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CROTALARIA. retusa. 
Wedge-leaved East India Crotalaria, 
ei 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea. Legumen 1-loculare 2-valve. 
CROTALARIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 128, 
C. relusa, foliis simplicibus oblongis cuneiformibus retusis, racemo termi- 
nali. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 976. } 
Crotalaria retusa. ete sp. pl. 2.1004. Mill. dict. ed. 8.n.'7, Vahl symb. 
1.53. Hort. Kew. %. 18. ed. 2.-4. 272: Gertn. sem. 2. 316; t. 148. 
a, 2. Ay 
Tadibie-cotti Rheede mal. 9. 45. t. 25. 
~ Caulis sesquipedalis ultrague, teres, lanuginosus, wirens, striatus, rarits 
ramosus, laxé foliatus. Fol. undique sparsa, plurimim longiora intervallis, 
cuneato-oblonga, @ mucrone ‘recurvato retusa simulantia, subtis’ sericeo-albi- 
cantia, supra subglabra, pilis nonnullis presertim ad neryvum conspersas 
petiolus Aeonniehi brevissimus, crassus, subtiis lanuginosus, basi dilatatus ; 
stipula 2 minute, subulate, hirsuta, caduce, viz oculo nudo percipiende. 
Racemus: terminalis, pluriflorus, laxus, erectus, pedunc. breviores calyce, 
robusti appressé subvillosi, bracted ovato-subulata, rigidd, refractd, extis 
hirsuto-sericea ad basin, altisque 2 opposito-lateralibus minutis linearibus hir- 
sutis patentissimis sipie basin. Cal. bilabiato-campanulatus, subvillosus, 
segmentis 2 summis distantibus, mis 3 proximioribus. Vex. triplo longius 
Bea luteum, oblato-orbiculatum, subretusum, unciam latum, extis plicd 
elevala subvillosd per medium dorsi, erecto-reflecum, carina distans, glabrum, 
dorso fusco-venosum, et aliqud suffiusum rubedine, basi intis dentibus binis 
anticis, ungue brevi fornicato tomentoso; ale concolores, breviores, porrecte, 
arcté complectentes carinam, supra con’voluto-imbricantes, cuneato-obovate, 
late: car. pallida, clausa, ventricosa ventre trans alas prominente, acuminata 
acumine abruptiis arrecto obliquato, subtis lined lanceolaté tomentosa, supra 
ad basin marginibus erectis profundé alata. Fil. ad medium usque mona= 
delpha cum ‘fissurd dorsali, alterna firma v. extensa antheris parvis sub 
globoso-didymts ocyis demittentibus pollen, alterna breviora primd flaccida v, 
detensa antheris pluries longioribus lineari-attenuatis serins demittentibus pol- 
len. Germ. complanatum, ensiforme, glabrum, polyspermum: stylus filifor- 
mis, erectus, hirsutus: stig. glandula brevis apict truncato styli prefixa, 
oblique acuminata, pruinosa, pallida. Legum. oblongum, inflatum, cylin- 
dricum, mucronatum, polyspermum, ‘horizontale: sem, (ex Gertn. ) 15-ad 
20, 3-gono reniformia, uncinulato-rostellata. 
An annual ‘Species, native of the East Indies. Culti- 
vated at Chelsea by Miller, im 1731; the seeds having been 
sent him from Holland by Boerhaave. 
Stem herbaceous, toughly fibrous, a foot and half high 
or more, green, fluted, oftener unbranched than branched, 
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