PAPlLlONACEiE. 16r 



r Racemes slender . /. io8. C. barbata. 



f-j Racemes contracted, i to 2 inches long and broad. 



L /. 107. C. formosa. 



r Racemes numerous in the upper leaf-axils forming large 



I terminal panicles ...../. 109. C. madurensis. 

 ° '1 Racemes not panicled : leaves erect oblanceolate. . . 



[ /. 106. C. leschenaultii. 



Branches erect. Racemes simple, terminal. Leaves ^ 



inch wedge-shaped . . . , . . /. 105. C. albida. 



, J Calyx very brown shaggy ; two upper teeth overtopping the 



j corolla. Rabit's Ears . . . . /. 105. C. calycina. 



I Calyx hairy or glabrous, not shaggy : leaves ovate : trailing 



[ herbs (Pubteys only) ..../. loi. C fysoni. 



Crotalaria fysoni Dunn; VIII 13^; Creeping Rattle- 

 pod : a small trailing plant with large yellow flowers 

 bunched at the ends of the stems or branches. 



Stems several from the perennial rootstock, 6 to 24 

 inches long, occasionally bifurcating, minutely ridged 

 and usually downy, prostrate. Leaves all facing up- 

 wards, with pulvinus but hardly petioled, ^ to 1% inches 

 by /^ to % inch, mostly ovate ; but the lower often 

 smaller, ^ inch and rounded to orbicular ; acute mucro- 

 nate or retuse; usually more or less downy by white 

 hairs springing from persistent swollen bases which 

 roughen the surface when the hairs have fallen : margin 

 revolute : nerves raised underneath, obscure above. 

 Racemes terminal ; the stem entirely bare for 2 or 3 inches 

 below them, ascending and carrying the four to six 

 flowers up off the ground : bracts 1/16 inch ovate acute 

 or lanceolate, one-veined: pedicels J4 inch : bracteoles 

 minute or o. Calyx obscurely two-lipped, shaggy with 

 white hairs ; teeth lanceolate acute, H to ^i inch or 

 three or four times the short tube ; upper teeth slightly 

 broader than the lower and connate for one-third their 

 length. Corolla well exserted, up to I inch or more 

 across: standard pure yellow veined reddish brown 

 especially on the back, often reflexed: wings closely 



