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Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, on bank of a stream in rain-forest, shrub 3 m. 

 high, showy, much branched, leaves grey beneath, flowers yellow, the keel 

 streaked with red, 1500 m., June 7, 1946, 16291. Widespread in tropical Africa. 



Crotalaria chirindae Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42: 377. 1914; Leg. Trop. Afr. 

 51. 1926; Verdoorn, Bothalia 2: 399. 1928. 

 Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, occasional on roadside in Brachystegia wood- 

 lands, herb 1-1.5 m. high, fruit inflated, 1500 m., June 5, 1946, 16242. Portuguese 

 East Africa, Nyasaland, and S. Rhodesia. 



Crotalaria argyrolobioides Bak. Kew Bull. 1897: 249. 1897; Bak. f. Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. 42: 384. 1914; Leg. Trop. Afr. 52. 1926; Verdoorn, Bothalia 2: 

 401. 1928. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, frequent in Brachystegia woodlands, herb 

 about 1 m. high, leaves greyish beneath, flowers yellow, fruit inflated, 1500 m., 

 June 4, 1946, 16226. Confined to Nyasaland. 



Crotalaria rhodesiae Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42: 401. 1914; Leg. Trop. Afr. 

 56. 1926; Verdoorn, Bothalia 2: 381. 1928. 

 Dedza District: Dedza, occasional in Brachystegia woodland, perennial, sub- 

 prostrate herb, leaves reddish, young shoots flowering after the burning of the 

 grass, flowers yellow, lower surface of standard orange, 1500 m., Sept. 13, 1946, 

 17636. Nyasaland and N. and S. Rhodesia. 



Crotalaria natalitia Meisn. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2: 67. 1843; Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. 

 Bot. 42: 410. 1914; Leg. Trop. Afr. 58. 1926; Verdoorn, Bothalia 2: 381. 

 1928. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, frequent on grassy roadsides, herb 1-1.5 m. 

 high, leaves grey beneath, flowers brownish-yellow, fruit much inflated, 1450 m., 

 June 5, 1946, 16257. Fastern Africa from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Imatong 

 Mountains) southwards to South Africa. 



Crotalaria goetzei Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 28: 399. 1900; Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 42: 411. 1914; Leg. Trop. Afr. 59. 1926. 



Crotalaria rotundicarinata Bak. f. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42: 396. 1914; Leg. Trop. Afr. 

 55. 1926; Verdoorn, Bothalia 2: 396. 1928. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, grassy edges of forest patches, shrub about 

 1 m. high, profusely branched, leaves greyish beneath, flowers yellow, ripe fruit 

 blackish, much inflated, 1820 m., May 31, 1946, 16135, Mlanje District: Mlanje 

 Mountain; Likubula-Tuchila Divide, frequent in forest second-growths along path- 

 ways, shrub 2 m. high, flowers yellow, 2000 m., July 9, 1946, 16753; Luchenya 

 Plateau, occasional in forest second-growths and in neighboring grassland, shrub 

 2-2.5 m. high, flowers yellow, fruit blackish, 1890 m., July 14, 1946, 16837. 

 Southwest Tanganyika Territory and Nyasaland. 



I find gradations between the foliaceous stipules of Crotalaria goetzei and the 

 linear ones of C. rotundicarinata, the various gradations sometimes even on the 

 same plant; I am thus unable to maintain the two as distinct species. 



Crotalaria sp. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, occasional in Brachystegia woodland, 

 herb 30-50 cm. high, flowers yellow, 1400 m., July 27, 1946, 16989. 



This appears near Crotalaria nicholsonii Bak. f. (Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42:346. 

 1914), but is much dwarfer,with shorter inflorescences and short spreading pubes- 

 cence on inflorescence-axes, pedicels, and calyces. A specimen at Kew appears 

 to be the same (Whyte s.n., Nyika Plateau, 1830-2130 m., July 1896). In absence 

 of further specimens and the pods I do not feel it practicable to determine this 

 plant further. 



