Crotalirlu l.K< -L'MIXOS.K 



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[C. tetrag-ona Buxb. Fl. !,/>/. id iT,;', (1832); leaves 

 lanceolate-linear, acuminate, 1-3 dm. 1. ; stipules miiiir 

 setaceous, or wanting ; ]mds tomentose-pubescent. Gri*' l>. i>. <->L 

 179 ; Wils. lor. cit. ; Jin/,: torn. cit. 78. 



St. Andrew-, Prior; ("1 onion Town, Roberts \ Silver Hill, 

 llo v;s ! l-'l. Jam. 5597. India to Java. 



tihnih, to 6 ft. high, brandies acutely tetragonal, when young pu : 

 cent. Leaves strigose-pubescenl on both or glabrescent. Racemes 



laxly 6-10-flowered, 1-5 dm. 1. or more. Bracts minute, linear. / 

 lemon-yellow. Calyx 2-lipped, segments very long, linear-lanceo: 

 densely brown-velvety, 2 cm. 1. or more. Corol uewhat longer than 



the calyx. Pod oblong, dark brown, ?> ' 5 cm. 1. 



[C. fulva Boxb. FL LL Hi. 266 (1832) ; leaves oblnii--l,- 

 late to oblanceolate (rarely elliptical), 6-8 '5 cm. 1.; stipules 

 wanting, or minute, setaceous; flowers paniculate; pods thinly 

 silky, enclosed within the calyx. Gr'twl). <>p. <-it. 17'.': IT//.--. 



lor. cit. : Jitik. tinn. r',1. 80. 



Bancroft*. St. Mary, McNeil ! Wilson ! Short-wood, 500 ft., Campi \ 

 Hope Mines, 800 ft. ; Hope Paver course, 600-700 ft. ; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 

 6243, 6825, 6943, 9037. E. Indies to Sumatra, naturalized in Seychelles 

 and Mauritius. 



Shrub 3-8 ft. 'high ; branches cylindrical, den-ely clothed with short 

 brown silky hairs. Leaves closely silky, 2-3 cm. br. Racemes compound, 

 in a terminal panicle. Bracts and bracteoles elliptical, cuspidate. Flo;- 

 fragrant. Cali/.r 5-partite, sericeous on the outside, 1-1-3 cm. 1. ; seg- 

 ments ovate, blunt. Pod globose-ellipsoidal, 2-seedeJ. 



2. C. retusa L. Sp. PL 715 (1753); leaves oblanceolate to 

 oblanceolate-oblong, apex retuse or rounded ; stipules very small. 

 awl-shaped or wanting; bracts awl-shaped; pods glabrous. Bot. 

 M<j. t. 2561 ; Mfu-f. Jam. /. L'39 ; Gri*el. <>p. dt. 172 : ir//x. loc. 

 rif.; J'xif,-. torn. cit. 75 : Url>. .%////. Ant. iv. 281. Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



Fls. in autumn ; common : Ifcicfadycn ; Dixtin ! >t. Mary, Ih JV 



! J.P. 615, 963, A/i/-m! King's House ground-, (.'umpbcll'. I'-utt 

 Bay; Annotto Bay ; Thompson ! Hope grounds, Harris I St. George, \Vatt ! 

 .Uz.s-.s Fustier ! Gordon Town, ]',,iU ! Kingston, I ' - ; I'ort 



Antonio, Mill.^iiifih. Fl. -Jam. 5709, 647-1, '.784, 791 7. Tropical and 



subtropical regi<- 



Annual, slirnhby, 1-3 ft. high, silky-puberulou- or ulal>rate. 

 glabrous on upper surface, tornentellous beneath, pellucid-dotted. .a. 1. 



land morel. L-2'5 (3'5) cm. br. /: many-flowered, long. J 



showy. ( J-lipfe<l, about half as long eorolla, 1-T5 em. 1.. 



sparingly puberulous ; segments triangular-lanceolate, Standum' with 

 purple lines inside, S"ine\vh;it brownish outside, t> ~2 em. 1. /'.'</ oblong, 

 blackish, 3- t cm. 1. 



[C. sericea lii::. o/*x. /-. L'<; (1789) (mn Burnt, f.) ; lea^ 



oblanceolate-oblong, nnn-mnulatc : sii})'iles seini-sa^it tate. ^.^sile, 

 ' llexed, jiciv-i-ii'iit : liracts ovate, t'oliaerous. persistent : pod 



