XLVIII. Lr^GUMIN'OS.i:. 301 



yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 78 ; Beuth. in Hook. Loud. Joiirn. v. 2 (184U) 

 p. 560 ; Bor. Mag. t. 5974. — Flowers: ]S'ov.-Jai). 



Riire. Kanara : Kadgal (N. Kauara), Wnodrowl; Lalguli, near Yellapur, Talbot, 

 33 ! and 223 ! — Distrib. ludia (Kanara to Travanoore). 



23. Crotalaria juncea, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 714. Annua', 

 2-8 fr. high : branches numerous, ascending, slender, terete, striate, 

 silkv-pubeseent. Leaves 1-4 by ^-f in., linear or oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, apiculate, clothed on both sides with appressed silky shining 

 hairs, base usually acute ; petioles yq-j-^j in. long ; stipules or very 

 minute. Flowers large, in erect terminal and lateral 12-20-flowered 

 racemes oftfu reaching 1 ft. long ; pedicels g-j in. long, pubescent ; 

 bracts minute, linear-subulate ; bracteoles 2 beneath the calyx, minute, 

 linear-subulate. Calyx f in. long, clothed with fulvous hairs; teeth 

 linear-lanceolate, very deep. Corolla bright yellow, slightly ex.-erted ; 

 standard ovate-oblong, subacute. Pods l-l-j in. long, sessile, clothed 

 with short fulvous silky hair. Seeds 10-15. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 79. 



Doubtfully wild, but often found as an escape from cultivation. The plant is 

 cultivated throughout India, extensively so in the Bombay Presidency, for the' sake of 

 its fibre, which furnishes the S/mn Kemp of commeree and which is largely exported 

 from Bombay. Consult Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 695, where will be found an 

 exhaustive description of the mode of cultivation of the plant and of the extraction 

 and uses of its fibre. — Distrib. Malay islands, Australia. 



24. Crotalaria madurensis, Wiglit, in Wall. Cat. (1828) 5376. 

 A much-branehed erect undershrub; branches terete, clothed M'ith short 

 yt'llowish-brown silky hairs. Leaves l^-Sg by 1-2 in., ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse (rarely subacute), mucronate or not, closely covered with shining 

 yellowish-brown silky hairs, base usually rounded ; main nerves numerous, 

 conspicuous ; petioles g in. long, densely silky ; stipules 0. Flowers 

 often large and showy, more than twice as long as the calyx, in panicled 

 racemes ; bracts and bracteoles -j^— 1% in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate. Calyx g-| in. long, densely silky, deeply bilabiate ; tube 

 short ; the 2 upper teeth triangular-actite, divaricate, scarcely connate 

 at the very base ; the 3 lower about half as broad as the upper, linear- 

 lanceolate, very acute, connate for about one-third of their length. 

 Corolla yellow, exserted ; standard orbicular, slightly mucronate, silky 

 on the back ; wings often rugose or presenting a honeycombed appear- 

 ance on the upper side near the base. Pods l-l-j in. long, shortly 

 stalked, sparsely hairy, turgid. Seeds 10-12. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 79 ; 

 Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 2 (1843) p. 563 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 421.— Flowers : Dec. 



Very rare in the Bombay Presidency. Kanara : Kumpta-Sirsi road, Woodrow. — 

 Distrib. India (Nilghiri and Madura hills). 



25. Crotalaria fulva, Rooeh. Fl. hid. v. 3 (1832) p. 266. An erect 

 much-branched undcrshrub 3-5 ft. high ; branches densely clothed with 

 short brown silky hairs. Leaves 2^-4 by |-1 in., oblong or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse or subacute, often apiculate, clothed on both sides with yellowish- 

 brown shining silky hairs, base cuneate ; petioles jV^^* ^'^^oi silky-hairy; 

 stipules or minute. Flowers numerous, in panicled racemes ; bract 1 

 beneath the pedicel, ovate, acute or acuminate, hairy, reflexed ; bracteoles 

 2 beneath the calyx, similar, but a little smaller, all persistent. Calyx 



