978. (bis) Govaxra LEPTOSTACHYA (D.C.:) branches 
glabrous : leaves ovate, acuminated, slighily cordate at 
the base, coarsely crenate-serrated, glabrous : racemes 
interrupted, axillary or in terminal panicles, elongat- 
ed, when young, pubescent, afterwards glabrous : 
flowers on very short pedicels, polygamous : disk 
glabrous, stellate ; accessory angles partly adnate to 
the calycine lobes, free and acuminated towards the 
two-horned apex: fruit glabrous, shortly winged,— 
W. and A. Prod. p. 166. 
An extensively straggling climbing shrub, found in 
great abundance along the road between Burliar and 
Coouoor, flowering towards the end of the year aod 
maturing its fruit during the hot season. We for- 
merly supposed this species confined to the Northern 
parts of the Peniusula, a point on which, it now ap- 
pears we were mistaken. 
979. Sormora cLaucA (Lesch.) shrubby : leaflets 
19-23, elliptical, mucronate, upper side glaucous and 
velvety, under villous : racemes terminal, crowded.— 
W. and A. Prod. p. 179. 
Very abundant on the Neilgherries, in flower at all 
seasons. A handsome flowering shrub from 6 to 12 
feet high, all the green parts except the upper sur- 
face of the leaves clothed with soft pubescence, flow- 
ers pale purple: seed ova:, polished very hard. 
980. CROTALARIA BARBATA (Graham :) herbace- 
ous, erect, densely clothed with dark brown hairs: 
stipules minute, inconspicuous : leaves oblong-lanceo- 
late, bluntish ; racemes terminal, elongated; flowers 
few, distant : calyx a little shorter than the corolla, 
deeply 5-cleft, very hairy ; segments slightly falcate : 
legume glabrous, stalked, 2-3 times the length of the 
calyx, obovoid : apex of the style and stigma woolly. 
— W. and A. Prod. p. 181. 
Not unfrequent in woods about Ootacamund, in 
moist soil on the bauks of streams. A large species 
conspicuous on account ofthe large size and bright 
yellow colour of its flowers. It is very readily distin- 
guished by the universal hairiness of all the young 
parts. Among bushes where it obtains support, it 
often attains the height of 10 or 12 feet. The whole 
plant turns black in drying. 
981. CROTALARIA Formosa (Graham!:) erect, 
branched, all over villous except the upper side of the 
leaves; stems terete: stipules minute, setaceous, 
reflexed : leaves cuneate, obovate, obtuse, glabrous 
on the upper side, villous beneath : bracteas lanceo- 
late, acuminated, lower ones without flowers: flowers 
in a dense raceme atthe extremities of the bracteated 
elongated branches: bracteoles setaceous, on the 
middle of the pedicels : calyx villoue ; legum oblong, 
borader upwards, glabrous, about 4 times the length 
of the calyx, manv-seeded.— W. and A. Prod. p. 186. 
Frequent in pasture grounds on the hill sides, flow- 
ering in greatest perfection during the months of Fe- 
bruary and March, It is an erect shrubby species, 
rising in favourable situations to the height of between 
4 and 5 feet, but is generally met with much lower. 
The leaves are a fine pea green colour above, clothed 
with white adpressed hairs beneath, flowers pale 
yellow streaked with brown. 
982. CROTALARIA WALLICHIANA (W. & A.:) her- 
baceous, erect, much branched, young branches irre- 
gularly and rather bluntly angled, with the racemes 
and under side of the leaves densely pubescent : sti- 
pules lunate, trausverse, recurved: leaves oval, gla- 
brous above, marked beneath with rather prominent 
nerves : racemes terminal and leaf-oppvsed, many- 
flowered : bracteas subulate, reflexed, small : pedi- 
cels elongated, longer than the calyx: bracteoles 
very minute, setaceous, about the middle of the 
pedicel: calyx smaller than the corolla, densely pu- 
bescent ; legume clavate-oblong, stalked, softly pu- 
bescent, many-seeded.— W. and A. Prod. p. 187. 
