166 
FLOBA OF ADEN. 
Pod ovoid, 2 lines long, j line broad, shortly stipitate, slightly shorter 
than the calyx. Seeds exarillate, subglobose, smooth. 
This species is nearly allied to G. microphylla Yahl, but differs from 
it by the leaves being sessile, by the falcate rostrum and by the few- j 
ovulate ovary. 
'Flowers .-—From March to April (Defl.). 
Locality: — Goldmore Valley, Crater of the Shum Shum Range on 
debris at the entrance of the Koosaf Valley (Defl.). Rare. 
Endemic in Aden. 
4, Crotalaria striata DC. Prodr. II (1825) p. 131 ; Bot. Magaz. t. 
3200 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. II, 84 ; Oliver FI. trop. Afr. II, 38 ; Harvey ! 
and Sonder FI. Cap. II, 44; Trim. FI. Ceyl. II, 18; Cooke FI. Bomb. 
Pres. I, 303. 
Crotalaria Brownei Reich. Icon. Exot. t. 232 ; DC. Prod. II, 130. 
Crotalaria Hookeri Arn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, III, 248. 
Crotalaria pisiformis Guill. & Per. FI. Seneg. 162. 
Crotalaria fertilis Delile in Ferr. & Gall. Voy. Abyss. 122, t. 11. 
Crotalaria latifolia Hort. Calc. 
Crotalaria pallida Klotzsch in Peters. Mossamb. Bot. 57. 
Description : — Herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, divaricately branched ; 
branches angular and striate, thinly canescent, the very young ones silky; 
stipules minute, deciduous or none. Leaves membranous; petioles 1|- — 3 
inches long, stout, slightly pubescent. Leaflets 2 — 3 by 1— 1£ inches, 
elliptic, obtuse or acute, sometimes emarginate, glabrous above, minutely 
puberulous and glaucous beneath. 
Flowers numerous, in erect terminal and lateral elongate spikate 20-50 
flowered racemes which sometimes reach 1 foot long ; pedicels very short ; 
bracts setaceous, minute. Calyx inch long, slightly pubescent outside ; 
teeth as long as the tube, lanceolate. Corolla dull yellow, veined with 
purple, twice as long as the calyx. 
Pods 1| — 2 inches long, much deflexed, oblong, cylindric, glabrous; 
shortly stalked. Seeds 20 — 30, dark brown. 
Locality : — Aden (Perry, Lunt). 
Distribution : — Throughout the tropics of both hemispheres. 
5. Crotalaria falcata Vahl ex DC. Prodr. II, 132; Benth. in 
London Journ. Bot. II, 585; Baker in FI. trop Afr TI, 40. 
Crotalaria striata Schum. et Thon. PI. Guin., non DC. 
Description : — Stem fruticose, 2 • — 3 feet high, diffusely and divaricately 
branched, slightly silky upwards. Stipules none. Petioles 1 inch long. 
