68 I*. LEGUMiNOS-E. (J. Or. Baker.) ICrotalaria. 



Stems under a foot long, slender, flexuose, much branched, densely clothed with 

 short spreading yellow-brown silky hairs. Leaves nearly sessile, very obtnse, mem- 

 branous, pale, glaucous below, equal at the base, |-1 in. long. Peduncles arcuate, 

 densely silky, usually 2-3 times the leaves, sometimes leafy below; pedicels cernuous, 

 lower as long as the calyx. Calyx ^ in., densely silky ; teeth linear, very long. 

 Corolla yellowish, not exserted. Fod short- stalked, \ in. long. 



11. C. ferrugfinea, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5398; finely silky or shaggy, 

 stipules laaceolate spreading, leaves obovate-oblong, racemes laxly 2-8-flowered, 

 bracts small linear, corolla middle-sized, pod linear-oblong glabrous 20-30- 

 seeded. Benth, in Hook. Lond, Joum, ii, 476. C. canescens, Wall. Cat. 5415. 

 C. crasaifolia. Ram. in Wall. Cat. 5416. 0. obliqua, Wall. Cat. 5388. 0. 

 leioloba, JBartL Ind. Sem. Hmi;. GoU. 1837 ; Linncea xii. Littb. 80. 0. pilosis- 

 BimsLf Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 327- 



NiPAX to Assam, ascending to 5-6000 ft, ; Ava, Martaban, Cetlok. — Distkib. 

 Java, Philippines, Formosa. 



More robust than all the preceding. Branches in the type finely silky. Leaves 

 short-stalked, moderately thick, pale beneath, obtuse, equal-sided, 1-2 in. long ; stipules 

 persistent, foliaceous, often defiexed. Peduncles usually 2-3 times the leaves ; racemes 

 much elongated; bracts persistent, spreading or deflexed. Calyx |-^ in,, shortly 

 silky ; teeth long, upper lanceolate, lower linear. Corolla not distinctly exserted 

 Pod short-stalked, 1-1;^ in. long. 



Var. 3. pilosissima^ Benth. MSS. ; leaves and fiowers larger, calyx and branches 

 densely clothed with longer bright yellow-brown silky hairs. — Khasia ; 3-5000 ft., 

 Hook.fil.^ Thomson. 



Wall Cat. 5390 ; finely silky, stiDules small 



Lond, 



iblong oblique, racemes 

 , pod linear-oblong j 

 '6. 0. disticha, Zoll 



Hook 



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Brxgai. to Ata and Tekasserim. — Distrtb. Java, Philippines. 

 Sterna 



Leaver nearly sessile, obtuse, glaucous-green, membranous, thinly silky, \-\\ in. long, 



Peduncles equalling 

 i-^ in., densely silkj 

 , i-| in. long. 



Corolla not exserted. Poi 





13. C. evolvuloldes, Wight in Wall Cat. 5410 ; finely silky, stipules 



linear minute, leaves round-oblong obtuse slightly obliquoj racemes 3-8 flowered, 



tracts minute lanceolate, corolla small, pod oblong finely downy 8-10-seeded. 



W. 4- A. Prodr. 188 {ej:cl syn.)) Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jaum. ii. 477. 0, 

 hirsuta, Wall Cat. 5413 A.C. 



Tropical region, Nilghibis and Ceylon. 



Stems 1-2 feet long, copiously branched, clothed with fine short spreading hairs. 

 Leaves short-stalked, i-1 in. long, moderately firm in texture, always obtuse. Peduncles 

 equalling or much exceeding the leaves ; pedicels cernuous, exceeding the bracts, 

 shorter than the calyx. Calyx ^ in., long densely pubescent; teeth long, linear. Co^ 

 roUa yellow, slightly exserted. Pod short-stalked i-| in. long.— The plant figured 

 under this name in Wight's Icones t. 31 from CourtaUum has much larger flowers and 

 is probably a distinct undescribed species. : - 



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14. C- hirsuta, Willd. Sp. Pi m. 978 ; finely silky, stipules linear mi- 

 nute, leaves ovate acute slightly obliqixeV racemes 2-^flowered, bracts lanceolate 

 minute, corolla middle-sized, pod oblong finely downy S-lO-seeded. Boxh. Fl 

 Jnd. ii. 270 J WaU. Cat 5413 ^; DC. Prodr. ii. 126; W. & A. Prodr, 18* 







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