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CROTALARIA tenuifolia. 
’ Narrow-leaved Crotalaria. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosx. Tribus Lotece Dec. 
CROTALARIA. Supra, vol. 2. fol. 128. 
§. 1. Foliis simplicibus. — 
* Stipulis non decurrentibus, interdum nullis, floribus racemosis, racemis 
terminalibus aut oppositifoliis. 
©. tenuifolia (Roxb.); foliis linearibus acutis sericeo-pubescentibus, caule 
virgato simplici, racemo laxo elongato terminali, calycibus oyariisque 
sericeis. Dec. prodr. 2. 126. ed 
Rami angulati, dense tomentosi. Stipulee minima, subulate, decidue. 
Folia simplicia, lineari-oblonga, breviter petiolata, acutiuscula, supra dense 
sericea, subtis villosa. Racemi terminales, nunc 1} pedem longi, laxi, 
multiflori. Flores distantes, nunc erecti, nunc penduli resupinati, pedunculis 
post anthesin retortis. Calyx dense ferrugineo-tomentosus, corolla duplo 
brevior, alte partitus, laciniis inferioribus apice coherentibus. Corolla 
magna, lutea, vexillo cordato acuto, dorso ferrugineo. Legumen ventricosum, 
oblongum, sericeo-ferrugineum, polyspermum, seminibus parvis funiculo longo 
affixis. 
Pepe eo ee ES 
We are glad to have an opportunity of presenting the 
public with an authentic figure of this species of Crota- 
laria; because it enables us to indicate the differences which 
exist between it and C. fenestrata, a nearly allied plant, 
with which M. de Candolle has been led. to suspect its 
identity. 
If the figure now published be compared with that of 
C. fenestrata, in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 1933, it will 
be seen that the outline of the leaves of the two species is 
essentially different, and that the subject of this article 
has a vexillum of a brown colour behind; while, on the 
contrary, that of C. fenestrata is of the same colour on both 
sides. To which we may add, that C. tenuifolia is a far 
more virgate plant, with a suffrutescent stem. 
