CROTALARIA, 
letted. Height eight feet; ftem fmooth and even, with 
alternate branches ; leaves fmooth, veined, fcurcely an 
inch in length ; the flowers fmooth, yellow, in a kind of 
umbel, two together, terminating the branches-; Itandard 
hoary, pubelcent on the outlide; legumes compreffed, 
fmooth, not pedicelled, acute. Native of the Cape ot 
Good Hope ; where a decodtion of the leaves is efteemed 
a powerful diuretic. 
2. Crotalaria perfoliata, or perfoliate crotalaria: leaves 
perfoliate, cordate-ovate. Stem (hrubby, two to live teet 
high, round, covered with a light-brown bark ; leaves 
fmooth, about four inches long, and near three broad, 
refembling-much thole of our common thorough-wax, 
bupleurum, both in lize and fhape, but Hitler and more 
veined ; the flowers are aimed as large as thofe of the 
pea, all the petals being large ; they are ot a pale yellow 
colour, and come out iingly from the upper part of the 
branches, fitting clofe in the axils of the leaves; and 
appear in Augult. It grows in open woods two hundred 
miles to the back of the lettlements in Carolina. It was 
cultivated, but did not flower,- in the Eltham garden, 
about the year 1732. Miller had it from Dr. Dale, pro¬ 
bably at the fame time ; it flowered with him, but did 
not produce any pods. 
3. Crotalaria amplexicaulis, or ftem-clafping crotala¬ 
ria : ftem-leaves clal'ping, cordate, alternate ; floral-leaves 
oppofite, kidney-lhaped, coloured; flowers folitary. ibis 
is a fmooth fhrub. Native of the Cape ot Good Hope. 
4. Crotalaria fagittalis, or Virginian crotalaria: leaves 
lanceolate ; flipuies (not petioles) decurrent, folitary, 
two-toothed. Root annual; Item herbaceous, half a foot 
high and more, ere< 5 t, fubdivided, ftrict, round, pubef- 
feent. Native of South America and Jamaica. It was 
firfl raifed here in the botanic-garden at Chelfea, from 
feeds fent by Mr. Robert Millar, furgeon, from Porto 
Bello, in the year 1734. Miller makes two fpecies of 
this: 1. Crotalaria pilofa, the feeds of which were fent 
from Vera Cruz by Dr. Houftoun. 2. Crotalaria fagit¬ 
talis, which Dr. Dale fent him from South Carolina; 
and Dr. Houftoun from Jamaica; 10 that it grows na¬ 
turally in feveral parts of America. The latter is a lower 
plant, and the flowers are not more titan half the fize of 
the others. 
5. Crotalaria Chinenfis, or Chinefe crotalaria : leaves 
ovate, fubpetioled ; itipules very minute. Shrubby. Na¬ 
tive of China. 
6. Crotalaria juncea, or channel-ftalked crotalaria : 
-leaves lanceolate, petiolate-feflile ; Item Undated. This 
rifes with an angular, ruflty, ftirf, Hem, from three to near 
Tour feet in height, dividing into three or four branches; 
leaves narrow-lanceolate, alternate, clofely covered with 
foft filvery hairs, on very fliort petioles ; the flowers are 
produced at the ends of the brandies, in lcofe fpikes; 
and are fucceeded by large turgid pods, containing one 
row of large kidney-fhaped feeds. Native of the Eaft 
Indies. The feeds were brought to Mr. Miller from the 
coaft of Malabar before 1768, and fucceeded in the Chel¬ 
fea garden. 
7. Crotalaria imbricata, or imbricate-leaved crotala¬ 
ria : leaves ovate, acute, villofe, felTile ; flowers fubfel- 
file. This is a fhrub, warted with knots from the fallen 
leaves; flowers folitary, purple. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
8. Crotalaria retufa, or wedge-leaved crotalaria : leaves 
oblong, v. edge-fliaped, retufe. This rifes with an her¬ 
baceous Hem near three feet high, dividing into feveral 
branches; leaves pale green, and fmooth ; flowers pro¬ 
duced in fpikes at the end of the branches; they are 
pretty large, and Gf a yellow colour, with, the banner of¬ 
ten purplifh above; feeds from fifteen to twenty, three- 
cornered-reniform, ending in a hooked beak remote from 
the feed, fmooth, fltining, dark-chefnut colour. Native 
of the Eaft Indies; annual. Cultivated by Miller in 
1731. He received the feeds from Boerhaave. It flowers 
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in July; and the feeds ripen in autumn, provided the 
plants are brought forward in the fpring. 
