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§ 5 Stems erect : stipules minute, not decurrent : leaves simple, more or less hairy 
: on both sides, particularly when young: racemes terminal, elongated, simple, 
many-flowered: bracteas and bracteoles small, narrow, not viscous on their 
upper side: calyx scarcely so long as the corolla, clothed with a dense rusty- 
coloured tomentum, cleft almost to the base; segments linear acuminated, 
falcate, flat-margined : legume oblong, densely clothed with a rusty-coloured 
tomentum.—Lriocarpe. 
570. (20) C. juncea (Linn.:) erect, branched, more or less clothed with 
shining silky pubescence or hairs: branches terete, striated: stipules and 
bracteas setaceous, minute: leaves from narrow linear to ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse with a mucro or acute: racemes elongated, terminating every branch: 
flowers distant: bracteoles at the base of the calyx, setaceous: calyx deeply 
5-cleft, densely covered with rusty tomentum ; segments linear-acuminated, 
the three lower usually cohering at the apex: legumes sessile, oblong, broader 
upwards, about twice the length of the calyx, tomentose, many-seeded.— 
Linn. ! sp. p. 1004 ; Sims bot. mag. t. 490; DC. prod. 2. p. 125 ; Spr. syst. 3. 
p. 238; Roxb. ! Cor. 2. t. 193 ; fl. Ind. 3. p. 259; Wall.! L. n. 5409 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 665, 666.—C. Benghalensis, Lam. enc. meth. 2. p. 196; DC. l e. ; Spr. 
Lc. ; Wall.! L. n. 5395.—C. tenuifolia, Roxb. ! fl. Ind. 8. p. 263; DC. L c. 
P. 126 ; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 275 ; Wall.! L. n. 5368.—C. fenestrata, Sim’s bot. —— 
mag. t. 1933 ; DC. l c. ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 238,—C. porrecta, Wall. ! L. n. 5363. 
—C. viminea, Wall! L. n. 5897. b.—C. sericea, Willd. sp. 3. p. 915.—Pluk. t. 
169. f. 5 ; and t. 385. f. 62. aut ge 
After a careful examination of specimens of the above in different her- 
baria, we have been unable to discover any permanent characters between 
them: by cultivation the plants are much more glabrous than the wild ones, 
and the leaves broader. C. sericea of Willdenow is obviously this species, 
but that part of his description which refers to cordate stipules belongs to 
what we consider the true C. sericea: the two characters have been so com- 
bined by De Candolle and Sprengel as to form a definition applicable to no 
existing species, 
“571. (21) C. tetragona (Roxb. :) shrubby, erect, young parts villous: young 
branches acutely 4-angled: stipules and bracteas minute, setaceous: leaves 
near-lanceolate, acuminated, slightly villous particularly when young: ra- 
cemes elongated, terminating every branch : flowers distant, resupmate- when 
expanded: pedicels horizontal at their base, then bent upwards: bracteoles 
: Setaceous, at the base of the calyx: calyx deeply 5-cleft, densely covered 
.. With rusty tomentum ; segments osten falcate, the three lower 
9nes often united at the apex: legumes sessile, oblong, broader upwards, S 
thrice the length of the calyx, densely tomentose, many-seeded.— Rozb. ! fi. 
Ind. 3. p. 263; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1593 ; Andr. bot. rep. t. 593 ; DC. prod. 
2 P. 128 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 238 ; Wall. ! L. n. 5307. a, b, c ; Wight! cat. n. 667. 
—Missionaries Garden. uu 
has a different habit from the last, arising principally from the longer 
leaves and resupinate flowers: but we sometimes entertain doubts if they are 
permanently distinct. ee 
572. (22) C. obtecta (Graham !:) suffruticose, erect, covered all over with 
a short Sh duc, ( vend terete: stipules and bracteas setaceous, 
minute: leaves oval, mucronate: racemes terminal, elon, a zia osi 
merous, approximated: bracteoles on the middle of the pedicels, sep 
calyx deeply 5-cleft, densely covered with rusty tomentum ; segments ci 
tinct, linear-acuminated, faleate: legumes sessile, oblong, rather broader n 
wards, about four times as long as the calyx, densely tomentose, ^w d ie 
ed.—Wall.! L. n. 5372 ; Wight! cat. n. 685.—C. tetragona, Wall.! L. n. 
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