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Andamans ; very common from the Coco Group to Little Andaman ; 

 Barren Island. Nicobars ; common. Penang ; Wallich ! Curtis ! Pang- 

 KORE ; Scortechini ! Pahang ; Ridley ! UisiRiB. Cosmopolitan in the 

 tropics, 



2. Abrus pdlchellus Wall. Cat. 5819. A copiously branched 

 climber witli thin stems and slender glabrous or thinly silky branches. 

 Leaves 3-4 in. long ; leaflets equally pinnate in 12-16 opposite pairs, 

 membranous glabrous above thinly silky beneath, green deciduous, 

 ligulate oblong •75-l*25 in. long, •25-*35 in. -wide. Racemes many- 

 flowered, usually lax always long-peduncled, equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves ; rachis little thickened in fruit. Calyx '1 in. thinly silky. 

 Corolla '5 in. pink, or pale blue. Pod linear flat incurved 2-2'5 in. long, 

 '5 ill. wide, valves smooth thin, 8-12 seeded. Thwaites, Enum. PJ. 

 Zejl. 91 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 175. A., Imvigatus E. Mey. 

 Comm. I, 126 ; Harv. F\. Cap. II, 263. A. melanosjpermus Hassk. Cat. 

 Bog. 282 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 159. A. acutifolius Blume MSS. ex 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 160. 



AxDAMANS ; Coco Group, Prain ! Port Blair, common. Pi<:rak ; 

 Kunstler 1023 ! Scortechini 630 ! Distrib. S. Africa and S.-E. Asia. 



2. Crotalaria Linn. 

 Herbs or shrubs with simple or digitately 3-foliolate rarely 5-7- 

 foliolate leaves. Flowers often large and showy in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes. Calyx with short tube, and with lanceolate or linear 

 teeth free or somewhat connate in two lips. Corolla equalling or exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; standard rounded or ovate short-clawed; wings obovate 

 or oblong shorter than standard ; keel as long as wings, its petals united, 

 much incurved and beaked. Stameiis monadelphous in a sheath split 

 dorsally, anthers dimorphous, alternately on short filaments versatile and 

 on longer basifixed. Ovary sessile or, rarely, stipitate linear usually 

 many-ovuled ; style long, abruptly incurved at the base, bearded above, 

 stigma oblique small. Pod sessile or, rarely, supported on a gynophore 

 oblong or linear, straight, turgid or inflated, continuous wi^iiin, 2-co - 

 seeded. Species about 250, widespread in tropical and sub-tropical 

 regions. 



Leaves simple : — 



Stipules decurrenfc as a persistent wing to the stem ... 1. 0. alata. 



Stipules, if present, not decurrent : — 

 Pods not longer than the calyx :— » 



Flowers in elongated racemes, petals blue ; stipules 



minute ... ... ... ... 2. C. sesbilijlora 



Flowers in short fevv-fld. heads, petals pale yellow ; 



stipules ... .„ ... ... 3. G. chincnsis. 



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