Crotalaria, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 279 
ly, about three quarters of an inch long. Seed several, reni- 
form, smooth, pale-coloured. 
32. C. elliptica. Roxb. 
Shrubby, spreading. Leaves ternate ; leaflets elliptic. Sti- 
pules and bractes conic-ovate, acute, Legume sessile, oval, 
villous, two-seeded. 
A native of China, from thence introduced into the Botanic 
garden, where it flowers in August and September. The sced 
ripens in two or three months afterwards, 
_ Stem scarcely any, but several, slender ligneous branches 
spreading out on each side, a little above the surface of the | 
earth ; these and the young shoots are round, and hairy, and 
their length from one to two feet. Leaves ternate. Leaflets 
elliptic, obtuse, entire,a little hairy underneath, from an inch, 
to an inch and a half long, and rather more than half of that 
in breadth. Stipules acute, recurvate, rigid, smooth above, 
hairy underneath. Racemes terminal, becoming lateral ; 
about two inches long, many-flowered, hairy. Flowers small, 
yellow, solitary. Bractes small, ovate, acuminate, hairy, re- 
curvate; those of the pedicels solitary, those of the calyx two, 
Calyx hairy, five-toothed, Filaments united into one body, 
with the fissure ending in a circular opening at the base. An- 
thers alternately linear and round as in the genus. Legume 
sessile, oval, villous, two-seeded. Seeds reniform, smooth, 
33. C. guinquefolia. Willd. iii. 988. 
Annual, erect. Leaves quinate. 
Wellia-tandale-cotti, Rheed. Mal. ix. t, 28. 
Teling. Neroo-galli-geetsa. 
A most elegant, large, annual species, growing chiefly i in 
the wet rice fields. Flowers during the rainy season. 
Stem annual, erect, ramous, striated, piped, from three to 
four feethigh. Branches stem-like. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
digitate. Leaflets sessile, lanceolate, emarginate with a bris- 
tle in the cleft ; above smooth, below a little hairy, from one 
