Crotalaria. diadelphia decandria. 277 



forming a large ramous shrub, of about six or seven feet in 

 hejolit ; t/ovvg shoots round, and clothed wifh fine, minute 

 pubescence. Leaves ternate ; lenflels nearly equal, oblong-, 

 or broad-lanceolar, deep green on the upper side, paler under- 

 neath ; from one and a half to two inches long, and less than 

 one in breadth. Petioles blender, channelled, villous. Sii- 

 pnlessmwW, with a broad base, and subulate apex, permanent. 

 Racemes at first terminal, becoming lateral as the branches 

 extend in length. Flouiers numerous, pretty large, pale yel- 

 low. . Dractes of the ])edicels solitary, one-flowered, small, 

 lanceolate; those of the calyx larger and inserted obliquely 

 on its base. Ca/i/.r of five equal divisions. Xe^wme sessile, 

 oblong, compressed, villous, about an inch long, and less 

 than half that in breadth. Seeds kw, obliquely-reniform. 



29. C. trifoliastrum. W'dld. iii. 983. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves ternate ; leaflets cuneate, emargi- 

 nate. Stipules filiform. Racemes terminal. Legumes sessile, 

 smooth, four-seeded. 



C. Betigalensis, &c. Pluck. Aim. t. 169. y. 5. 



Telhir/. Na<ia-galli-geetsa. 



A pretty large, erect, shrubby species; growing about 

 hedges, borders of cultivated land, &c. 



Root woody, yellow. Stems several,erect,M'oody, branchy. 

 Branches twiggy, a little downy, the whole plant from one 

 to four feet high. Leaves ternate. Leaflets broad-wedge- 

 formed, or obcordate, emarginate with a bristle, above smooth, 

 below with a few hairs, about an inch long, and half an inch 

 broad. Petioles as long as the leaflets, channelled. Stipules 

 subulate. Racemes terminal, or brancldet-opposed, long, 

 straight, many-flowered. Bractes of the pedicel subulate, 

 one-flowered ; of the calyx two, opposite, minute. Flowers 

 yellow. Legume sessile, almost globular, size of a pea, 

 smooth, two-seeded. 



