PLATE DCXLVIII. 



CROTOLARIA SALTIANA. 



Salt's Crotolaria, 



CLASS XVn. ORDER IV. 

 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Legumen turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum 

 filamenta connata, cum fissura dorsali. 



Pod turgid, inflated, pedicelled. Chives con- 

 joined, with a dorsal fissure. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Crotolaria frutescens, floribus spicatis : ra- 

 mis teretibus, tomentosis : foliis ternatis : 

 foliolis ovatis, tomentosis : petiolis uncia- 

 libus. 



Shkubby Crotalaria. Flowers grow in spikes : 

 branches are round and downy. Leaves ter- 

 nate. Leaflets ovate and downy. Petioles an 

 inch long. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. The standard. 



3. The under-side of the same. 



4. One of the wings. 



5. The keel. 



6. The chives, 



7. Seed-bud and pointal. 



This nondescript species of Crotolaria was introduced by Mr, Salt last April (1811) from the distant 

 region of Abyssinia. We have therefore named it after him, in compliment to that ardour, which in 

 the pursuit of natural history has twice impelled him to undertake a journey to so remote a country. 

 Our figure represents a fine specimen communicated to us by A. B. Lambert, esq., who raised it 

 from seed in his hot-stove at Boyton, and where it flowered last summer (181 1) for the first time in this 

 country. 



