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four genera as they come, my great object, of course, being to make 

 identification as easy as possible. 



Note. — As before, D. stands for D.ilzell and Gibson's Bombay Flora, 

 H. for Hooker's Indian Flora; native names are in italics, and 

 should mention with regard to this part of it, that I have now the 

 advantage of referring to Dr. Dymook's "Marathi Names of 

 Plants," which I was unable to do when I wrote my lust paper. 



1. Crotalaria. Leaves (in species here given) simple ; flowers 

 yellow (except No. 5 below) ; standard with a short claw ; pod straight, 

 turgid or inflated. 



(1) C. jilipes. A small, prostrate, slender-stemmed plant with, 

 long hairs ; leaves oblique, cordate, oblong ; peduncles very slender- 

 bearing one or two flowers ; pod oblong, much inflated, 8 to 10 -seed, 

 ed. Deccan and Konkan common. 



Note. — There is another small and common prostrate plant very 

 like this, and growing in similar situations; 



Heylandia latebrosa. The most obvious difference is that that has 

 solitary and subsessile flowers in the axils, and an ovate pod with one 

 or two seeds. 



(2) 0. retusa. A stout undershrub, branched, nearly smooth • 

 leaves oblong, broader above ; flowers large and handsome, veined 

 red, in long racemes; pod linear, oblong; seeds 15 to 20. Gkdgri* 

 Konkan, Guzerat and Gfhauts, common. 



Note. — This and the next two have a general resemblance to the 

 English broom. 



(8) C. sericea. Much like the last, but with angled stem and 

 large leafy stipules and bracts. Common about Bombay. 



(4) C. Leschenaultil. A tall and very handsome shrub; leaves 

 narrow, obovate, silky beneath ; racemes and flowers large ; pod like 

 the two last. Dingala. Common at Matheran and on the Ghauts. 



(5) C. verrucosa. Stout herbaceous, stems and branches 4-sided 

 and winged ; leaves broad, ovate, narrow at the base ; stipules half- 

 moon shape ; flowers pale blue ; pods nearly cylindric, pale brown . 

 Tirat. Very common on the sandy sea shore. 



(6) C. juncea. A tall ei'ect shrub; leaves linear or oblong, silky; 

 racemes very long; calyx covered with rusty hairs; pod sessile 

 oblong, broader upwards. Santag, Commonly cultivated for the 

 fibre, and sometimes called sun-hemp. 



Note. — There are altogether 21 species of this genus in W. India, 

 three of which have 3-foliate and one 5-foliate leaves. 



