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~CROTALARIA purpurea. 
Purple Crotalaria. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. 
Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legumen 1-loculare bi- 
valve. a 
CROTALARIA. Cal. profundé trifidus, lacinia infim4 sub- 
trifida. Corolle vexillum alis et carina sepé longius. Stam. omnia 
connexa cum fissura dorsali. Legumen pedicellatum turgidum {-2-sper- 
mum. Herbe aut frutices; folia simplicia aut ternata aut rarits digi- 
tata; stipule subnulle, aut conspicue et & petiolo plerimque distincte ; 
flores sepé spicati, nunc terminales, nunc axillares aut foltis oppositi. 
Legumen in plurimis breve 1-2-spermum, in quibusdam longius poly- 
spermum, Jussieu gen, 354. 
Div. foliis compositis. 
C. purpurea, foliis ternatis: foliolis obovatis retusis, racemis termin 
bus, floribus saturaté purpureis. Venten. malmais. 66. 
Crotalaria purpurea. Persoon syn. 2.985. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 273. 
Frutex orgyalem modo acquirens caulem, erectus, infra nudiusculus et fusco- 
corticatus, supra contractits ramosus, ramis sparsis, foliatis, villoso-incanis. 
Folia laxé et irregularitér sparsa, ternata, petiolo et subtis appressé villosa, 
juniora supra lanugine feré pulverco-subtili opacata, venosa ; foliola obovato- 
elliptica, retusa, refleca, medium majus modo subsesquiunciale et petiolo 
communi feré triplo longius: stipulis binis minutissemis villosis deciduis. 
Racemi terminales, erecti, multiflori, nunc feré subpedales, infra subfoliosi, 
indé nudi, pedunculo communi tereti Januginoso, pedicellis flore brevioribus, 
prope calycem eS bracteolis 2 minutis opposites decurrentibus. Cal. lanu- 
inosus, profundits bifidus, segmento supremo bidentato-truncato, imo trifido 
Tabulis lanceolatis, medio longiore cuspidato distantiore, lateralibus ascendenti- 
bus. Cor. saturate roseo-purpurea magnitudine feré Ononis rotundifolic: 
vexillum ascendens, emarginato-rotundum, 3-4-plo longius calyce, ocello 
albo et flavo ad basin notatum: alee a@quilongee sti, 2-3-plo angustiores, 
supra carinam convergentes: carina parim brevior, discreté dipetala, incurvo- 
assurgens, petalis conniventibus supra, im margine ima ad flecuram brevi 
lobulo subauriculatis. Fil. pro duobus tertiis partibus monadelphicé connata. 
Germ. sessile, subcylindricum, rectum, glabrato-viride, polyspermum: stylus 
und tertid parte brevior, albus, setaceus, subarrectus: stigma punctum, obtus 
sum, obsolete 2-fidum. 
ali- 
The first mention of this plant is in the splendid work 
destined to record the rare plants cultivated in the garden 
of La Malmaison, edited by Monsieur Ventenat; one of the 
many costly books which the governments of France, and 
of some parts of Germany, have enabled their artists and 
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