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bracts minute, linear. Calyx |-1 in. long, densely brown-velvety ; teeth very long, 

 Lnear or lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla lemon-yellow, glabrous, little exserted. Pod 

 lf-2 in. long, densely persistently dark-brown and velvety, 12-20-seeded. 



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i 54. C. juncea, Xmn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 125; branches terete multisiilcate, 



stipules or minute suLulate, leaves linear or oblong- rather obtuse, racemes 

 I lateral and terminal not panicled, pod oblong sessile velvety twice the calyx. 



^■Mag. t. 490 ; Roxh, Cor. PI. t. 193 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 259 ; Wall. Cat. 5409 ; 

 I W. Sf A. Prodr. 185 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 54. 0. fenestrata, Bot. Mag. 



J. 1933. 0. benghalensis, Lamk.; DC. Prodr. ii. 125: Wall. Cat. 5395. G. 



tenuifolia, Poxb. Fl. Lid. ii. 263; DC. Pi-odr. ii. 126; Wall. Cat. 5368. 



'^ porrecta, Wall. Cat. 6363. C. \iminea, Wall. Cat. 5397 B. 0. sericea, 



mUd. not of Retz.—Rheede Sort. Mai. ix. t. 26. 



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Plains from the H1MA1.AYAS to Ceylon, but often planted for its fibre. Bibma, 

 jralhch; Pegu, McClelland.— Distuib. Malay isles, Australia. 



■ -A. stiff shrub ^several feet high, with slender virgate rigid thinly silky branches. 

 ■Wflm rather distant, firm, linear or oblong, usually 1^3 in., shining on both 

 sides with thin short brown silky hairs. Bacemcs loosely 12-20-flowered, reaching a 

 loot long; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^-| in. long, densely clothed with ferru- 

 gjnous velvety hairs ; teeth linear-lanceolate, very deep. Corolla bright yellow, 

 ■IV L^' ^^'^^^^y exserted. Pod l~\\ in. long, clothed with short-spreading persistent 

 «% hairs, 10-15-seeded. Yields Sun fibre. 



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0^- C. obtecta, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5372 ; branches terete, stipules 

 •yL ^^^*^ deciduous, leaves oblong obtuse, racemes terminal and lateral not 

 F^jcled, pod stalked densely velvety twice the calyx. W. ^ A. Prodr. 186 ; 

 «• t. 208 and 383. 0. tetrai?nTifl,. Wall. Cat. 5367 D. 



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0. tetragona, Wall Cat 5367 D. 



Western Peninsttijl; Niighiris and Cochin, ' :, / J\ 



ha' *^^^Jj with curved woody branches densely clothed with short brown silky 



S^^ '^^^^ short-stalked, coriaceous,* 2-4-in., both sides more or less silky, 

 den^^ ^^ther close, 12-20-flowered ; bracts minute, lanceolate. Calyx f-1 in., 

 gjn^^v "v^elvety, deeply bilabiate; teeth linear. C^r^/fo slightly exserted; standard 



Vfil ^^^ ^^^ ^^^* -^^^ ^^2 in. long, l6-12-Beeded, densely coated with dark brown 

 eimy piibescence. - . ^ -/m .i 



%jr^^ }' g^^brescens; branches and leaves glabrescent. C- glabrescens, ' J?e«^A. 



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closer' Ml ^^<*^»'^nsis, Tr«>A^ in TTrt/;. CbzJ. 5376; leaves ovate-oblong 

 cal^ + ^^^'' stipules 0, racemes panicled, bracts round cuspidate subdeciduous, 

 ' 'JVnJ 1 o*^ narrow, corolla exserted, pod many-seeded much exserted. W.^A. 



^ pJ^' . n^ 5 £erUh. in Hook. Land, Jaum. ii. 563. 0. candicans, W. Sf A. 

 * ^oar, 184. 



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Bliort J r,^®^<^t undershrub, copiously paniculately branched. Branches clothed with 

 roundfi/^^ ^rown silky hairs. Leaves short-petioled, obtuse, subcoriaceous, broadly 

 h^rs TV* ^^^' 2-^ in-, clothed on both sides with fine very short shining silky 

 1 nj ■ ^J°ta£t» fewer and more deciduous than in other panicled Eriocarpse. Calyx 

 lanc^l f ^' '^^"^^^y ^'1^7' deeply bilabiate; teeth narrow, acuminate, two upper 

 short-sS'^ "^^ I in. ;' standard rather pointed, densely silky on the back. Pod 

 ^^» iiearly glabrescent, 10-12-seeded, 1 in. long. ^ 



closelv ^i ^^^P«**>llata, Wight in Wall. Cat. 5377 ; leaves oblong acute 

 J" 8"iy, stipule 0,' MernSs paMcled, bracts round epreadiiig persistent, 



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