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[■ Crotalaria . 
Le aves short-petioled, green, membranous, 2-3 in. long, obtuse or acute, 
ovate or oblong-rhomboid; stipules round, obtuse, leafy, persistent. 
Flowers 10-15 in close peduncled terminal racemes. Calyx ifl- long, 
glabrous ; teeth linear, longer than the tube. Corolla slightly exceeding 
calyx ; standard round, white veined with blue ; wing lilac-blue ; keel 
yellowish, veined. Pod oblong, 1-1| in. long, silky, short-stalked ; seeds 
6-8. Jctcq. Ic. t. 144. Bot. Mag. tab. 3034. 
Mauritius, in dry ground at Pamplemousses, and on the hills round Port Louis. 
All round the world in the tropics. C. acuminata , G. Don, is a variety with rhomboid 
acute leaves. Cascarelle a jleurs bleues, and a white variety, Cascarelle d fleurs 
blanches. 
2. C. retusa ? Linn.; DC. Brod. ii. 125. An erect shrubby annual 
2-3 feet high, with terete branches. Leaves nearly sessile, oblanceo- 
late-oblong, obtuse, moderately firm, 2-4 in. long, cuneate at the 
base, obscurely grey-silky below ; stipules minute, setaceous, deci- 
duous. Flowers 10-20 in lax terminal racemes leafy up to the base. 
Calyx \ in. long, glabrous ; teeth lanceolate. Corolla bright yellow, f 
in. deep ; standard with a round limb, veined with purple. Pod 
glabrous, stalked, 1 \ in. long, obling-cylindrical ; seeds 15-20. Bot. 
Mag. t. 2561. Bot. Beg. t. 253. 
Mauritius, on plains and hills all over the island. Seychelles, common in 
all the islands, Horne ! Rodriguez, frequent, Balfour ! All round the world in the 
tropics. Cascarelle jaune. 
* C. fulva, Boxb. FI. Ind. iii. 266, a native of the East Indies, is 
naturalised plentifully in Mauritius and the Seychelles. It is a much 
branched shrub 4-5 feet high, densely silky over the stems and leafy 
parts, with nearly sessile simple oblanceolate leaves 3-4 inches long, 
flowers in an ample panicle with the lower bracts of the branches 
flowerless, calyx f in. long, clasped by a pair of persistent bracteoles, 
upper teeth oblong, lower lanceolate, corolla large yellow silky on the 
outside, and a thinly silky oblong 2-seeded pod as long as the 
calyx. 
* C. incana, Linn ; DC. Prod. ii. 132 (C. purpurascens, Lam. ; DC. 
Prod. ii. 131 ; C. affinis , DC. Prod. ii. 132) is sent from Mauritius by M. 
Bouton. It seems to be a native of America, but is now established, 
both in Tropical Asia and Africa. It is an erect much-branched annual, 
clothed all over with fine spreading soft brown hairs, with minute seta- 
ceous stipules, petioled trifoliolate leaves, obtuse obovate-cuneate leaf- 
lets, flowers 6-12 together in lax terminal and lateral racemes, calyx \ 
in. long with lanceolate teeth, corolla bright yellow little exserted and a 
subsessile oblong-cylindrical pod with 15-20 seeds. 
* C. striata , DC. Prod. ii. 131 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3200 ((7. Saltiana, Andr. 
Bot. Rep. t. 648), spread all round the world in the tropics, is esta- 
blished in Mauritius in fields at Moka and Pamplemousses, Bouton / It 
is a shrubby obscurely grey-silky annual, with minute setaceous 
stipules, petioled trifoliolate leaves, large obovate-cuneate leaflets, 
