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laxly silky with rusty hairs, '5 in. long, tube very short, upper teeth 

 lanceolate lower linear. Corolla yellow not exserted. Fod shortly 

 stalked 1-1*25 in. long glabrous 20-30-seeded. Benth. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. II, 476; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 68. G. canescens Wall. Cat. 

 5415. 0. crassifolia Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5416. G. leioloha Bartl. Ind. 

 Sem. Hort. Goett. 1837 ; Linnaea XII, Lifct. 80. G. pilosissima Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 327. 



Pahang ; Katepong Pekan, Ridley ! Distrib. India, Indo-China, 

 China; Malay Archipelago. 



Mr. Ridley has kindly sent the writer for inspection, from the Singapore 

 Herbarium, the only specimen of this species hitherto collected ia the Malay Penin- 

 sula. The plant is, however, quite common in Sumatra and Java and may yet be 

 found elsewhere in the Peninsula. 



5. Crotalaria retusa Linn. Sp. PI. 715. An erect robust under- 

 shrub 3-4 feet high, with stout striated glabrous branches. Leaves 

 1-5-3 in. long, simple, short-petioled, thickly herbaceous, glabrous above 

 puberulous beneath, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or oftener retuse, rare- 

 ly subacute at apex, cuneate at base, stipules subulate very small. 

 Uacemes terminal elongated 6-8 in. long laxly 12-20-fld., bracts and 

 bracteoles subulate, pedicels shorter than calyx. Galyx almost glabrous, 

 •35-'5 in., tube short campanulate, half the length of the lanceolate 

 teeth. Corolla 'S in. long, much exserted, yellow with purple tinge. 

 Pod glabrous linear-oblong, 1-1*5 in., distinctly stalked, 15-20-seeded. 

 DC Prodr. II, 125 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 272; Bot. Reg. t. 253; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2561 ; Wall. Cat. 5405 ; W. & A. Prodr. 187 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I 330 • Bak, in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 75. Tmpinus cochinchinen sis 

 Lour. Flor. Cochinch. 429 ; DC. Prodr. II, 410. Tandale-cotti Rheede, 

 Hort. Malab. IX, t. 25. . 



Malay Peninsula ; Malacca, Maingay ! Hervey ! Pahang, Ridley ! 

 Andamans ; Port Blair, very common ; having been introduced as a 

 plant of native gardens, it has now run wild throughout the settlement. 

 DiSTRTB. General in the tropics. 



6. Crotalaria sericea Retz, Obs. V, 25. A robust undershrub 

 3-4 feet high with stout striated almost glabrous branches. Leaves 2-6 

 in. Ion"-, simple, short petioled, thickly herbaceous, glabrous above, 

 finely silky beneath, oblong-oblanceolate acute or subacute at apex, 

 cuneate at base ; stipules large leafy persistent. Racemes terminal 

 elongated 10-12 in. long, laxly 20-50-ild., bracts ovate leafy persistent, 

 pedicels longer than calyx. Calyx almost glabrous '5 in. long, tube 

 short campanulate half the length of the lanceolate teeth. Corolla '8 in. 

 long, much exserted, yellow with purple tinge. Pod glabrous linear- 

 oblong 1-2 in. long, distinctly stalked 20-30-seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 



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