PAPILIONACE.^. 105 



the top, narrowing in a curve gradually to the next node. 

 Peduncles % inch, with one or more small bracts and 

 aborted flowers. Calyx ^ inch, very silky. Corolla 

 larger. Pod H^Y Vs inch with stalk of 1/15 inch. 



Pulneys, on the downs above 7,000 feet in grass. Fyso?i 473. 

 Bourne 410. 



Crotalaria albida Heyne ; Wallich Cat. No, 5401, 2 and 

 3 ; F.B.L ii 71, VIII 23. Branches numerous and slender 

 from a short woody stem, forking low down but not 

 branching above. Leaves subsessile, wedge-shaped, J^ 

 to M by J^ to 1/5 inch, strongly one-nerved, with rounded 

 end, covered on the under side with short hairs and small 

 round translucent glands. No stipules. Flowers in long 

 terminal racemes of eight to ten. Pedicels % inch, calyx 

 1/5 inch, hairy, two-lipped : the two upper lobes connate, 

 and the three lower also connate, for about one-third. 

 Bracteoles and the minute on the tube just below the 

 parting of the lips. Corolla yellow : standard with green 

 veins and a patch of silky hairs outside at the top, and 

 with two scales at the base inside : wings a deeper yellow 

 with a patch of cross-ridges. Style hairy. Pod quite 

 glabrous. Seeds black and shiny with conspicuous 

 radicle, t. 78. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal and below. Fyson 1847. Bourne 

 239j 257, 412. 



Gen. Dist. Tropical regions India, Ceylon, Malay, China and the 

 Phillipines. 



Crotalaria calycina Schrenk ; F.B.L ii 72, VIII 28; 

 Rabbit's Ears ; distinguished from all other (high level) 

 species growing near the ground, by the densely hairy 

 calyx, whose upper lip stands up like two brown silky 

 ears behind the pale yellow flower. 



An annual from a few inches to 2 feet, the stem and 

 branches flexuous, and clothed throughout with erect, 

 appressed, coarse brown hairs, more numerous and 



