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P L A T E DCXLVIII.
C R O T O L A R I A SALTI A N A.
Salt's Crotolaria.
CLASS XVn. ORDER IV.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
LEGUMEN turgidum, ' inflatutDj pedicellatum :
filamenta connata, cum fissura dorsali.
POD turgid, inflated, pedicelled. Chives conjoined,
with a dorsal fissure.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
CKOTOLAKIA frutescens, floribus spicatis : ramis
teretibus, tomentosis : foliis ternatis :
foliolis ovatis, tomentosis : petiolis uncialibus.
SHKDBBY Crotalaria. Flowers grow in spikes :
branches are round and downy. Leaves ternate.
Leaflets ovate and downy. Petioles an
inch long.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The erapalement.
2. The standard.
3. The under-side of the same.
4. One of (he wings.
5. The keel.
6. The chives.
7. Seed-bud and pointal.
T H I S nondescript .pedes of Crotolaria was introduced by Mr. Salt last April (1811) from the distant
region of Abyssinia. We hav8 therefore named it after him, in compliment to that ardour, which in
the pursuit of natural history has twice impelled him to undertake a journey to so remote a country.
Our figure represents a fine specimen communicated to us by A. B. Lambert, e.g., wl>o raised it
from seed in his hot-stove at Boyton, and where it flowered last summer (1811) for the first time in this
country.
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