We have carefully compared this plant with specimens 
of Roxburgh’s C. tenuifolia sent from the Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, by Dr. Wallich, and we find them accord in 
every particular. 
A stove half-shrubby plant, flowering in July; but not 
remarkable for its beauty. 
Branches angular, closely covered with down. Stipules 
very small, subulate, deciduous. Leaves simple, linear- 
oblong, on short stalks, rather acute, covered with a close 
silkiness on the upper side, and with thick down on the 
under. Racemes terminal, sometimes a foot and half long, 
lax, many-flowered. Flowers distant, sometimes erect, 
sometimes pendulous and resupinate: their peduncles 
being twisted back after flowering. Calyx downy, ferru¬ 
ginous, twice as short as corolla, deeply 5-parted, the lower 
segments cohering at end. Corolla large, yellow, with a 
cordate, acute vexillum, brown at back. Pod ventricose, 
oblong, silky, ferruginous, many-seeded; the seeds attached 
by a long funiculus. 
A native of Coromandel, where it flowers from November 
to February. 
J. L. 
