Crctalaria. diadelphia decandria. 279 



ly, about three quarters of an inch long-. Seed several, reni- 

 forni, smooth, pale-coloured. 



32. C. elliptica. Roxb. 



Shrubby, spreading-. Leaves ternate ; leaflets elliptic. Sti- 

 pules and bractes conic-ovate, acute. Logume sessile, oval, 

 villous, two seeded. 



A native of China, from thence introduced into the Botanic 

 garden, where it flowers in August and September. The seed 

 ripens in two or three months afterwards. 



Stem scarcely any, but several, slender ligneous branches 

 spreading- out on each side, a little above the surface of the 

 earth ; these and the young- shoots are round, and hairy, and 

 their length from one to two feet. Leaves ternate. Leajlets 

 elliptic, obtuse, entire, a little hairy underneath, from an inch, 

 to an inch and a half long-, and rather more than half of that 

 in breadth. Stipules acute, recurvate, rigid, smooth above, 

 hairy underneath. Racemes terminal, becoming- lateral ; 

 about two inches long, many-flowered, hairy. Floioers small, 

 yellow, solitary. Bractes small, ovate, acuminate, hairy, re- 

 curvate; those of the pedicels solitary, those of the calyx two. 

 Calyx hairy, five-toothed. Filaments united into one body, 

 with the fissure ending in a circular opening at the base. An- 

 thers alternately linear and round as in the genus. Lequme 

 sessile, oval, villous, two-seeded. Seeds reniform, smooth. 



33. C. quinqnefolia. Willd. iii. 988. 



Annual, erect. Leaves quinate. 



Wellia-tandale-cotti. Rheed. Mai. ix. t. 28. 



Telincf. Neroo-galli-geetsa. 



A most elegant, large, annual species, growing chiefly in 

 the wet rice fields. Flowers during the rainy season. 



5';em annual, erect, ramous, striated, piped, from three to 

 fourfeethigh. f^rawcAes stem-like. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 digitate. Xeo^eis sessile, lanceolate, emarginate with a bris- 

 tle in the cleft ; above smooth, below a little hairy, from one 



