Crotalaria glauca, Crotalaria laburnifolia.

Crotalaria glauca Willd. Leguminosae.

African tropics. The people of Madi eat its flowers, pods and leaves as spinach.

Crotalaria laburnifolia Linn.

Asiatic tropics. This is an upright, perennial plant, bearing short, black and light brown beans the size of soy beans. It is sometimes cultivated.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.