Crotalaria, diadelfhia nrcANDRiA. 275 



miual, large. Bracfes numerous, subulate, recurved, clam- 

 my. Lpf/nmes sessile, villous, one-seeded. 



From plants two years old, reared in the Botanic garden 

 from seed received from Dr. John at Tranquebar, the accom- 

 panying drawing and this description are taken. Flowering- 

 time, in Bengal, the cold season; seed ripens in March. 



Trunk short. Branches numerous, spreading in every 

 direction, round, clothed with nuich soft hair. Branclilets, 

 immediately under the panicle generally destitute of leaves, 

 but garnished with many fiisciculi of the clanuny, stipulary 

 leaflets ; whole height of the plant from two to four feet, 

 spreading to a considerably greater extent. Leaves simple, 

 sub-sessile, cuneate, hairy like the young shoots. Stiptiles in 

 axillary fascicles, subulate, recurved ; margin revolute; upper 

 surface clammy. Panicles terminal, large, from one to two 

 feet long, composed of simple, expanding- racemes. Braeles 

 like the stipules. Floicers large, yellow, smelling- rather 

 offensively. Banner, two callosities at the base, as in Doli- 

 chos, downy on the back. Germ one or two-seeded. Legumes 

 sessile, oval, downy, about as long as the long, slender acute 

 divisions of the calyx, generally one-seeded. 



SECT. II. Leaves compound. 



26. C. laburnifolia. Willd. iii. 982. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves ternate; leaflets obovate, smooth. 

 Stipules none. Racemes terminal. Legumes pedicelled, club- 

 bed, many-seeded. 



^'ella-tandale-cotti. Rliced. Mai. ix. t. 27. 



Beng. jNIunna. 



Teliny. Munna or Pedda-galli-geetsa. 



C. arhorescens. Burm. Zeijl. t. 25. 



An elegant, large shrubby, broom-like species; common 

 on the southern parts of the coast. Flowers most part of the 

 year. 



Stem erect, woody. Branches several, ascending; the 



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