266 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Crotalaria. 
Branches slender, erect, a little hairy when young. Leaves 
scattered, short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with a 
bristle, entire, both sides covered with a few silver-coloured 
hairs, about two inches long, and little more than half an 
inch broad. Siipu/es most minute, subulate. . Racemes ter- 
minal, long, many-flowered. Bractes very minute, subulate. 
Flowers middle-sized, yellow. Legumes sessile, linear-ob- 
Jong, smooth, from six to ten-seeded, 
Note. It differs from C. sericea in having very minute, 
awled stipules and bractes, 
7. C, linifolia, Willd. iii, 975. 
Perennial, erect, sericeous, Leaves sessile, narrow cunei- 
form, obtuse, hoary. Stipules none. Racemes terminal, Brac- 
tes small, one-flowered. Legume sessile, on of the ay 
from two to three-seeded. } 
A native of Hindoostan, as well as other parts of India. 
8. C. fulva, Roxb. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves lanceolar, sericeous when young. 
Stipules none, Racemes terminal, and from the exterior axills. 
Bractes ovate, recurved, those of the pedicel solitary, those of 
the calyx paired. Legume sessile, oval, hid in the sericeous, 
permanent calyx, two-seeded. 
_ A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 
seed to the Botanic garden where in two years the plants blos- 
somed in October and November, and ripened their seed in 
January. They were then stout, erect shrubs with a single, 
ligneous trunk, and many ascending branches, 
Bark of the young shoots clothed with much soft, short, 
white hair. Leaves simple, sub-sessile, lanceolate, entire, 
while young sericeous on both sides, from two to four 
inches long. Stipules none. Racemes terminal, and from the 
exterior sank: the whole forming large, elegant, sub-erect, 
sericeous panicles, bearing numerous, large, yellow flowers. 
Bractes of the petioles solitary, one-flowered, ovate, recurv- 
