f>Al>ILiONACE:i^. t63 



green parts pubescent. Leaves nearly sessile, J4 to I 

 inch, elliptic to obovate or orbicular, obtuse or emar- 

 ginate ; when young clothed as are all the younger 

 parts and veins underneath with soft grey or brown pubes- 

 cence, at length glabrescent ; upper sides drying black, 

 lower with three or four pairs of prominent raised veins : 

 stipules decurrentto the leaf next below or half-way only. 

 Peduncles 2 to 3 inches, with one or two flowers, the 

 lowest bract fertile : bracteoles % inch, lanceolate-acute 

 on the very short calyx tube. Calyx teeth J^ to % inch, 

 hairy not silky. Corolla" included or hardly exserted. 

 Pod l54 by ^ inch, sessile or practically so. t. 75. 

 Wight Ic. t. 885. 



In grass on the open downs. Nilgiris : on Snowdon 8,000 

 feet. Fyson 659. Bourne 4623. Wight Herb. Prop, Nos. 

 689, 690, 690-A ; Schmidt ; Gcertner. Pulneys : Wight Kew, 

 Dist. JS/o. 586 at Kew. 



Gen. Dist, Dindigul Wall. Cat, No. 541 1 ; Mayaburan .S"?V /^. ^aaw, 



Crotalaria bourneaB Fyson No. 1093 ; VIII 18.* Stems 

 from the rootstock much forked, 4 to 6 inches, more or 

 less erect, slender, pubescent. Leaves ^ to % by 1/5 

 to Y\ inch, elliptic or oblong, obtuse or sub-acute at both 

 ends, densely pubescent on both sides, drying black 

 above : nerves three or four pairs raised underneath : 

 stipules /^ inch or less at the top, narrowing suddenly to 

 a barely visible wing extending a little more than half- 

 way to the next node. Peduncles J^ to M inch, leaf- 

 opposed, one-flowered with a bract and aborted flower at 

 about the middle. Calyx tube 1/12 inch, with two linear- 

 oblanceolate distinctly stalked bracteoles attached at 

 the base ; teeth Yz inch. Petals included two-thirds of 

 calyx. Pod i by ^ inch, with stalk of i/io inch. t. 76. 



Pulneys. Fyson 1093, 2053, 2164. Bourne 401, a right- 

 hand plant. 



