Goodia.] 
XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
871 
with transverse reticulations sometimes very prominent, sometimes scarcely 
perceptible. — DC. Prod. ii. 117; Bot. Mag. t. 958; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 696 ; 
Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 97 ; Meissn. in. PI. Preiss. i. 88. 
Hab.: Mount Lindsay and other parts of southern Queensland. 
G. medicaginea, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 10, the prevailing Continental form, with shorter and 
smoother pods, passes gradually into the more common Tasmanian form. — Benth. 
22. CROTALARIA, Linn. 
(From the Greek, on account of the seeds rattling in the dry pods.) 
Calyx-lobes nearly equal, or the 2 upper ones and the 3 lower ones more or less 
united. Standard orbicular or ovate ; wings shorter ; keel incurved or angled, 
terminating inwards in a straight or incurved beak. Stamens all united in a 
sheath, open along the upper side ; anthers alternately long and erect and short 
and versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with 2 or more ovules ; style much 
incurved or suddenly bent inwards, with a longitudinal line of hairs above the 
middle on the inner side (sometimes very small) ; stigma terminal. Pod turgid 
or inflated, continuous inside. Seeds not strophiolate, on slender funicles. — 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple or digitately compound with 1,3 or (in species 
not Australian) 5 or 7 leaflets often marked with pellucid dots. Stipules free 
from the petiole, occasionally decurrent along the stem, frequently small or 
wanting. Flowers yellow or blue, in simple terminal racemes, becoming some- 
times leaf-opposed, with a bract, often very small, under each pedicel and minute 
bracteoles adnate to the calyx-tube or just below it. 
A very large and well-marked genus, widely dispersed over the tropical and warm regions both 
of the New and the Old World. 
Series I. Alatae. — Diffuse or suberect pubescent perennials. Leaves simple. Stipules 
decurrent as a persistent wing to the branches. Racemes all lateral, leaf -opposed, 1 toU-flowered. 
Pod stipitate, linear-oblong , glabrous. 
Suberect, stipular wing broad. Leaves thin-oblong, obtuse, or subacute. 
Peduncles elongated, often leafy. Pods long stalked 1. C. alata. 
Series II. Simplicifolise. — Leaves simple, continuous with the short petiole, the 
Australian species all herbs or undershrubs. 
Ovary and pod pubescent or villous. 
Leaves ovate. Stipules leafy, semilunar or falcate. Flowers blue . . 2. C. verrucosa. 
Leaves oblong, linear, or rarely obovate. Stipules setaceous or none. 
Flowers yellow. 
Ovules 2, Pod usually 1-seeded, not exceeding the calyx. Flowers 
small 3. C. crispata. 
Ovules numerous. Pods many-seeded, above lin. long. Flowers 
rather large 4. C.juncea. 
Ovary and pod quite glabrous. 
Upper leaves usually linear. Petals and pod not exceeding the calyx. 
Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, silky-pubescent or shortly villous, the 2 
upper lobes united 5. C. linifolia. 
Calyx lin. long, densely hirsute with long spreading hairs, the 
upper lobes free • 7. C. calycina. 
Leaves round-oblong. Peduncles 3 to 6-flowered. Bracts and corolla 
very small. Pod oblong, 6 to 8-seeded 6. C. humifusa. 
Upper leaves broad, oblong-cuneate or rarely almost linear. Petals 
and pod much longer than the calyx. 
Leaves oblong-cuneate. Flowers large in loose racemes. Calyx 
4 to 6 lines ; pod l£in. long 8. G. retusa. 
Leaves oval-elliptical or oval-lanceolate. Flowers numerous in 
dense racemes. Calyx not above 3 lines, pod under fiu. long . . 9. C. Mitchelli. 
Series III. Unifoliolatte. — Leaves simple, the petiole articulate or geniculate above the 
middle. Stem shrubby. 
Flowers under Jin. long ; standard obtuse. 
Leaves pubescent or villous, at least underneath. Stipules none or 
not decurrent 10. C. Novce-Hollandice. 
Whole plant quite glabrous. Stipules decurrent 11. C. crassipes. 
Flowers ljin. long or more ; standard acute or acuminate 12. C. Cunninghamii. 