Abundant in woods and thickets about Ootaca- 
mund, preferring a rich moist soil, and in such situa- 
tions sometimes, with the support of bushes, rising 
to the height of 9 or 10 feet. Itis in flower at all 
seasons and is most conspicuous from the size and 
brilliancy of its flowers. Asa species it is perhaps 
too nearly allied to C. semperflorens. 
. 983. INDIGOFERA PEDICELLATA (W. E A.:) suffru- 
ticose, procumbent ; branches filiform, sprinkled with 
short adpressed browaish hairs; older parts terete; 
young parts compressed, thickly covered with brown 
glands: leaves petioled, palmately trifoliate ; leaflets 
cuneate-oblong; both sides with short whitish hairs 
mixed on the under side with glands: racemes al- 
most sessile, somewhat corymbiform, about the length 
of the leaves: pedicels slender, drooping, 2-3, longer 
than the calyx : calyx deeply 7-cleft (segments linear 
and acute), and with the vexillnm and keel hirsute 
and glanduliferous.— W. and A. Prod. p. 200. 
A low growing procumbent, plant frequent in dry 
pastures, where it is rendered conspicuous by its 
bright erimson flowers, which rise above the herbage 
among which it growsand which conceals the rest of 
the plant. 
981. Desmopium RUFESCENS (DC.:) shrubby : 
branches, racemes, bracteas, pedicels, stipules, peti. 
oles, and nerves of the leaves beneath, densely clothed 
with yellowish-brown tomentum : leaves trifoliolate ; 
leaflets oval, obtuse with a long bristle; upper side 
glabrous ; under densely clothed except the nerves 
with adpressed silky white hairs, especially when 
young : stipules caducous : racemes axillary and ter- 
minal, many-flowered : bracteas ovate, tapering to a 
long subulate point, before expansion densely imbri- 
cated, soon caducous : vexillum large, obcordate : 
ale as long as the broad keel: legume pubescent, 
about 7-jointed, straight on the one suture, notched 
into the middle on the other.—W. and A. Prod. 
p. 228. 
A low growing shrub, not unfrequent in moist 
ground among brushwood. On the road side below 
Coonoor on the Neilgherries, it orcurs in considera- 
ble abundance, and from that station, the specimen 
from which the drawing was taken was obtained. It 
is in greatest perfection during the rainy season, but 
may generally be met with in flower in the neigh- 
bourhood of springs, 
985. DrsMoDıum STRANGULATUMS (W. & A.) 
herbaceous, erect? : branches hairy, somewhat 3- 
angled, angles obtuse: leaves 3-foliolate, long peti- 
oled: leaflets pubescent on both sides, lateral ones 
obliquely ovate, terminal one rhomboid: stipules 
scariose, oblong-lanceolate, concave, glabrous: ra- 
cemes hairy, axillary and terminal, panicled, at first 
oblong and imbricated with large oblong concave 
hairy braeteas, afterwards becoming very long and 
lax, few-flowered: flowers 2-3 together, on long 
filiform pedicels: calyx campanulate, bilabiate ; 
upper lip emarginate, under deeply cleft: vexillum 
obovate; ale shorter than the keel: stamens mo- 
nadelphous from the base to the middle, diadelphous 
towards the apex: ovary stipitate, about 4-ovuled : 
legume 2-3 jointed (occasionally from abortion 
1 jointed), much contracted on one suture between the 
joints, even on the other, hispidly pubescent ; joints 
semi-oblong, nearly equal at both ends.— ۲۷۰ and A. 
Prod. p. 228. 
A slender erect growing herbaceous plant, frequent- 
ing dark shady woods. It is at once distinguished 
from all the other peninsular species of the genus, by 
its deep orange coloured flowers, and the deep divisi- 
ons of the legume between the seed. 
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