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Crotalaria obtecta Grah, ; F.BJ. ii 79, VIII 55. A 

 straggling shrub densely clothed with brown silky hairs. 

 Leaves 2 to 4 inches, nearly elliptic, obovate or oblong, 

 velvetty above and below. Stipules narrow, '% inch, 

 racemes close, 12 to 20 flowered. Pod ij^ to 2 inches by 

 J^ to M inch, densely covered with short stiff brown 

 hairs. 



Nilgiris : 4,000 to 6,000 feet. Coonoor, etc. Fyson 6552. 



Crotalaria notonii W. & A. ; F,B.L ii 82, VIII 66. A 

 shrub 2 to 6 feet high. All parts thinly pubescent with 

 yellowish hairs ; stipules setaceous 1/5 inch. Leaves 

 trifoliate, rachis M inch, leaflets about as long, J^ inch, 

 broad, obovate or elliptic, obtuse mucronate corymbose. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes, forming a large corymbose 

 panicle 2 feet across. Bracts and bracteoles linear. 

 Calyx teeth subequal, reflexed. Corolla yellow ; standard 

 % inch wide and long, streaked with brown and with 

 two oval brown marks at the base, bent quite back ; 

 wings l^ inch wide, horizontal over the very acute keel. 

 Pod 5^ inch, hardly longer than broad, with prominent 

 incurved beak, finely pubescent ; seeds I or 2, dark 

 olive brown, t. 311. Wt. Ic. t. 752. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, on the slope above Brooklands estate, etc., 

 at 6,000 feet, common ; flowering best in September. Fyson 

 6241, 6404. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, NiJgiri and Anamalai hills, 4,000 to 6,000 

 feet. 



The flowers have the scent of the English Melilotus. 



Crotalaria striata DC. ; F.B.L ii 84, VIII 73. An erect 

 low shrub, 2 to 4 feet, with robust thinly silky branches. 

 Petioles 2 to 4 inches. Leaflets 3, 3 to 4 inches, obovate, 

 oblong, obtuse. Flowers 20 to 50 in racemes of J^ to I 

 foot, yellow striped with red. Pod cylindrical, }^ to 2 

 inches, slightly decurved, with 20 to 30 seeds. 



