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Prodr. ii. 126 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 181 ; Wt. Ic. t. 885 ; Benth. in 

 Jmim. ii. 478. 0. OTalifolia, WaU. Cat. 5411. 0. Wightianai 



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' Nelghibis up to 4000 ft; 

 A spreading shrub with stems ^1 foot long, densely shortly grey-do-vmy. ^^^^^ 

 subsessile, rarely an inch long, dark green, always very obtnse, and densely clothed 

 iprith grey or when young with yellow-brown pubescence ; stipules passing suddenly 

 into a narrow wing from the spreading deltoid points, Baeemes sparse, 1-4-flowerea. 

 Bracts small, persistent, ovate ; bracteoles small, lanceolate, inserted above the base. 

 Calj/x l-l in., densely silky. Corolla yellow, not exserted. Pod oblong, 1-1:^ in. long, 



glabrous, 20-30-8eeded. 



Ykjs., 1. scahrella; stems stronger and more ascending, flowers rather larger, 

 pod more distinctly stalked. 0. scabrella, W. & A. Prodr. 181.— Nilghibis and 

 Cktxon. 



Var. 2. Wightiana ; stems snberect much more robust than in the type, leaves 

 thinner more silky larger reaching 2-3 in. long l|-2 in. broad, corolla and calyx |-| iu. 

 long, pod 1^2 in. long, 30-40-seeded. C. Wightiana, Grah, in Wall. Cat, 5358, A; 

 W, ^' A. Prodr, 181. — Nilghibis and Ceylon up to 6000 ft. 



Sect. IV. Calycince, Benth. Copiously-branched diflFuse annuals or low 

 shrubs with slender branches. Leaves simple, more or less hairy, stipules or 

 small not decurrent. Racemes all terminal or a few also lateral. Pod^ 

 glabrous or pubescent, exserted or included. 





• Pod decidedly exserted from the calyx. 



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19. C. pusilla, Heyne ; BC. Prodr. ii. 128 ; annual, densely silky, stipules 



0, leaves linear very small, racemes terminal and lateral laxly 3-^flowered, 

 bracts minute lanceolate, pod silky sessile tv^ce the calyx. Wall. Cat. 5396 ; W* 



4- A. Prodr. 189, 



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Western PENiNStn.i; Bombay to Courtallum. 



Stems under half a foot high, with copious ascending branches clothed with a3 

 pressed brown silky hairs. Leaves svhsessne, firm, obtuse, ^i-f in. long, densely silky 



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Baeemes very copious, short-stalked, ^1 in. long. Calyx campanulate, silky ^ in. deep; 

 teeth deep, all linear. Corolla jqUow , scarce exserted, Pod J in. long, thinly silkji 

 4-8-seeded. — The smallest of all the species. . , . 



20. C. hirta, WtVd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 130 ; annual, finely hairy, stipules 0, 

 leaves small linear obtuse, racemes capitate 2-4-flowered, bracts lanceolate folia- 

 ceous, pod glabrous sessile twice calyx. Mart, in Munch. Benks. 6t.F.] W.8f A. 

 J^odr. 182 ; Benth. in Hook Land. Joum. ii. 567. 0. chinensis, Eoxb. Fl. Ind* 

 iii. 268 ; Wall. Cat. 5385, nan Linn. 0. pilosa, Roxb. in E. I. C 

 Rottl. Nova Act. 1808. 



Dekkax, near Hydrabad. . , 



A diffuso annual with slender branches, thinly clothed with short spreading hairs- 

 Leaves short-stalked i-^ in., moderately close, rounded at the base. Flowers 

 crowded at the end of leafy branches ; pedicels very short. Calyx \ in,, densely silky J 

 teeth long, all linear, acuminate. Corolla scarce exserted. Pod oblong, 15-20-seeded. 

 — Differs from chinensis by its small obtuse leaves and much shorter calyx. 



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21. C. mysorensls, Both ; DC. Prodr. ii. 126 ; annual, densely silky, sti- 



{)ules linear persistent, leaves linear-oblong obtuse, iracemes 1«m^ and lateral 

 axly 6-9-flowered, bracts lanceolate foliaceous, pod subsessile glabrous twice the 

 calyx. Wall. Cat. 5361 ; W. Sr A. Prodr. 182. 0. stipulacei, iZoxJ. Fl. Lnd. iii. 

 264. C. hirsuta, Roxh. in E. L C. Mm.^ 1 1596. p^;^^.:?^; ^ oi ; 



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