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FLOBA OF ADEN. 
Distribution : — Tropical and subtropical regions. 
Stamens monad elphous. 
Pod inflated — 
Pod 8-10 lines long, silky 1. C. lupinoides. 
Pod 1| — 2 inches long, glabrous , . . . . 4. C. striata. 
Pod 1 — li inches long 5. C. falcata. 1 
Pod not inflated . . . . . . . . 2. C. leptocarpa. 
Stamens diadelphous . . . . . . , . 3. C. Schweinfurthii. 
1. Crotalaria lupinoides Hocbst. in Herb. Kotsehv PL Nub. n. 41; 
Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. II, 583. 
Description : — Suffruticose ; branches spreading, curved, upper part 
thinly silky. No stipules. Petioles about 1 inch long, glabrous. Leaflets 
3, subsessile, oblong-obovate, central one 1 — 1^ by | — f inch, upper 
surface glabrous, the lower thinly silky. 
Flowers in elongate many-flowered, lax, stalked, terminal and lateral 
racemes, the main ones ultimately 8- — 12 inches long. Bracts verv 
small, setaceous. Pedicels silky, cernuous, | inch long. Calyx slightly 
silky, 2 — 3 lines deep, teeth lanceolate, reaching about half way down. 
Corolla bright yellow, \ inch deep. 
Pod short-stalked, cylindrical, much curved upwards, 8 — 10 lines long, 
under J inch thick, silky on the outside, filled within with fine silky 
hairs. 
The seeds usually remain undeveloped. Schweinfurth found ripe 
seeds only in one case, viz., on specimens which he collected on the left 
side of the Nile at Dar Matamma (Nubia). The seeds were 3.5 mm. 
long and 2*5 — 3 mm. broad, oval to triangular, shining, not smooth, 
leather-yellow. 
Flowers and fruits: — December and March (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Wadi Maala (Schweinf.), ravine south-west of the Tower 
of Silence (Defl.), on the way from Aden to the Shum Shum Range at a 
height of about 500 feet (Busse) ; without locality (Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Upper Egypt, Nubia, Eritrea, Kordofan, Yemen. 
2. Crotalaria leptocarpa Balf . f. Proceed. Rov. Soc. Edinb. XXXI, 
66, tab. XIV, A. 
Crotalaria dubia Balf. f. Proceed. Roy. Soc. Edinb. XI, 508 (non 
Graham) . 
Description : — A low herb, stem woody, short, subterraneous ; branches 
sub filiform, numerous, with long internodes, wide-patent, often feet 
long, decumbent. Leaves palmately trifoliate, petiolate, villous at the 
1 C. falcata is distinguished from C. striata by being more shrubby, having shorter 
petioles, smaller floweis, and broader leaflets. 
