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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



4. C. J'crruginea. 



5. 



7. 



8. 



C. retusa. 

 C. sericea. 

 C. alhida. 

 C. verrucosa. 



Pods much longer than the calyx : — 

 Pods glabrous, flowers yellow : — 

 Stems diffuse, racemes lateral 

 Stems erect, racemes terminal : — 



Branches stout striated, glabrous or nearly so ; 

 leaves stipellate :— 

 Leaves obtuse or retuse, bracts and stipules 

 small subulate 



Leaves acute, bracts and stipules large acute 

 aud leafy ... 

 Branches slender terete > densely silky; leaves 

 exstipellate ... 

 Pods hirsnte, flowers usually blue, racemes lateral 

 as well as terminal 

 Leaves compound : — 

 Leaves 3'foliolate : — 



Pods small, obliquely subglobose, very few-seeded 



(hirsute) 



Pods large, cylindric, many-seeded : — 



Pods hirsute (narrowly cylindric almost sessile) ... 

 Pods glabrous : — 



Pods narrowly cylindric, almost sessile 

 Pods oblong, supported on a long gynophore 

 Leaves usually 5-foliolate (at times 3-, 4-, or even 6-7- 

 foliolate 



1. Crotalaeia alata Ham. in "Roxb. Hort. Beng. 98. A suberect 

 undershrub 1-2 feet high ; stem and leaves below clothed with short 

 silky pubescence. Leaves 1-3 in. long, simple, oblong-ovate or obovate, 

 subacute or obtuse, membranous, the stipules with lanceolate-dentate 

 points forming decurrent wings on the stem for nearly the whole length 

 of the nodes. Bacemes 2-3-fld., on elongated often leafy lateral pe- 

 duncles ; bracts small, persistent, ovate, acuminate. Calyx densely silky, 

 •35 in. long, tube campanulate, bracteolate. Corolla pale-yellow hardly 

 exserted. Pod distinctly stalked 1*25-1 75 in. long, linear-oblong, 

 glabrous, 30-40-seeded. Don, Prodr. 241 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 274 ; 

 DC. Proir. II 124; Wall. Cat. 5356; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. II, 

 478 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 329 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 69. C. 

 sagitticaulis Wall. Cat. 5357. C. bialata Koxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 274. 



Singapore; Chaugi, Hullett ! Ridley! Distrib. Himalaya; Indo- 

 China ; Malay Islands. 



2. Crotalaria sessiltflora Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1004. A rigid 

 erect annual 1-2 feet high, simple or sparingly fastigiately branched, 

 stem and leaves below shortly silky. Leaves 2-6 in. long, simple linear 

 or lanceolate narrowed to both ends thickly herbaceous, quite glabrous 

 above, the stipules setaceous very small. Bacemes 1-8 in. long, 5-20- 



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