Crotalaria, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 269 
and even there frequently wanting. Racemes terminal, twice 
as long as the pedicels. Flowers pretty large, yellow. Calyx 
hairy, nearly as long as the flower. Legume sessile, oval, 
smooth, shining, from fifteen to twenty-five-seeded. 
12. C. rubiginosa, Willd, iii. 973. 
Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves oval, and lanceolate, hairy. 
Stipules lanceolate. Racemes leaf-opposed. Bractes cordate. 
Legumes oval, hairy, few-seeded. 
Like the last described, it is a native of pasture lands; it 
has also a perennial root, with many slender diffuse, round, 
hairy, two-forked branches, 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, below rauae 
or ovate, above lanceolate, hairy, entire, very various in size. 
Stipules lanceolate, often reflexed. Racemes lateral or leaf- 
opposed, twice as long as the leaves, round, hairy, from four 
to eight-flowered. Bractes solitary, cordate, reflexed, short- 
er than the pedicels, one-flowered, Legumes sessile, oblong, 
hairy, eight-seeded, 
13. €. cespitosa. Roxb. 
Perennial, diffuse, cespitose, smooth, Leaves somewhat 
wedge-shaped. Stipules none, Racemes terminal. Bractes 
‘subulate. Legumes sessile, rhombic, Seeds from ten to 
twelve, is 
Teling. Nalla-geri-galli-geetsa, 
Is one of the most common all over the coast, grows on 
pasture ground ; is in flower all the year round. | 
| | Root perennial. Siem none. Branches numerous, spread- 
‘ ing close to the earth in every direction, with their extremi- 
ties ascending ; from one to two feet long, pretty smooth, 
Leaves alternate, inclining to be bifarious, very short-pe- 
tioled, linear-oblong or wedge-form, sericeous underneath ; 
= about three quarters of an inch long, and a quarter broad. 
€. Stipules none. Racemes terminal, very long, ascending. Brac-— 
tes of the pedicel single, awled, one-flowered ; those of the 
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