296 XLVin. Li'GUMixos.E. 



10. Crotalaria pusilla, Iletfne, ex Roth, Nov. PL Sj). (1821) p. 335. 

 A much-branched leafy herb 2-5 in. high ; branches ascending, clothed 

 with appressed brownish silky hairs. Leaves ^-f by yij-fV ^^-i sub- 

 sessile, linear-oblong, densely silky, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the 

 base ; stipules 0. Racemes terminal and lateral, numerous, g-l in. long, 

 3-10-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts minute, lanceolate. Calyx hairy 

 outside ; teeth -jL in, long, linear, acute. Corolla yellow, slightly ex- 

 serted. Pods ^| in. long, oblong, densely silky-villous. Seeds 4-8. 

 This is the smallest species of Crotalaria in India. Y\. B. I. v. 2, p. 70; 

 A\^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 420.— Flowers : Sept.- 

 Oct. 



KoNKAN : Bombay, Capf. Geburne ! Deccan : near Wadi Junction, G. I. P. Railway, 

 Vaidi/al S. M. Country: Dharwar, Woodrow; Badauii, JVoodrow '.; Paclsliapur, 

 Ritchie, 1171 ! — Distrib. From the Bombay Presidency southwards. 



11. Crotalaria nana. Barm. Fl. Lid. (1768) p. 156, t. 48, fig. 2. 

 Annual, 9-18 in. high, sometimes erect and without branches, sometimes 

 branched from the base or from above the base ; stem and branches 

 clothed with long spreading hairs. Leaves |-2 by J-g in., subsessile, 

 closely and minutely pellucido-punctate, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 subacute, apiculate, silky-hairy on both surfaces, base subcuneate : 

 stipules 0. Flowers small, usually in crowded capitate or quasiumbellate 

 terminal racemes, sometimes a few solitary or 2-3 together in some 

 of the upper leaf-axils ; pedicels short, hairy ; bracts and bracteoles 

 small, linear-subulate, very hairy. Calyx densely hairy outside, the 2 

 ujjper teeth connate for nearly their entire length very shortly divided 

 at the apex, the 3 lower teeth triangular, acute. Corolla not exserted ; 

 standard oblong, rounded, with a tuft of hairs at the back below the 

 apex. Pods | in. long, globose-ovoid, glabrous, black when ripe, scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx. Seeds 6-10. PI. B. I. v. 2, p. 71 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 56 ; Trim. Y\. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 13 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 420. Crotalaria urnbellata, Wight, in Wall. Cat. 5383; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 45; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 56. — Plowers : Sept.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! ; Vingorla and Malwan, Bahcll if' Gibson. Deccan : Maha- 

 blcshwar, Cooke\, Woodrow \ S. M. Countuy : Eatnghut, Law ex Graham. — Distrib. 

 ludia (W. Peninsula; ; Ceylon. 



12. Crotalaria chinensis, Linn. Sijst. ed. 10 (1759) p. 1158. 

 Annual, 1-2 ft. high, usually much-branched ; stems and branches 

 clothed with long spreading brown silky hairs. Leaves subsessile, 1-2^ 

 by 4~T "^•' f^blong or oblanceolate, rounded at the base and apex, 

 pellucido-punctate, apiculate, more or less silky-hairv ; stipules 0. 

 Plowers in terminal capitate racemes, 3-6 in a hend ; bracts and 

 bracteoles linear, persistent. Calyx f.-h in. long, densely hairy ; lower 

 teeth linear, the upper lanceolate. Coi'olla pale yellow, not exserted ; 

 standard orbicular-oblong, subacute, with a dense tuft of long hairs at 

 the back below the apex. Pods sessile, as long as the calyx, glabrous. 

 Seeds 15-20. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 73 ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 V. 2 (1843) p. 566 {not of Eoxb.).— Flowers : Oct. 



Rare. Konkan : Storki^\\ Sevcrndroog taluka, (SVcc/^vi I — Distrib. Throughout 

 India; Sumatra, China, Pbiliiipines. 



