The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 10 [of 10]

Volume 10 — PLATE DCXLVIII. CROTOLARIA SALTIANA. Salt’s Crotolaria.

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CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Legumen turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum: filamenta connata, cum fissura dorsali.

Pod turgid, inflated, pedicelled. Chives conjoined, with a dorsal fissure.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Crotolaria frutescens, floribus spicatis: ramis teretibus, tomentosis: foliis ternatis: foliolis ovatis, tomentosis: petiolis uncialibus.

Shrubby Crotalaria. Flowers grow in spikes: branches are round and downy. Leaves ternate. Leaflets ovate and downy. Petioles an inch long.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The empalement. 2. The standard. 3. The under-side of the same. 4. One of the wings. 5. The keel. 6. The chives. 7. Seed-bud and pointal.

This nondescript species of Crotolaria was introduced by Mr. Salt last April (1811) from the distant region of Abyssinia. We have 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, esq., who 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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