XLIII. LEGUMINOS.E. 
375 
Crotalaria .] 
with 15 to 20 ovules or even more. Pod 1 to l£in. long, tomentose-pubescent, or 
at length nearly glabrous. — C. oblonyi folia. Hook. Ic. PI. under n. 830 ; C. 
Mitchelii, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 50, not of Benth. 
Hab.. Gulf of Carpentaria to Brisbane Biver. 
The species contains the 3 following rather marked forms : — 
a. parvijUyra. Leaves glabrous above. Flowers small. Pod oblong, about fin. long. 
b. oblongifolia. Leaves glabrous above or slightly pubescent. Flowers rather large. Pod 
above lin. long, much inflated. 
c. lasiophylla. Leaves softly pubescent on both sides. Flowers rather large. Bracts closely 
reflexed. — Benth. 
11. C. crassipes (stalks thick), Hook. Ic. PI. t. 830; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
182. Apparently a tall and erect plant, closely allied to C. Novce-Hollanilice, with 
the same oblong or elliptical obtuse leaves on articulate or geniculate petioles, 
but the whole plant is perfectly glabrous, and the subulate stipules and the back 
of the petiole are continued below the insertion of the leaf into raised angles 
shortly decurrent on the stem. The inflorescence is that of C. Novce-Hollanilice, 
the flowers rather larger and the calyx-lobes rather longer. The ovary is as 
glabrous as the rest of the plant. 
The Flora Australiensis description is given because I have had fragmentary specimens from 
northern Queensland which I considered might probably belong to this species. 
12. C. Cunninghamii (after Allan Cunningham), Ii. Br. in App. Sturt 
Exped. 8 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 182. A shrub of 2 to 3ft. (F. v. M., Fragm. ix. 
156, says it attains the height in some localities of 20ft. and also that the leaves 
are sometimes trifoliolate), with softly tomentose terete or slightly angular 
branches. Leaves ovate, usually broad, very obtuse, 14 to 3in. long, densely and 
softly tomentose-pubescent or villous on both sides, the petiole £ to fin. long, 
articulate or geniculate above the middle. Stipules and bracts softly subulate, 
sometimes rather long, but very deciduous. Racemes terminal, usually short and 
dense, sometimes reduced to a sessile cluster, rarely 4 to 5in. long. Flowers very 
large, of a yellowish-green colour, more or less streaked with dark lines. Calyx 
tomentose, the tube about 3 lines long, the lobes varying from that length to 
twice as long, all nearly equal. Standard ovate, acuminate, about l|in. long 
when fully developed ; keel rather longer ; wings shorter. Ovary shortly stipi- 
tate, villous, with 20 or more ovules. Pod coriaceous, tomentose, 14in. long. — 
Hook. Ic. PI. t. 829 ; F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 52. 
Hab : The Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller, Leichhardt, and many other parts of tropical 
Queensland. 
13. C. trifoliastrum (leaves 3-foliolate), Willd.; W. and Am. Prod. 191 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 183. A perennial with rather slender erect ascending or 
decumbent branching stems, usually 1 to 2ft. high, more or less pubescent. 
Leaflets 3, usually oblong-cuneate, but varying from obovate and under |in. long 
to linear-cuneate and about lin. long, very obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, hoary 
or pubescent underneath, the petiole slender. Flowers usually small, but variable 
in size, in terminal racemes of 1 to 3in. Calyx pubescent, about 2 lines long, the 
lobes narrow and much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones rather smaller 
than the others. Standard broad, exceeding the calyx, but usually shorter than 
the straight beak of the keel. Ovary sessile, pubescent, with 2 ovules. Pod 
about 2 lines broad and not longer, tapering into a short hooked point, pubescent 
or nearly glabrous.— Wight, Ic. t. 421. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne ; Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; 
Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Port Denison, 
Fitzalan. 
F. v. Mueller, Fragm. iii. 5G and ix. 157, unites this with C. medicaginea, Lam., but the latter 
appears to be always prostrate, with small broad leaflets, unless when drawn up in luxuriant 
Pari II. Ii 
