Crotalaria, diadelphia decandkia. 269 



2n(l. With (lark-coloured flowers, black seed, and white 

 eye. 



Srd. With white flowers, white seed, and black eye. 



CROTALARIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1172. 

 Calyx five-parted. jfiTee/ beaked. /'^i/a//je?i^s connate, with 

 a fissure on the back, w hich has a circular gape at the base. 

 Anthers alternately sagittate, and sub rotund. Legume 

 turoid. 



SECT. I. Leaves simple. 



1. C.jiincea. Willi/, iii. p. 974. Corom. pi. 2. J^. 193. 



Annual, straight. Leaves sub-sessile, linear-lanceolate, 

 hairy, rather obtuse. Racemes terminal. Lee/ nmes sessile, 

 club-shaped, many-seeded. 



Sans. Sana. See *^siat. Res. iv. p. 29G. 



Beng. Sun. 



Teling. Chanamoo. 



( ing. Henna, or Ilane. 



Katou-tandale-cotti. Rheed. Mai. ix. t. 26. 



See Philosophical Transactions oj' London, vol. lxiv\ p. 

 99. 



An annual plant, very generally cultivated all over the 

 southern parts of Asia for the fibres of its bark, which maybe 

 called (he Hemp of India. The time of flowering and ripen- 

 ing its seed depend on the season it is sown; for in some parts 

 it is raised during the rainy season, in others during the dry. 



Stein annual, straight, from four to eight feet high, or even 

 more, striated from the insertion of the leaves, a little downy, 

 towards the top branchy, and, m hen the plant stands single, 

 more so. Leaves scattered, short-pelioled, lanceolate, obtuse, 

 with a small bristle-like point ; both sides covered Avith soft, 

 silver-coloured hairs, fri<m two to six inches long, and from 

 half an inch, to one and a half broad. Stipules subulate, 



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