XLTIII. LEGUMIXOS.E. 297 



13. Crotalaria priestleyoidea. Baker, in IIoolc. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2 



(1876) p. 74. A low undershrub ; branches ascending, densely clothed 

 with spreading brown silky hairs. Leaves nearly as broad as long, sub- 

 sessile, ^-g by |-| in., broadly obovare or oblanceolate, niucronate, the 

 upper surface sparsely clothed with long hairs, the lower shaggy, base 

 rounded or acute ; stipules 0. Flowers 4-8, in dense terniiual heads ; 

 bracts ^ in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, shaggy outside, 

 glabrous or nearly so within. Calyx shaggy; lower teeth Jiuear, acute, 

 the upper lanceolate and g-^ in. broad. Corolla as long as the calyx ; 

 standard § by | in., obovate-oblong, I'ounded at the apex and with a 

 small tuft of hairs at the back. Pods sessile, ?j in. long, dark brown, 

 glabrous, smooth and polished. Seeds 10-10, chestnut-brown, smooth, 

 polished. 



Eare. Konkan: Lawl, S/ocAs], Dalzell '. — Distrib. India, Anamallay hills 

 {Beddome). 



14. Crotalaria dubia, GraJi. in Wall. Cat. (1828) 5404. Annual, 

 1-2 ft. high, simple or branched ; stems and branches silky with 

 appressed hairs. Leaves membranous, 2-3 by 1-1^ in., obovate, sub- 

 acute, mucrouate, more or less silky abo\e, densely so beneath, base 

 cuneate ; main nerves G-9 pairs, prominent on the under surface, hairy ; 

 petioles yLr-g in. long ; stipules minute, setaceous. Flowers 12-20 in 

 dense, silky-villous, usually oblong terminal heads, sometimes reaching 



2 in. long, with often a leaf just below the head ; bracts and bracteoles 

 o\ate-lanceolate, acute, about ^ in. long, hairy on both surfaces. Calyx 

 densely fulvous-silky outside, glabrous within ; segments all long, acu- 

 minate, the 2 upper slightly broader and less deeply divided than the 



3 lower. Corolla as long as the calyx ; standard broadly oblong, emar- 

 ginate, with 2 or 3 long hairs at the back near the apex. Pods sessile, 

 as long as the calyx, glabrous, i in. long, oblong. Seeds G-S, pale 

 brown, polished. PI. B. I. v. 2, p. 73; Eenth. in Hook. liOud. Journ. 

 V. 2 (1843) p. 568.— Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



A rare plant in tiie Bombay Presidency. Konkan : Sfocls I Kanaka : common on 

 the banks of tlie Kala naddi near Lalguli, Yellapur taluka, Talbot, 1201 — JJistrib. 

 India (W. Peninsula, Ciiittagong, Tenasserim). 



' 15. Crotalaria linifolia, Zujn./. /SitpjaZ. (1781) p. 322. SufEruti- 

 cose, 9-20 in. high, usually much-branched; branches terete, clothed 

 with appressed silky hairs. Leaves 1-2 by :f-i in., oblanceolate or 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, apiculate, densely silky with appressed 

 hairs beneath, more or less hairy above, base subcuneate ; petioles very 

 short, silky; stipules 0. Flowers in terminal elongate silky '6-20- 

 flowered racemes reaching 1 ft. long ; pedicels j^^-g in. long ; bracts 

 and bracteoles subulate. Calyx densely silky ; the 2 upper segments 

 connate except at the very apex, forming a broadly ovate upper lip 

 ^ by i in., the 3 lower segments triangular, acuminate. Corolla scarcely 

 longer than the calyx ; standard oblong, rounded, truncate or sometimes 

 slightly emarginate, with a very few minute hairs at the back below the apex. 

 Pods ovoid-oblong, sessile, as long as the calyx, obliquely truncate at 

 the apex, glabrous, black when ripe. Seeds 4-10. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 72- 

 Grab. Cat. p. 45 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 56 : Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 13 • 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1S97) p. 420. C. sobolifera, Grab', 

 in Wall. Cat. 5420 a. — Flowers : Sept. 



