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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



51832 to 51842— Continued. 



51833. Crotalaria grantiana Harv. 



A small slender herbaceous plant with an erect, branching leafy stem, 

 1 foot in height. The trifoliolate leaves consist of cuneate leaflets one- 

 half to three-fourths of an inch long and not one-sixth of an inch wide. 

 The small, yellow, striate flowers are borne on filiform peduncles. 

 Native to Natal. (Adapted from Harvey and Sonder, Flora Capensis, 

 vol 2, p. J,3.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 34740, 



51834. Crotalaria incana L. 



A tropical American plant about 1 meter high, erect, branched and 

 somewhat shrubby, and softly gray pubescent. The leaves have three 

 elliptical leaflets. The yellow flowers, with a standard over 10 milli- 

 meters wide, are crowded in 12 to 20 flowered elongated racemes 5 

 to 20 centimeters long. This plant occurs in waste places throughout 

 the Tropics and is in flower all the year. (Adapted from Rock, Legumi- 

 nous Plants of Hawaii, p. 137.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47127. 



51835. Crotalaria laburnifolia L. 



A low shrub with slender, elongated, terete branches, membranous, 

 glabrous leaflets 1 to 2 inches long, and elongated, very lax, terminal 

 and lateral racemes of bright-yellow flowers 1 inch long. The keel is 

 very broad, with a long incurved beak. Native to the western Indian 

 Peninsula, Ceylon, and Malakka. (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of Brit- 

 ish India, vol. 2, p. S-'f.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 49279. 



51836. Crotalaria polysperma Kotschy. 



A densely rufo-villose herbaceous plant with trifoliolate silky leaves 

 and six to eight small, lax, long-peduncled, lateral racemes of violet- 

 blue flowers. The standard is widely obovate, silky pubescent without, 

 and 14 to 16 millimeters long. The wings are oblong -^^th an obtuse 

 tip; the apex of the keel is attenuated into an erect, somewhat obtuse 

 beak. Native to the Nile Land, German East Africa, British East 

 Africa, Sudan, and Eritrea. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, vol. 2, p. 4'2, and Journal of the Linnea'n Society, vol. ^2, p. S21.) 



51837. Crotalaria retusa L. 



A handsome East Indian annual with large yellow flowers in 12- 

 flowered terminal racemes. The large round standard is streaked at 

 the base, and the wings are short and villous at the back. The fluted 

 upright stem, leafy from the base, is 1^ feet high. The oblong, wedge- 

 shaped, entire leaves are clothed beneath with short appressed hairs 

 and are roughish with small elevated points. (Adapted from Curtis' s 

 Botanical Magazine, pi. 2561.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 36969. 



51838. Crotalaria saltiana Andrews. 



A shrub with long, upward-curving, more or less silky branches, de- 

 ciduous stipules, and dense racemes of yellow flowers. The standard 

 is elliptic-ovate, the wings oblong, and the rounded keel 9 to 11 millimeters 

 long. The trifoliolate leaves with small obovate leaflets are silky 

 pubescent below, glabrous or nearly so above. Native to the Sudan and* 

 southern Abyssinia. (Adapted from Journal of the Linnean Society, 

 vol. 42, p. 309.) 



51839. Crotalaria spectabilis Roth. 



A robust undershrub 1 to 1.5 meters high, with oblong or broadly 

 spatulate-oblong leaves which are moderately firm in texture, glabrous 

 above, finely silky beneath, and 7.5 to 15 centimeters long. The folia- 

 ceous stipules are persistent. The yellowish purple flowers, 22 millimeters 

 long, are in 20 to 40 flowered racemes 3 to 5 decimeters long. The 

 plant is- native to India, ascending to an altitude of 3,000 feet in Kumaon. 

 It is cultivated as a garden flower in the Punjab, India, where it is 

 known as Saitni, but it is apparently ne^r cultivated as an agricultural 

 product, though fiber is sometimes preparefl from it, (Adapted from 

 Rock, Leguminous Plants of Hawaii, p. 127.) 



