274 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Crotalaria. 
21. C. alata. Roxb. 
Herbaceous ; branches two-winged. Leaves simple, ses- 
sile, obliquely round-ovate, downy. Racemes terminal, be- 
coming lateral. Legume short-pedicelled,, linear-oblong, 
smooth, 
Found in Hindoostan by Captain Hardwicke in flower in 
July and August. 
22. C. semperflorens, Willd. iii, 978. 
Shrubby, erect, ramous, smooth, Leaves ovate ; stipules 
falcate, reflexed. Racemes terminal, becoming lateral. Brac- 
tes subulate, one-flowered. Legume sessile, clavate. 
A native of Sumatra. Flowering in the cold season, in the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, The flowers are of a middling 
size, and bright yellow. Is not far removed from verrucosa. 
23. C. bialata. R. 
Perennial, spreading ; branches two-winged. Leaves sub- 
sessile, from lanceolar to oblong. Peduncles lateral, long, 
and smooth, : 
A native of Silhet. In the Botanic garden it grows to bea 
pretty large bushy spreading shrub, with little or no stem, 
but many sub-ligneous, naked, spreading branches, which 
divide into ascending, broad-winged, villous branchlets. 
Flowers and ripens its seed during the rainy and cool seasons. 
| 24, C. angulosa, Lamarck’s Encyel., ii, 196, 
Annual, Stem and branches from three to five-sided. 
Leaves sub-sessile, base sub-ovate, much attenuated, and 
curled. Stipules semi-cordate, transverse. Racemes lateral. 
A native of the Mauritius, 
25. C. paniculata, Willd. iii. 980, 
Shrubby, very ramous and hairy, Leaves simple, cune- 
ate, sub-sessile, Stipules subulate, recurved. Panicles ter- 
