108 ?apili6nace^. 



erect. Racemes l to 2 inches long and as broad 

 pedicels short, densely silky. Calyx teeth H to % inch, 

 four times the tube, shaggy, acute. Corolla not much 

 longer, yellow, the standard veined brown. Pod dis- 

 tinctly stalked, at first black, afterwards green and finally 

 straw-coloured, about iVz by % inch, smooth and shiny, 

 and frilled below by the dried calyx, t. 79. Wight 

 Ic. t. 981. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund on Snowdon, flower September to 

 February, fruit March. In sholas and on the open downs near 

 Pykara. Not known on the Pulneys. Fyson 3017. 



The foliage is quite like C lescheHatdtii DC. in which however the 

 spikes are four or five times as long, and there are no tawny hairs. 



Crotalaria barbata Graham, Wall Cat. 5394 ! ; F.B.I 

 ii 76, VIII 44 ; a sturdy shrub with erect spikes of rich 

 yellow flowers, conspicuous against the dark brown axis 

 and pedicels ; and with erect rather crowded leaves. 



Branches thickly clothed with brown hairs. Leaves 

 sessile (but pulvinus 1/12 inch), erect, 2 to 4 inches, 

 obovate with rounded base, clothed below with long 

 white hairs, on the upper side nearly glabrous and 

 glossy. Racemes terminal, 4 to 8 inches ; bracts % inch, 

 pedicels ^ inch, densely clothed with dark brown hairs. 

 Calyx very distinctly two-lipped ; tube M inch ; teeth 

 % inch, the two upper broader than the three lower, all 

 clothed with brown silky hairs. Corolla a rich yellow ; 

 standard I inch across, notched. Pod erect green, quite 

 glabrous, 1% by Ya inch, widest at the upper end, 

 surmounted by the Va inch stout style and at the base 

 frilled by the dried calyx, t. 80. Wight Ic. t. 980. 



Nilgiris : Near Ootacamund on the slopes of Snowdon 7,700 

 feet. Pykara 6,600 feet. Coonoor. Fyson 1985, 2710. Not 

 collected on Pulneys. 



Gen. Dist. Only on the South Indian mountains of Nile;iris and 

 Travancore, not northwards on the Bombay Ghats. 



