MPILIONACE^. 107 



triangular recurved. Leaves sessile, 3 by I to 5 by lJ4 

 inches, oblanceolate-cuneate, green and glabrous above, 

 clothed underneath with very regular short straight 

 hairs; midrib prominent ; lateral nerves straight nearly 

 to the margin. Racemes terminal of sixteen to twenty 

 flowers; bracts lanceolate acute; pedicels % inch, 

 without bracteoles. Calyx tube % inch broad ; three 

 lower teeth ^ inch by ^ inch at the base ; two upper 

 % by % inch. Corolla handsome ; standard I by % 

 inch, notched spreading backwards, yellow but even- 

 tually tinged at the base with brown wing petals 

 forming a steep roof over the keel, fading a reddish 

 terra-cotta ; keel J4 inch by % inch, with ^ inch 

 point, fringed with white hairs, fading yellow ; style 

 eventually protruding. Pod when young horizontal, 

 sharply bent at the apex ; when ripe 2 by J^ inch, 

 rectangular on cylindrical with flat top, stalked and 

 well exserted from the calyx which forms a conspicuous 

 untidy cup at the base, and tipped by the stout persist- 

 ent style. 



Flowers on the Pulney downs in September the pods remain- 

 ing till the following summer. Pulneys : on the open downs 

 frequent on paths and clearings from 800 feet down as far at 

 least as 5,500 feet. Nilgiris : (W. & A.). Fyson 416, 3014. 

 Boicrne 118, 675, 2996. 



Gen. DisL Not on the ghats to the north nor elsewhere in India or 

 beyond. It might be said to be replaced on the plains by C. rettisa. 



Crotalaria formosa Graham, Wall. Cat. 5393 ! ; F.B.I. 

 ii 76, VIII 43 ; a shrub, distinguished by the tawny hairs 

 of the stem and the very dense short thick racemes of 

 large yellow flowers. 



Stem dwarfed, much branched, covered with tawny 

 hairs; stipules 1/5 inch, narrow and curved downwards. 

 Leaves 2 by I inch, obovate, narrowed to the short 

 stalk, dark green above, silky below and brown with 

 tawny hairs on the veins, mucronate; usually stiffly 



