266 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Crotalarla. 



Branches slender, erect, a little hairy when young-. Leaves 

 scattered, short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, obtu^^e, with a 

 bristle, entire, both sides covered with a few silver-coloured 

 hairs, about two inches long, and little more than half an 

 inch broad. Stipules most minute, subulate. Racemes ter- 

 minal, long, many-flowered. Bracies very minute, subulate. 

 F/ou-ers middle-sized, yellow. Legumes sessile, linear-ob- 

 long, smooth, from six to ten-seeded. 



Note. It differs from C. sericea in having very minute, 

 awled stipules and bractes. 



7. C. Ihnfolia. WUld. iii. 975. 



Perennial, erect, sericeous. Leaves sessile, narrow cunei- 

 form, obtuse, hoary. Stipules none. Racemes terminal. Brac- 

 ies small, one-flowered. Legume sessile, length of the calyx, 

 from two to three-seeded. 



A native of Hindoostan, as well as other parts of India. 



8. C.fvlva. Roxb. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves lanceolar, sericeous when young. 

 Stipules none. Racemes terminal, and from the exterior axills. 

 Bractes ovate, recurved, those of the pedicel solitary, those of 

 the calyx paired. Legume sessile, oval, hid in the sericeous, 

 permanent calyx, two seeded. 



A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 

 seed to the Botanic garden Avhere in two years (he plants blos- 

 somed in October and November, and ripened their seed in 

 January. They were then stout, erect shrubs with a single, 

 ligneous trunk, and many ascending branches. 



Bark of the young s/ioots clothed with much soft, short, 

 white hair. Leaves simple, sub-sessile, lanceolate, entire, 

 while young sericeous on both sides, from two to four 

 inches lono-. Stipules none. Racemes terminal, and from the 

 exterior axills; the M-hole forming large, elegant, sub-erect, 

 sericeous panicles, bearing numerous, large, yellow flowers. 

 Bractes of the petioles solitary, one-flowered, ovate, recurv- 



