188 LEGUMINOS 2. CRoTALARIA. 
bracteas minute, subulate, reflexed: pedicels about the length of the calyx: 
bracteoles about the middle of the pedicel: calyx with a short adpressed pu- 
| bescence, shorter than the corolla; the upper lip more deeply cleft than the 
n SEM lower: legume about 4-5 times longer than the calyx, pubescent.— Wall.! L. 
nes. 477 n. 5414; Wight! cat. n. 1015—C. albida, herb. Heyne, (not Roth. 2)——My- 
sore. Travancore. “ra lbs, alas terina apsce Ctra le E 
The ultimate branchlets appear to become reflexed in a very remarkable 
manner; but from our having seen very few specimens, and all of them im- 
perfect, we do not know whether this be a peculiarity of growth, or arising 
from accident.. The specimen of C. albida in Heyne's herbarium is certainly 
this species; but the description given by Roth of what he received under 
that name from Heyne is much at variance. 
8 7. Low plants, branched from the base; branches prostrate or diffuse : stipules 
not decurrent, often minute or wanting: leaves simple: flowers racemose: 
bracteas not viscous: calyx slightly pubescent; segments flat-margined : le- 
gumes oblong, several-seeded, glabrous or hirsute.—Diffuse. 
+ Legumes hirsute. 
582. (32) C. hirsuta (Willd. :) perennial, herbaceous, procumbent, flaccid, 
hairy : stems terete: stipules lanceolate-subulate, reflexed : leaves from broad- 
oval to oblong, often acute, nearly glabrous above, hairy beneath: racemes 
leaf-opposed and terminal, few-flowered : bracteas cordate-acuminated, re- 
flexed, small: bracteoles very minute, about the middle of the pedicel: ca- 
UAM hairy, cleft almost to the base; segments linear-acuminated, shorter than 
e corolla: vexillum glabrous, purple-spotted: legumes sessile, oblong; 
broader upwards, thinly hairy, about twice the length of the calyx, 8-10- — 
seeded.— Willd. sp. 3. p. 978 ; DC. prod.2. p. 126 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 231; Roxb. 
fl. Ind. 3. p. 270; Wall.! L. n. 5413. a; Wight! cat. n. 102.—C. clavata, 
Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 366.— Samuleottah. 
583. (33) ©. bifaria (Linn.:) procumbent, herbaceous, clothed with 
somewhat rigid pubescence: branches slender, elongated, terete: stipules — 
small, ovate, acuminated, reflexed: leaves from orbicular to oblong or nat — — 
row linear, pubescent or at length nearly glabrous: racemes terminal an 
leaf-opposed, 1-2-flowered: bracteas cordate-acuminated : bracteoles ex- 
tremely minute, below the middle of the pedicel: calyx harshly pubescent, 
deeply 5-cleft, shorter than the corolla; segments linear-lanceolate, acum- | 
nated, coloured along the margins, pale in the middle: legumes obovoid, = 
hispidly pubescent or almost ad , mottled with  purple.— Linn. ! PE i 
, p. 322; DC. prod. 2. p. 127 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 236; Wall.! L. n. 5399 (partly); bee 
Wight! cat. n. 687.—C. dichotoma, Roth, nov. sp. p. 340; DC. l €; Spr. te 
c. p. 237.——Tanjore. Bur 
The specimens from Heyne's herbarium correspond so well with Roth's cha- 
racter of C. dichotoma, that we have no hesitation in considering it the same 
they are firmer and more rigid in their whole habit than those in Linnsus l 
harbarium and our own, a circumstance which seems to have led Roth to 
have supposed them erect, although really procumbent. When the rape 
are 1-flowered, the bracteas are in pairs at the base of the pedicel; where 
flowered, solitary. B 
584. (34) C. evolvuloides (Wight:) perennial, diffuse, all over hispidly | 
pubescent or somewhat hairy: branches terete, slender: stipules lanceo™ "d 
reflexed : leaves from oval to lanceolate, nearly glabrous on the upper tad * 
. face: racemes leaf-opposed, 3-8-flowered: bracteas cordate, acw NOE 
reflexed: bracteoles very minute, about the middle of the pedicels:, E 
hairy, deeply 5-cleft, nearly equal to the corolla: legumes about Dus d 
length of the calyx, sessile, oblong, hairy, about 3-seeded.—Wight! in P7 
L. n. 5410; cat. n. 686,—C. rubiginosa, Roxb. (not Willd.) fl. Ind. 9. p- =" 
