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§ 9. Low hairy plants; branched from the base: branches diffuse or ascending : 
stipules wanting: leaves simple, scattered: peduncles few-flowered, leaf-op- 
posed, aggregated at the extremities of leafy branchlets: legumes sessile, 
small, globose or ovoid, black, glabrous. —Microcarpe. 
. 592. (42) C. nana (Burm.:) ceespitose, hairy, branched from the base: 
branches terete, slender, lower ones diffuse: stipules wanting : leaves simple, 
oblong, broader upwards, obtuse: flowers 2-3 on short leaf-opposed pedun- 
cles, or 5-6 in nearly sessile terminal umbels: calyx very hairy, as long as 
the corolla: legume ovoid, sessile, glabrous (black), about a half maie. fun 
the calyx.—Burm. fl. Ind. p. 156. t. 48. f. 2; DC. prod. 2. p. 127 ; Wight! 
eat. n. 672.—C. biflora, Willd.? sp. 3. p. 978; Spr. syst. 3. p. 227 ; Wall.! L. 
n. 5381.—C. melanocarpa, Waill.! L. n. 5382 (partly ).—C. umbellata, Wall.! 
L. n. 5383 (partly).—C. nummularia, Wall.! L. n. 5417. e.— Pluk. t. 386. 
J. 1.£— Southern provinces, common. : 
593. (43) C. umbellata (Wight:) branched from the base, very hairy: 
branches terete, ascending, elongated, twiggy: stipules wanting: leaves 
oblong, slightly acute ; flowers numerous, forming terminal umbels: calyx 
very hairy, as long as the corolla ; upper lip shortly bifid: legume globose, 
sessile, glabrous (black), scarcely longer than the calyx, 6-8-seeded.— Wight! 
cat. n. 700; Wall.! L. n. 5883 (partly) ———Dindygul hills. 
b. Leaves long-petioled, digitately 3—5-foliolate. 
§ 10. Leaves trifoliolate: legumes pubescent, ovate, gibbous, obliquely beaked by 
the hardened base of aa style: seeds 2, opposite.—Disperme—Cyrtolobus, 
R. Brown in Wall. L. n. 5432. 
594. (44) C. rigida (Heyne:) shrubby, very rigid, much and divaricately 
branched : ultimate branchlets woody, pubescent: stipules minute, setaceous: 
leaves trifoliolate, on a very short petiole: leaflets small (scarcely 2 lines 
long), broadly obeordate; upper side nearly glabrous, under pubescent: ra- 
cemes few-flowered, terminating the branchlets.—ZHeyne in Roth nov. sp. 
p.343; DC. prod. 2. p. 133; Spr. syst. 3. p. 239; Wight! cat. n. 714.— 
Vellanganny near Negapatam, on sandy soil. 
595. (45) C. Willdenowiana (DC.:) shrubby, much branched: young 
parts shortly villous: stipules lanceolate-subulate, conspicuous on the young 
branches: leaves trifoliolate; leaflets cuneate-linear, retuse or emarginate, 
about twice the length of the common petiole (about half an inch long and a 
line broad), pubescent on both sides, but particularly on the under: racemes 
terminal, 6-8-flowered on the extremity of the branches, 2-4-flowered on the 
axillary short nearly leafless branchlets.—DC. prod. 2. p. 134 ; Wight! cat. 
n. 716, 717.—C. spartioides, Spr. syst. 3. p. 240; Wall.! L. n. 5435.—C. ge- 
nistoides, Willd. sp. 3. p. 987. 
596. (46) C. rostrata (W. & A.:) shrubby, much branched; branches 
woody, and with the petioles and racemes softly pubescent: stipules long- 
subulate : leaves trifoliolate : leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse or slightly acute, 
mucronate, nearly equal to the petiole (from one-half to. three-fourths of = 
inch long and one-fourth of an inch broad) ; upper side glabrous and minutely 
dotted ; under pale with a silky adpressed pubescence: racemes terminal 
and leaf-opposed, many-flowered: flowers approximated : bracteas lanceo- 
ee, permanent, about half the length of the pedicels.— Wight ! cat. 
n. adi " " 
597. (47) C. trifoliastrum (Willd. :) suffruticose ; stems several, woody, 
erect or ascending: branches Vin and nearly simple, straight and twiggy, 
tomentose: stipules minute, setaceous: leaves rather distant, trifoliolate, 
long-petioled ; leaflets cuneate, obcordate, shorter than the petiole, (from 
