264 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Crotalaria. 
Leaves linear, lanceolate, acute. Stipules minute, filiform, 
Racemes terminal, drooping. Legume sessile, clavate, hairy. 
- From Nepal Dr. Buchanan sent the seed to this garden in 
1802, where the plants grow well, and generally blossom dur- 
ing the hot season ; and ripen their seed two months after. 
Stem erect, shrubby, with many expanding, drooping, al- 
ternate branches; young shoots villous, and four-cornered, 
whole height of the plants four or five feet, and lasting from 
two to four years. Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, limear-lan- 
ceolate, acute, slightly villous, entire, from two to six 
inches long, and less than an inch broad. Stipues filiform, 
minute, villous. acemes terminal, solitary, drooping, few- 
flowered. Flowers remote, drooping, large, yellow. Bractes 
of the pedicel ovate, acute, solitary, one-flowered, those of the 
calyx, onthe opposite sides of its base, and smaller than those 
of the pedicel. Calyz bilabiate ; the upper lip bipartile, the — 
under one three-cleft, but the margins of the segments are 
united, requiring force to separate them, otherwise it remains 
entire. aes sessile, clavate, hairy, many-seeded, 
4. C, stipulacea, Roxb. 
Shrubby, erect, ramous, hairy, Leaves sessile, lanceolar. 
hairy. Stipules lanceolar, and conspicuously large. Racemes 
terminal. Bractes of both pedicel and calyx lanceolar. Le- 
gumes sub-sessile, oblong. 
_ A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds were sent by Mr. 
Heyne to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where the plants 
thrive well, blossom and ripen their seed during the cold sea- 
son. SEH Es : : 
Stem erect, ligneous, Branches erect; young parts very 
hairy ; height of the whole plant three or four feet. Leaves 
simple, scattered, sessile, lanceolate, entire, very hairy ; from 
one to two inches long, and from a quarter to half an inch 
broad. Stipules lanceolate, almost half as long as the leaves, 
and equally hairy. Flowers solitary, scattered, pretty large, 
yellow. Bractes lanceolate, hairy, one-flowered, three-fold 
