102 PAPILIONACE.^. 



adjacent and parallel, oblong obtuse, with the upper half 

 or two-thirds of the outer surface drawn up as in other 

 species into rows of minute cross ridges between the 

 veins. Alternate stamens much longer than the others 

 and their anthers twice as long. Style swollen and 

 very hairy at the tip. Pod I to l54 by ^ to J^ inch, or 

 three times the calyx, elliptic oblong or truncate, and 

 broadest at the further end, usually downy, sometimes 

 shaggy : seeds eight to ten. Varies much in hairiness, 

 pods may be quite shaggy ; and there is also a perfectly 

 glabrous form. t. 74. 



One of the commonest plants on the Kodaikanal downs where 

 it sprawls by road-sides, over the edges of paths and cattle tracks 

 or runs in the grass. Does not grow on the Nilgiris and till 

 collected by Sir Alfred Bourne was unknown to the herbariums 

 of Calcutta and Kew. Described recently by Dunn, in Kew 

 Bulletin 1913. Fpon 276, 1072, 1846, 3013. Bourne 28, 57, 

 2038, 2513.^ 



Note on the species of the section alatce. 



Till recently the only species of the section alatcE (with wing-stipules), 

 described from South Indian mountains, were called C. rubighiosa and C. 

 scabrella W. & A. ; and the latter together with C. wightiana Wall, was 

 included, by Baker in the F.B.I, as varieties of the first. Finding it I had 

 two other forms I sent them and what I supposed was C. rtibiginosa VVilld. 

 typica, to Dr, Harms of Berlin for comparison with Willdenow's type plant 

 in that herbarium. To my surprise and his, and indeed of every one who 

 is interested in the plant, he found that Willdenow's plant is not an Indian 

 one at all, for it is identical with C. sagitalis L., a North American plant, 

 and the locality Ind. Or. on his sheet must therefore be incorrect. This 

 mistake about the locality was undoubtedly the cause of the supposition 

 that the well-known Indian plant is C. rubiginosa W^illd. The Indian 

 plant appears to me identical with Wallich's Cat. 541 1, from Dindigul, 

 under the name C. ovalifolia^ though Wallich's leaves are smaller than 

 one usually finds them, I have therefore taken that name, and have given 

 a formal description in the Kew Bulletin, C. sagitalis L,, to which Dr. 

 Harms reduces Willdenow's rubiginosa, has smaller flowers and oblong 

 or linear leaves and is quite distinct. C. scabrella W. & A. is separated 

 as being quite distinct. See Train Journal As, Soc, Bengal. 



Crotalaria ovalifolia Wall. Cat. 5411 !; C. rubiginosa 

 typica of F.B.I, ii 69, not of Willdenow; VIII iS-a. 

 Rootstock perennial, 3 inches thick ; branches weak, 6 to 

 12 inches, diffuse or more or less erect in herbage ; all 



