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5-cleft, shorter than the corolla ; margins of the segments scarcely recurved : 
vexillum silky : legume roundish-oblong, about the length of the calyx, sessile, 
silky, 1-seeded.— Heyne in Wall. ! L. n. 5378; Wight! cat. n. 663.——Tan- 
ore. 
: Dr Wight's specimens have almost all the leaves obtuse; the only one of 
Heyne’s that we have seen has them approaching to lanceolate, and acute ; 
but we do not think it necessary to separate them as distinct varieties. 
566. (16) C. subperfoliata (Wight :) suffruticose, erect, branched, covered 
all over with slightly shining silky hairs: stipules wanting: leaves elliptic- 
obovate, mucronate: racemes few-flowered (the lower flowers abortive), 
i and terminal, forming a kind of large leafy panicle: bracteas opposite, 
cordate-ovate, obtuse, shining and viscid on the upper surface: pedicels op- 
posite !, with the two bracteoles at the base of the calyx: calyx deeply 5-cleft ; 
the margins of the segments recurved: vexillum silky: ovary silky: style 
bearded towards the apex: legume clavate-oblong, long-stalked, pubescent, 
much longer than the calyx.— Wight ! in Wall.! L. n. 5377 ; cat. n. 662.— 
Dindygul hills, at the height of 2000 feet. 
567. (17) C. candicans (W. & A.:) suffruticose, erect, branched, covered 
all over (except the flowers) with white soft hairs, shaggy on the branches, 
close pressed and silky on the leaves: stipules inconspicuous or wanting: 
leaves simple, broad, oval, strongly nerved beneath: racemes terminal on 
shortish panicled axillary few-leaved branches: bracteas alternate, reniform, 
reflexed, viscous on the upper side: bracteoles close to the calyx, similar to 
the bracteas: calyx, vexillum, and ovary, covered with fulvous hairs : margins 
of the calyx-segments revolute, viscous.— Wight! cat. n. 661.———N eelgherries. 
568. (18) C. madurensis (Wight :) suffruticose, erect, branched, covered 
all over with fulvous soft hairs: stipules inconspicuous or wanting: leaves 
simple, ovate obtuse, UR nerved beneath: racemes numerous, te 
e 
on shortish M ei axillary few-leaved branches: bracteas alternate, ovate, 
pointed, reflexed at the apex, viscous on theirupper surface: bracteoles close 
to the calyx, similar to the bracteas: calyx, vexillum, and ovary silky with 
fulvous hairs ; calyx-segments deep, their margins revolute, viscous : legumes 
oblong, almost sessile, covered with a rusty pubescence, many-see ed.— 
Wight! in Wall. ! L. n. 5316 ; cat. n. 680. Madura hills. Neelgherries. 
569 (19) C. pulcherrima (Roxb.:) shrubby, erect, branched, covered all 
over with fulvous shining soft hairs: stipules none: leaves cuneate-obovate, 
obtuse : racemes elongated, terminal, on panicled axillary 1-2-leaved branch- 
es ; lower flowers abortive : bracteas alternate, cordate, acuminated, reflexed, 
upper surface viscous: bracteoles on the middle of the pedicels, similar to 
the bracteas: calyx deeply 5-cleft, shorter than the corolla, and the vexillum 
silky with fulvous hairs; segments oblong-lanceolate, the margins scarcely | 
recurved : legumes sessile, oblong, glabrous, hid in the permanent cal OWE: 
seeded.—Roab. fl. Ind. 3. p. 267 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1597 ; Sims bot. mag. 
t. 2027 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 125 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 236 ; Wall. ! L. n.5374 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 681.—C. pulehra, Andr. bot. rep. t. 601; DC.? prod. 2. p. 126; Spr. 
syst. 3. p. 238. Mysore. 
Dr Roxburgh sent seeds to Britain under the name C. pulcherrima : An- 
drews afterwards figured the plant raised from them in his Botanical Repost- 
. tory under that of C. pulchra, adding, ** we have abridged it to pulchra, as We | - 
can hardly presume to say which species is most beautiful before we have 
whole genus." It was then published in the Hortus Kewensis as C. pu i 
of Andrews, without Roxburgh’s synonym; and from that work authors have | 
introduced it into their systems as a distinet species. With regard to pe | 
Candolle's synonym we have some doubts, he attributing to his plant setate- — 
ous ipu and ovate bracteoles ; but he states his specimen to come from T 
the Caleutta garden, and there does not appear to be any with a similar name = 
cultivated there except the present species. fo 
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