298 XLVIII. LEGUMTXOS^. 



I have examined many living specimens in which there were only 

 4 seeds. 



KoNKAN : Sfocisl Ueccan : Foona, Cooke I, Woodrow I ; Khc.d, Kanifkarl; Khan- 

 dala, Graham. Gujarat : Surat, Balzell ^- Gibson. — Distrib. E. tropical regions. 



16. Crotalaria calycina, Schranl; PI. liar. Monac. (1819) t. 12. 

 An erect herb 1-2 ft. high ; stem simple or branched, densely clothed 

 with appressed silky hairs. Leaves variable, dimorphous, in one form 

 narrow-linear, acute, reaching 5-6 in. long, in the other and more common 

 form lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, I5-35 by 4-g in., mucroiiate, glabrous 

 or nearly so above, more or less silky with appressed hairs beneath, base 

 acute; petioles ^V^yVin. long ; stipules minute, subulate, hairy. Plowers 

 large, in terminal 2-12-flo\vered racemes ; pedicels stout, | in. long, 

 deflexed in fruit ; bracts and bracteoles large, foliaceous, lanceolate, very 

 acute, shaggy with long hair. Calyx |-1 in. long, densely clothed with 

 long fulvous persistent hairs ; lower teeth lanceolate, acuminate, the 

 upper obovate-oblong, |-| in. wide. Corolla pale yellow, shorter thau 

 the calyx ; standard obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex and with a 

 small tuft of long hairs at the back. Pods sessile, shorter rhan the calyx, 

 glabrous, dark brown. Seeds 20-30. il. B. I. v. 2, p. 72; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 2, p. 14; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 420. 

 C. anihylloides, Don, Prodr. p. 241; Grab. Cat. p. 44 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 54 (not of Lamk.). — Flowers : Oct. 



Pretty common iu tlie rains, Graham. Konkan : StocJd^l; S. Ivonkan, Dahfll <f 

 Gibson. Deccan : Poona, Woodrow\; Soos, Pooua CoUectorate, Uhival — Distrib. 

 E. tropical regions, Trojiical Africa. 



17. Crotalaria lutescens, Dah. in JJook. Kew Journ. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 34. Annual, erect, l-JJ ft. high, sparingly branched; branches terete or 

 obscurely angled, striate, glabrous. Leaves membranous, pale, subsessile, 

 variable, in one form reaching 8 in. long by ^-^ in. in breadth, linear, 

 in another 3-5 by |-| in., elliptic dauceolate, all acute (rarely rounded) 

 at (he apex, apiciilate, glabrous except the young leaves; stipules 0. 

 Flowers distant, in long slender hix G-lS-flowered racemes; pedicels 

 I in. long, slender; bracts and bracteoles small, subulate, persistent. 

 Calyx glabrous outside, about gin. long; upper teeth connate at the 

 base only, the 3 lower teeth connate for about half their length, all 

 linear, very acute. Corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx ; standard 

 1 in. long, conspicuously veined, ovate-oblong, acute, reflexed in fioweriiig; 

 keel with a hairy line on its back. Pods quite glabrous, cylindric, oblong, 

 1-1 2 in. long. Seeds numerous. — Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 74; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 420. G. ^pi'duncularis, Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 55 {not of Graham). — Flowers : Aug. -Oct. 



KoNKAV: Lati'l, Sfocks\, Dal sell \\ Vingorla, Bulzcll if Gihsnn\ Mai wan, BaLrll. 

 S. M. (Joi'NTRY : Ca^ttlcrock, abundant, Cooke ! Ka.vaua : on tlio Cili;l(.s near tlie Yena 

 temple (N. Kaniira), Talbot, 28U I — Distrib. Apparently cndcinic. 



18. Crotalaria retusa, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 715. A robust 

 undei'shrub 2-4 ft. high ; branches striate, glabrous or ap|)ressedly 

 pubescent. Leaves \]^-'6^, by |--^ in. ,oblanceolate-oblong. obtuse or retuse, 

 sometimes mucronate, rarely subacute, glabrous above, silky-pubescent 

 beneath, base cuneate ; petioles very short ; stipules subulate. Flowers 

 numerous, large aud showy, in erect terminal racemes G-12 in. long; 



