Crotalaria. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 269 
Qnrd. With dark-coloured flowers, black seed, and white 
eye. 
ard, sistas white flowers, white seed, and black eye. 
CROTALARLIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1172. 
Calyx five-parted. Keel beaked. Filaments connate, with 
a fissure on the back, which has a circular gape at the base. 
Anthers alternately sagittate, and sub-rotund. Legume 
eat ‘ : 
"SECT. I. (poem simple. 
1. C. juncea, Willd. iii. p. 974. Corom., pl. 2. N. 193. 
Annual, straight. Leaves sub-sessile, linear-lanceolate, 
hairy, rather obtuse, Racemes terminal, Legumes sessile; - 
club-shaped, many-seeded, 
Sans. Sana, See Asiat. Res. iv. p. 296. 
- Beng. Sun. 
Teling. Chanamoo. 
Cing. Henna, or Hane. 
Katou-tandale-cotti. Rheed. Mal. i ix, 2. 26, . 
See Philosophical Transactions of London, vol. Ixiv. P. 
99. 
An annual plant, very generally cultivated all over the 
southern parts of Asia for the fibres of its bark, which may be — 
called the Hemp of India, The time of flowering and _ripen- 
* ing its seed depend on the season it is sown; for in some parts 
it is raised during the rainy season, in others during the dry. 
Stem annual, straight, from four to eight feet high, or even 
- more, striated from the insertion of the leaves, a little downy, 
towards the top branchy, and, when the plant stands single, 
moreso, Leaves scattered, short-petioled, lanceolate, obtuse, 
with a small bristle-like point; both sides. covered with soft, — 
’ silver-coloured hairs, from two to six inches long, and from 
half an inch, to one and a half broad, | Stipules subulate, 
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