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Crotalaria, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 277 
forming a large ramous shrub, of about six or seven feet in 
height; young shoots round, and clothed with fine, minute 
pitbeuach: Leaves ternate ; leaflets nearly equal, oblong, 
or broad-lanceolar, deep green on the upper side, paler under- 
neath ; from one and a half to two inches long, and less than 
one in breadth. Petioles slender, channelled, villous. Sti- 
pulessmall, with a broad base,and subulate apex, permanent. 
Racemes at first terminal, becoming lateral as the branches 
extend in length. Flowers numerous, pretty large, pale yel- 
low. Bractes of the pedicels solitary, one-flowered, small, 
lanceolate ; those of the calyx larger and inserted obliquely 
on its base, Calyzx of five equal divisions. Legume sessile, 
oblong, compressed, villous, about an inch long, and less 
than half that in breadth, Seeds few, obliquely-reniform. 
29. C. trifoliastrum, Willd. iii. 983. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves ternate ; leaflets cuneate, emargi- 
nate. Stipules filiform. Racemes terminal. Legumes sessile, 
smooth, four-seeded. ; 
C. Bengalensis, &c. Pluck, Alm. t. 169. a 5, 
-Teling. Naga-galli-geetsa. 
A pretty large, erect, shrubby species ; growing “about 
hedges, borders of cultivated land, &e. 
Root woody, yellow. Stems several, erect, woody, valid 
Branches twiggy, a little downy, the whole plant from one 
to four feet high, Leaves ternate. Leaflets broad-wedge- 
formed, or obcordate, emarginate with a bristle, above smooth, 
below with a few hairs, about an inch long, and half an inch 
broad. Petioles as long as the leaflets, sitanalilboik Stipules 
subulate. Racemes terminal, or branchlet-opposed, Jong, 
straight, many-flowered. Bractes of the pedicel subulate, 
-one-flowered ; of the calyx two, opposite, minute. Flowers 
yellow. Legume sessile, almost globular, size of a pea, 
smooth, two-seeded. 
