104 ^APILiONACE^. 



Allied to C. ovalifolia Wall., and like it leaves drying black abov6, 

 but branches stiff though slender, and very much more bifurcating, leaves 

 two or three times as long as broad, peduncles one-flowered, and corolla 

 well included. 



Crotalaria scabrclla Wight and Arnott ; Wight Cat. 



692 1 ; F.B.I, ii 69, as a var of C. ruhiginosa ; VIII 18. 



A sturdy bushy plant I to 2 feet, with hard and stiff 



branches ; most variable as regards size of leaves and 



stipules in different parts of the same plant : older parts 



often black, with large persistent stipular wings I inch 



across, wider than the leaves. Leaves elliptic ovate or 



obovate, acute, mucronate, silky on both sides, or slightly 



scabrid above, from l^ by I inch on strong parts to % 



by ^ inch, on short lateral branches and then like 



C. conferta : nerves three to four pairs impressed on the 



upper side, raised on the lower. Peduncles 2 to 4 inches, 



two to four-flowered, attached about I inch below the 



opposing leaves: bracts ^ inch lanceolate, ciliate, with 



distinctly swollen base ; lower two or three empty : 



bracteoles on the calyx, 1/5 inch, falcate lanceolate, acute. 



Calyxtube very short; lower teeth % inch, upper nearly 



as long, divided half-way. Corolla scarcely exserted. 



Pod l54 by % inch ; seeds sixteen to twenty, t. 77. 



Nilgiris and Pulneys : on the open downs on banks in long 

 grass, etc. /|y 5^;? 521, 1083, 2070, 2 114, 2715. ^^^^^^253,514. 



Very distinct from C. ovalifolia (C. rubiginosa of the F.B.I.) ; and from 

 C. wightiana, distinguished by its smaller and much less variable leaves and 

 by its shorter stalk to the smaller pod : and from C. conferta by its larger 

 pod and larger habit altogether. 



Crotalaria conferta Fyson No. 473 ; VIII 18 ; distin- 

 guished from C. scabrellas Wight and Arnott, by the uni- 

 formly smaller leaves, more distinctly stalked and shorter 

 pod, and corolla exserted from the calyx. Branches 

 from a rootstock, twiggy, 6 to 8 inches. Leaves % to J^ 

 by 1/12 to % inch elliptic acute at both ends, silky pubes- 

 cent and glossy on both sidas, drying a rich shiny brown ; 

 nerves not conspicuous below : stipular wing ^ inch at 



