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1, C- Burbla, Hamilt, in Wall. Cat. 5386 ; Benth. in Hook. Lond, Joum, 

 ii. 474 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 54. 



SciNDE and Punjab, in sandy plains, ascending to 4000 ft. Cambay, in the desert 

 region, Dalzell. — Distrib. Afghanistan and Beloochistan. 



A low undershrub, with very numerous stiff erecto-patent branches, clothed witli 

 Une pale tomentum. Spines none. Leaves scattered, deciduous, subsessile, oblong or 

 lanceolate, rigid, pale green, silky, \-\^ in. long; stipules 0. Flowers 6-12, in 

 elongated terminal racemes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate, very short. Calyx densely silky, 

 1- j in. ; teeth long, lanceolate. Corolla yellow, scarce exserted. Fad oblong, 3-4- 

 seeded, rather longer than calyx. 



Sect. II. Difiusae, BmtL Copiously-branched herbs with flexuose trailing 

 stems. Leaves close, simple. Stipules or small, not decm-rent. Racemes all 

 lateral, leaf-opposed, usually reduced to few flowers or one only. Pods glabrous 

 or downy. 



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2. C. biflora, Linn. ; pod sulssrlobose finely silky flexible 12-20-seeded. 

 DC. Pro^r. ii. 127 ; W. 8f A. Pi-odr. 190. Astragalus biflorus, Zinn. Mant 

 273. C. nummularia, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1 



Proclr. ii. 129 ; Wall. Cat. 5417 (ex parte). 0. hirta, lii^h Nov. Sp. 339. 0. 

 Rothiana. DC. Prodr. ii. 127. 0. Rothii. 



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Spreng. Syst/vi. 237. Oicer num- 



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Plains of the PENiNStJlA and Ceylon. — Disteib. Java. 



A silky trailing annual, with stems 1-1^ ft. long. Leaves close, subsessile, 

 densely silky, orate or roundish, -^1 in. long, obtuse, mucronate ; stipules minute, 

 usually 0.- Pedicels 2-^ times leaves, 1 or closely 2-flowered. Calyx ^ in., densely 

 silky; teeth long, upper lanceolate, lower linear. Corolla yellow, scarcely exserted 

 Pod compressible, ;|-^ in, long, short- stalked. 



, 3. C. globosa, IF* 4" A. Prodr. 190; pod subglobose finely silky bar* 

 2-4 seeded. Benth. in Hook.Lond. Joum.ii. 476. 0. erlobulosa, Wiaht in Wo^ 

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CARif A.TIC, Dindygol hills and Courtallum, Wight, G. Thomson. 



Habit, vestiture, leaves, infioresence, calyx and corolla just as in C. biflora^ tut 

 pod smaller, not compressible, glabrescent before splitting, with seeds larger and much 

 fewer. 



4. C. filipes, Benth. in Hook. Land. Joum. ii. 475 ; finely silky, stipules 

 0, leaves cordate-oblong oblique, pediincles thread-like 1-3-flowered, bracts and 

 corolla very minute, pod oblong glabrous 8-10-seeded. Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomh' 

 Flora f 5G. 



/ Plains of the west side of the Westei^n Peninsula ; Dekkan, Edgeworth. 



Stems very slender, ^-1 ft., clothed with fine spreading deciduous silky hairs* 

 Leaves pale, rigid, prominently veined, subsessile, obtuse, much more rounded on the 

 lower side. Peduncles copious, rigid, 3-6 times the leaves, glabrous ; flowers dis- 

 tant if more than one; bracts persistent, reflexed. Calyx ^ in. long, finely silky; 

 teeth long, all lanceolate. Corolla yuUow, exserted ; standard erect, veined, roun4 

 ^ in, broad. Pod short-e talked, \ in. long. 



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filiformis. Wall 



ffistent, leaves oblong, peduncles 1-2-flowered, bracts linear very minute, corolla 

 very small, pod linear-oblong glabrous 12-16-8eeded. Benth. in Hook. Loi^* 

 Joum. ii. 475, 



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" Stems slender, copiously branched, thinly silky when young, ieam'sliort-stalkei 

 membranous, nale. subacute. 1-2 in. 



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