106 PAPlLlONACEiS. 



shining on the younger parts, which give the whole 



plant a brown shaggy look. Leaves ^ to I inch, by J^ 



to 1/5 inch, elliptic or oblanceolate, acute, sessile ; 



densely hairy on the lower side. Flowers at the ends of 



leafy branches, not in distinct racemes ; bracts and 



bracteoles % inch, green ; stalks 1/5 inch. Calyx M 



inch, very shaggy and brown, the two upper sepals % 



inch wide, obtuse, united half-way, the two lower less 



than half as wide, free to the base and acute. Corolla 



glabrous, pale yellow, not exserted beyond the sepals ; 



standard with long hairs down the middle line behind or 



near the blunt apex. Pod sessile J^ inch, enclosed in the 



calyx, glabrous, dark brown, very turgid, and closely 



packed with twenty-five to thirty seeds whose rather 



long stalks enable them to lie in four-crowded rows 



[A.G.B.] . 



Pulneys : common on the open grass land of the Kodai- 

 kanal downs. Fyso?t 431, 2132. Bourne 125, 252, 1067.* 



Gen, Dist. Widely over the tropics of the Old World, from Africa to 

 South India, Ceylon and North Australia and on the Himalayas eastward 

 into Burma, 



The plant appears to vary enormously according to locality. On the 

 higher downs it is a dwarf (like C. crinita Grahafn) of 4 to 6 inches, with flat 

 leaves one-fourth to three-fourth inch ; or in long grass a tall plant with 

 linear leaves, of over i inch, densely clothed with long hairs which meet 

 along the midrib. Fyson^Z'^. Botirneio67* Near Vilpatti />'.y<?;/ 1083 

 (a few hundred feet below Kodaikanal) and lower down Bourne 877 *, 458 • 

 it becomes a sturdy plant with elliptic acute leaves one and three fourth by 

 half inch (C. roxhurghiana DC.) and at still lower levels it becomes C. 

 attchyllorde^ Don, with stem of 3 feet and more, and leaves 3 to 4 inches 

 by half inch ; but also a form with much narrower leaves like those of the 

 tall grass form of the higher levels {Bourne 1067). 



Crotalaria leschenaultii DC; Wall. Cat. 5407; 

 F.BJ. ii 76, VIII 42 ; a small bush with erect rather 

 long and narrow wedge-shaped leaves and handsome 

 spikes of large yellow flowers, and enormous pods frilled 

 at the base by the dried calyx. 



Branches ascending from a perennial rootstock, stout 

 to J4 inch, thick, striated not hairy. Stipules J^ inch, 



