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CROTALARIA incana. 
Hoary Crotalaria. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 347. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacez. Legum. l-loc. 2 valy. Frutices aut herb; fol. simplicia 
Aut ternata aut rarits digitata; stipule nunc subnulle nunc conspicuee imo 
petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte.—=PaPiLionAceE®. Brown in app. to 
Flind. voy. 2, 552. 
CROLVALARIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 128. 
©. incana, foliis ternatis ovalibus subtus villosis, racemis spiciformibus, 
carina margine tomentosa, leguminibus sessilibus hirsutis. Hort. Kew. 
3. 20. 
Crotalaria incana. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1005. Jacq. obs. 4. 4. t. 82. Cavan. 
ic. 4. 11. . 322. Willd. sp..pl. 8. 985. enum. 2.748. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
4. 274. ' 4 
Crotolaria trifolia. Riv. tetrapet. 22. 
Subbipedalis, pubescens. Folia ternata, tenera ; foliola ovalia aut obo- 
vala, fine obtuso mucronato, supra virentia, infra villoso-canescentia, unciam 
aliquantim exsuperantia : petiolus communis villoso-albicans, vin longior 
Soliolis ; petioluli hirsutiores, breves: stipule: setacee, villose, breves, caduce. 
Racemi terminales, simplices, spicati, multiflori, semipedales, erecti; pedi- 
celli breves, cum flore nutantes, villosi. Cal. villosus. Cor. flava, lineato- 
pariegate acuta; vex. carinalum, longius alis: carine petala margine albo 
anata. 
We have ascertained by a sample in the Banksian Her- 
barium, collated with that in the Linnean, that our plant 
belongs to the Crorataria incana of Linnaeus; but have 
strong doubts of its being of the same species with the 
plants adduced for synonyms from the works of Sloane and 
Swartz; which we have in consequence omitted in the 
present article. 
The drawing was taken from a specimen that flowered in 
the hothouse at Spofforth, and was kindly sent to us by Mr. 
Herbert. ‘The species is stated in the Hortus Kewensis to 
be annual and native of the West Indies. Mr. Herbert in- 
forms us that he had the seed of it from the East Indies, 
and that the plant is perennial. Cultivated by the Duchess 
of Beaufort in 1714. — 
About two feet high, furred. Leaves ternate, tender; 
leaflets oval and obovate, rounded or blunted at the end 
