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CROTALARIA vitellina. 
Colville’s Crotalaria. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
__ Nat. ord. Lecuminos#. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
Papilionacea. Legum. 1-loc. a-valy.=PAPILIONACER. Brown in append. 
to Flind. voy. 2. 
CROTALARIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 123. 
: Div. Foliis ternatis. . 
C. vitellina, pubescens; foliis ternatis, exstipulatis, foliolis ovali-lanceolatis 
cutis duplo longioribus petiolo hirtids villoso, lateralibus pauld minori- 
bus: leguminibus pendulis. 
‘Tutex villosus, gracilis, flecuosé diffuscque ramosus. Fol. sparsa, di- 
Stantia, ternata, exstipulata? petiolo communi erecto, stricto, villoso-canes- 
Cente, subunciali, unisulco, foliolis ovali-oblongis, lanceolatis, plus minus 
Sesquiuncialibus, utringue acuminatis, supra nudiusculis v. ad venas tantim 
Pubentibus, infrd villosis pallentibus nervosis, lateralibus pauld minoribus, 
Pettolis propris brevissimis crassis hirsutis flexilibus (meris articulis ). Racemi 
terminales, solitarii, erecti, stricti, multiflori, 3-5-unciales, pedunculo vi- 
"enti cum pube fulvd, floribus lawids sparsis, deflexis, fulvo-flavicantibus 
"gitudine infra semuncialem, pedicellis duplo brevioribus calyce teretibus 
ccurvis bracted duplo breviore v. ultra lineari subulatd villosd deflexa subten- 
*8, unam v. et alicram minutam appressam altids in se gerentibus. Cal. 
Stescens, fulvo-villosus, + brevior corollé v. circa, ad } partes usque 5-fidus, 
}0-nervis, tubo brevi Suscescente, segmentis cequalibus lanceolato-attenuatis 
Uabiato-patentibus. Vex. cordato-orbiculatum, secis pedicellum reflecum, 
"Mucronatum, cum maculd violaced radiato-crinitd ad basin: ale vewillo 
“rinaque duplo angustiores, conniventes, lamind obcuncato-oblongé obtusis- 
es carina falcata, ventricosissima, pallida, acuminata, apice virescens. 
fil, Monadelphum, medio tenis 10-fidum, ungue tubuloso Jissura dorsali in 
ongum diviso: anth. flave, oblonge, erecte, d basi infixe. Germ. pedicel- 
“tum, viride, sericeum, oblongum, compressum, poly-(10?)-spermum; stylus 
ts longior germine, virens, subulatus, superné arrecto-infleaus, pro maxima ’ 
Parte @ latere interiore albo-barbatus: stigma penicillus erectus summitatem 
pitdatam styli terminans indeque stipitatum comparens. Legum. pedicella- 
UN, pallidwn, vix unciale, oblongum, tnflatum, appresse villosum, rigido- 
membranaceum, stylo persistente caudato-acuminatum: semina plura, 2-42; 
“ non vidimus adulta.) 
We are informed that this plant has been only lately in- 
‘voduced from the Brazils. We do not find it either in Sir 
%oseph Banks’s or in Mr. Lambert’s Herbariums; nor can 
_We reduce it to any published species within our research. 
The drawing was taken in the hothouse at the nursery 
of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the 
Plant flowers freely and produces seed. 
