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180 XL. LEGUMixos.i;. \Crotahrla, 



many feet, ivith few, erect, sulcate-striate, silky-pubescent brandies. Leaves 

 simple, nearly sessile, oblong or linear, obtuse, 1 to 3 in., or when narrow, i 

 in. long or more, glabrous above or nearly so, pubescent underneath, riowers 

 rather hirge, yellow, not numerous, in along terminal raceme. Calyx tomen- 

 tose, 4 to 6 or even 7 lines long, deeply divided into narrow-lanceolate nearly 

 equal lobes, the 2 upper ones truncate or hooked at the top. Petals slightly 

 exceeding the calyx, the standard usually pubescent. Ovary sessile, villous, 

 with about 20 ovules. Pod above 1 in/long, densely clothed witli a rusty 

 touicntum.— Andr. Bot. Eep. t. 422 ; Bot. Mag. t. 490 ; W. and Arn.Prod. 

 PL Ind. 185 (with the synonyms given); P. Muell. Fragm. iii. 51. 



N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, Hooker^s niid Start's Creeks, F. Mueller. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, R, Broicn ; Logan river, Fraser ; Port 'Dm\%o\\, Bow- 

 man; Rockliampton, Thozet, Dallaclnj ; Wide Bay, Leichhardt, 



The species is common in East India, -where it 'is umeh cultivated for the fibrous bark, 

 used as a substitute for hemp under the name of Sann. 



4. C. linifolia, Linn./.; BC, Prod. ii. 128. A perennial with a tliick 

 rhizome, or sometimes annual, exceedingly vnriable in aspect, usually silky- 

 pubescent or villous, sometimes clothe (f with long spreading hairs or with a 

 close or woolly white tomentum, often dryiug bhick. Steins erect or ascend- 

 ing, from a few inches to 1^ ft. high. 'Leaves simple, the lower ones, or 

 nearly all in the smaller formS, obovate or oblong, obtuse and mostly under 

 \ in, long, the upper ones, or nearly all in the elongated vavietif-s, narroff- 

 oblong or linear, 1 to 2 in. long, obtuse or almost acute. Flowers smnll, 

 yellow, in loose terminal racemes. Calyx 3 to 4 lines bug, divided nearly to 

 the base into 2 lips, the upper one 2-toothed, the lower one 34obed to the 

 uiiddle.^ Petals not exceeding the calyx. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 10 to 

 ""^ "' ' ^ ' k'oid-globular, scarcely exceeding the calyx.^W. and Am. 

 X iuu. x'l. xiiu. lyu ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 569 ; F. Muell Fragm. 

 111. 55 ; a denojjhylla, Yog. ; Benth. 1. c. ; C. melanocarpa, Wall. ; Benth. Ic 



W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. R. Brown ; N. W. Coast, Bi/noe; 

 Goulburn Island, J. Cannivyham ; Victoria river and Macadam ruige, f. MueUer. 

 V ^'^t!"^^*"^' Endeavour river, Kei)i)cl Bay, Shoalwater Bay, etc.,'i?. Bmmi^^'^ 

 YovKMGi/hvray; Percy Island, A. Cunnbigham ; Rockhampton, r/zt^.^^^md others, 

 Fort Denisori, FdzaJan ; Morcton Hay, WGillivray, F. Mueller, and others. 



w. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler, 

 *i.^i'T^'^^^^'^ lierbarium comprises a particularly instructive scries of specimens connecting 

 the diilereut forms, which have at first si^ht the appearance of distinct species. Amidst au 

 ttiese varieties the species is easily recognized by the calyx and pod. 



20 ovules. Pod o\ 

 rrod. FI. Ind. 190 



A decurohent 



u. v^. caiycma, ^chramk, FL Har. HorL Monac. L 12. A (iecuiiju.u. 

 or nearly erect annual, 1 to \\ ft. high, not much branched, villous with ap- 

 pressed or scarcely spreading hairs. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, from short 

 and oblong, to lanceolate or linear and 2 to 6 in. loner, glabrous or nearly so 

 above, villous underneath. Flowers in terminal racemes, remarkable for their 

 large pendulous calyx, often fully 1 in. long, thickly covered with long^P'^X; 

 ang rusty hairs, deeply divided into nearly equal lobes the 2 upper ones mther 

 broader. Petals pale yellow, shorter than the calyx. Ovary sessile, glabroii" 

 with above 30 ovules. Pod oblong, not exceeding the cnlvx.-lJentb. »^ 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 564 ; C. anihjlhide^, D. Don ; W. and Arn. Prod. *^ 

 Ind. 181, and of some others, not of Lam. 





