From the Coromandel plants above quoted we learn that it is a large climbing shrub, growing naturally on the Circar mountains in India, and is commonly cultivated all over that coast on account of the beauty and fragrance of its flowers, which open there during the rainy season. According to Linnæus it is also a native of the Island of Ceylon. No other species of the genus has yet been described. The plant is certainly a great acquisition to our collections, and was introduced from India by the late Lady Amelia Hume about the year 1805. Our specimen was communicated from the collection at Wormley Bury the end of last March.
PLATE DCI.
CROTALARIA PULCHRA.
Fair Crotalaria.
CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Stamens.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Legumen pedicellatum, turgidum. Filamenta connata cum figurâ dorsali.
Pod on a footstalk, swollen. Filaments united into a tube, which is cleft at the back.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.