. & PERR., 
Fil. Seneg. Tent., i. 157, t. 48.—Phyllocalyx 
Hocusr., ex A, Ricw., Fl. Abyss. Tent., i. 160, 
t. 34. 
4 Yellow, more rarely blue or purplish. 
5 Species about 100. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., vi. t. 590.—VeEnt., Jard. Cels., t. 17.— 
Roxs., Pl. Coromand., ii. t. 193.— WIGHT, 
Icon., t. 29-31, 200, 208, 278, 383, 421, 480, 
481, 752, 885, 980-982.—Hoox., Jcon., t. 372, 
829, 830.—Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 39.— 
