Crotalaria. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 275 
minal, large. Bractes numerous, subulate, recurved, clam- 
my. Legumes sessile, villous, one-seeded. 
From planis two years old, reared in the Botanic garden 
from seed received from Dr. Jobn at Tranquebar, the accom- 
panying drawing and this description are taken. Flowering 
time, in Bengal, the cold season; seed ripensin March. 
Trunk short. - Branches numerous, spreading in every 
direction, round, clothed with much soft hair, Branchlets, 
immediately under the panicle generally destitute of leaves, 
but garnished with many fasciculi of the clammy, stipulary 
leaflets; whole height of the plant from two to four feet, 
‘spreading to a considerably greater extent, Leaves simple, 
sub-sessile, cuneate, hairy like the young shoots, Stipules i in 
axillary fascicles, subulate, recurved ; margin revolute; upper 
surface clammy. Panicles terminal, large, from one to two 
feet long, composed of simple, expanding racemes, Bracies 
- Jike the stipules. lowers large, yellow, smelling rather 
offensively. Banner, two callosities at the base, as in Doli- 
chos, downy on the back. Germ one or two-seeded, Legumes 
sessile, oval, downy, about as long as the long, slender-acute 
divisions of the calyx, generally one-seeded, 
SECT. II. Leaves compound. 
26. C. laburnifolia, Willd, iii, 982. | 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves ternate; leaflets obovate, smooth, 
Stipules none. Racemes terminal, Legumes pedicelled, club- 
bed, many-seeded, 
Nella-tandale-cotti, Rheed, Mal. ix, t, 27. 
Beng, Munna. 
_ Teling. Munna or Pedda-galli-geetsa, 
C. arborescens, Burm, Zeyl, t. 25. 
An elegant, large shrubby, broom-like species; common 
on the southern par of the coast. Flowers most part of the 
year. : 
_ Stem erect, ay Branches | eS aocending.5: ahs 
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