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C R O T A L A R I A P U L C H R A .
Fair Crotalarìa.
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C L A S S XVIL O R D E R IV.
DIADELPHU DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Stamens.
GENERIC CHA R A C T E R .
iiEGUMEN pedicellatum, turgiduin. FUamenta
connata cum figura dorsali.
Pod on a footstalk, swollen. Filaments united
into a tube, whicli is cleft at the back.
SPECIFIC CHA R A C T E R .
C h o t a l a h i a caule hirsuto; foliis stmplicibus,
elliptico-obovatis, integerrimis, sericeis, nitentibus;
leguminibus calyce tectis bracteisque
strigoso-sericeis.
CROTALARtA with a hairy stem; simple, elliptical,,
inversely oval, entire, silky, shining leaves:
the pods, the calyx which covers them, and.
the bracts, all shining with silky hairs.
RE F ERENCE TO THE P L A T E »
1. The empalement.
2. The standard.
3. One of the wings.
4. The keel.
5. Chives and pointai.
6. The seed-bud and pointai.
T h e choice collection of the late Lady Amelia Hume , at Wormley-bury, Herts, which before furnished
•as with the magnificent and unrivalled Pseonia papaveracea, has again produced us this new species of
Crotalaria, seeds of which were received by her ladyship, about the year 1807, from the East Indies,
under the name of C. pulcherrima, which we have abridged to pulchra, as we can hardly presume to say
which species is most beautiful before we have seen the whole genus, which, from the large catalogue
of Indian species by Dr. Roxburgh in his unpublished Indian Flora, a copy of which we have seen in
the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. (besides the forty-four species already published by Willdenow)
we think is not soon likely to happen.
Crotalaria pulchra is as yet in very few collections in this country, nor have we heard of its blossoming
id any other collection. The foreign specimens which we have seen with the Catalogue above mentioned
in the same collection have very large spreading bunches of flowers, and there can be no doubt but the
plants in this country, when a little stronger, will blossom with equal profusion. The plant is a native
of the Mysore country in the East Indies. We received the specimen in the middle of March last.
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