One 

 soil on 



43. PAPILIONACE&. \\. Cbotalasia. 



. A shrub 4-5 ft. high with slender erect sulcate branches 

 linear or oblong leaves l|-3" long, bright-yellow Bowers 

 abpat f-1" loDg in loose long racemes. Pod sessile velvet v 

 1-U" long, stout. * y 



Cultivated and sometimes apparently wild in Singbhum. Sili Jonha 

 jungles (Eanchi scarps), Wood. Fls. Dec-Jany. Fr. Jany. 



"Beaked sepals, pedicels and pods all softly closely pubescent or velvety 

 usually brown. Corolla slightly exserted, standard 1" broad and Ion i' 

 veined red, silky without. s ' 



5. C- albida, Eeyne. 



An erect undershrub or herb 1-3 ft. sparingly branched 

 with erect appressed-hairy or silky branches, narrow leaves 

 and yellow flowers J-|" in terminal leafless 10-25-fld. racemes 

 with a scarcely exserted corolla. 



e of the commonest forest crotalarias, very abundant on hard clav 

 hilly ground. Fls., Fr. Sept.-Jany. Apparently annual. 



L. linear-oblong, oblong or oblanceolate 1-3'' by £-§* obtuse mucronate 

 pubescent above glaucous and" silky beneath, base narrowed to a very 

 short petiole. Stipules 0. Calyx very silky, two upper lobes oblonj 

 obtuse. Pod glabrous \" slightly exserted, 6-8-seeded, on pedicels f long. 



6. C. linifolia, L. /. 



An annual |-2 ft. high somewhat resembling tho last, but with the 

 upper lip of the calyx emarginate, not deeply lobed, leaves usually shorter 

 and pod as long as the calyx. 



ChotaNagpur, Prain. 



7. C- calycina, Schranh. Mota bir-jhunka, S. 



A herb 1-2 ft. high with brown silky branches and lanceolate or long 

 linear loaves. Easily recognised by the pale-yellow corolla being shorter 

 than the very large £-1" long calyx which is densely clothed with Ion? 

 brown hairs. Pod included. Seeds white. Frequent. Fls. in the rains 

 Fr. Nov. 



8. C- mysorensis, Roth. 



A herb 3-4 ft high with erect branches covered with long 

 spreading hairs, stssile linear-oblong or linear leaves 2-3" 



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