9. Crotalaria feffiiiflora, or feflile-flowered crotalaria : 
leaves lanceolate, fubfeffile; flowers felTile, lateral; Item 
equal. Annual; fcarcely a foot high ; flowersaxillary, 
blue. Native of China. 
10. Crotalaria triflora, or three-flowered crotalaria: 
leaves ovate, felTile, fmooth ; branches angular; pedun¬ 
cles in threes, lateral, one-flowered. The whole plant 
is fmooth; leaves almoft three inches in length. Native 
of the Cape. Biennial ; flowering in June. 
11. Crotalaria verrucofa, or blue-flowered crotalaria : 
leaves ovate ; ftipules lunate, declined ; branches four- 
cornered. This is an annual plant ; ftem herbaceous, 
four-cornered, two feet high, erebf, flexuofe, dividing 
into three or four branches at the top, which have alio 
four acute angles; leaves warted, pale green, on very 
fliort petioles ; flowers alternate, fmootli, ot a light blue 
colour, fucceeded by fliort turgid pods, inclofing one row 
of kidney-fhaped feeds. It flowers in July and Auguft, 
and the feeds ripen in autumn. Native ot the Eaft Indies. 
12. Crotalaria biflora, or two-flowered crotalaria: 
leaves obtufe ; ftems proftrate, herbaceous; peduncles 
two-flowered. Stem erect, a palm in height, round, 
hairy, terminated by the peduncle ; branches from the 
bafe of the ftem, many, alternate, Ample, much longer 
than the erebt ftem. In the garden it puts on an appear¬ 
ance very different from what it has in its native toil, in 
the Eaft Indies. Koenig found it in the iiland 01 St. 
Johanna. 
13. Crotalaria oppoftta, or Cape crotalaria: fmooth, 
without ftipules ; leaves oblong, felTile ; peduncles axil¬ 
lary, two-leaved. Shrubby ; ftems Ample, very fmooth. 
The flower comes out between the leaves ot the pedun¬ 
cle, is Angle, nodding, and yellow. Found by Thun- 
berg at the Cape of Good Hope. 
14. Crotalaria linifolia, or flax-leaved crotalaria : hir- 
fute ; leaves linear, obtufe, hirfute, petioled, without 
ftipules ; ftem angular ; raceme terminating. Obferved 
by Koenig in the Eaft Indies. 
15. Crotalaria bifaria, or two-parted crotalaria: pu- 
befeent, diffufed, ftipuled ; leaves in two rows, the lower 
orbicular, the upper oblong ; peduncles one-flowered. 
Found by Koenig, in the queen ot Tanjour’s garden, 
Amma Koil. 
II. Leaves compound. 16. Crotalaria lotifolia, or lo¬ 
tus-leaved crotalaria : leaves ternate, obovate ; flowers 
lateral, fubracemed. Stems farmentofe, ftender, and 
weak, at the bottom ftiff and woody, but higher up her¬ 
baceous, round, from a foot to eighteen inches in height, 
and more; about the middle dividing into branches, 
which are not very frequent, on which, at fliort inter¬ 
vals, grow fmooth ternate leaves, with a pair ot ftipules 
at the bafe of each petiole ; flowers axillary, on pedun¬ 
cles ftiorter than in fome other fpecies, three or four to¬ 
gether, yellow, refembling thofe of the common lotus; 
the banner larger than the other petals, and reflex, but 
the edges inflex, marked with fo many red lines on the 
hinder part, as to appear wholly red there ; wings and 
keel unfpotted, the latter greenifh yellow; the wings 
converge and cover the keel ; legumes from one to three-, 
fubhirfute, fwelling, rattling when the feeds are ripe. 
The feeds came hither from the Havanna or Mexico. It 
is a native of Jamaica ; flowers in June and July. 
17. Crotalaria lunaris, or lunated crotalaria : leaves 
ternate, ovate, acute ; ftipules femicordatc, lunate. Na¬ 
tive of the Cape of Good Hope. 
iS. Crotalaria laburnifolia, or beak-keeled crotalaria : 
leaves ternate, ovate, acuminate ; ftipules none ; le¬ 
gumes pedicelled. Stem Ihrubby, four or five feet high, 
dividing into many branches; flowers large, yellow, in 
large bunches from the fide of the branches, appearing 
from July to September, and making a fine appearance. 
Annual. 
19. Crotalaria 
