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126; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 273; Wall. Cat. 5406; W. & A. Prodr. 186; 

 Miq. Fior. Ind. Bat. I, 330 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 75. Q. spectahiUs 

 Roth, Nov. Sp. 341 ; DC. Prodr. II, 125. 0. macrophylla Weinm. Syll. 

 II, 26. C. cuneifolia Schrank, Syll. II, 78. 



Malay Peninsula ; Malacca, Grifith. Andamans ; Table Island, 

 Pram ! Dlstrib. India and Indo-China. 



Veiy like the preceding, but easily distinguished, even ia those cases where the 

 foliage is similar, by the large stipules and bracts. 



7. Crotalaria albida Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Sp. PI. 333. An 

 nndersbrnb 1-2 feet high witli numerous firm slender terete obscurely 

 silky branches. Leaves simple linear or oblanceolate obtuse firm shin- 

 ing gland-dotted glabrescent above, thinly silky beneath, 1-2 in. long 

 •2-'25 in. wide, petiole '1 in., stipules 0. Flowers in terminal, or rarely 

 lateral, laxly 6-20-fld. racemes, 2-4 in. long ; bracts linear 'OS-'l in. 

 long ; pedicels •15-*2 in. long slender adpressed-puberulous. Calyx 

 turbinate "25 in. long, in fruit '35 in. long, thinly silky ; teeth long the 

 3 lower linear acumiuate, the 2 upper broader often subobtuse. Corolla 

 pale yellow glabrous -3 in. long. Pod glabrous sessile, oblong-cylindric 

 •5-'6 in. long, lialf as long again to twice as long as calyx ; seeds 6-J2. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 189 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II. 71. G. montanaUoxh. 

 Hort. Beng. 54 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 265 ; W. & A. Prodr. 182. C. scojparia 

 Wall. Cat. 5418. C. parva Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5402. C. punctata Grab, 

 in Wall. Cat. 5401 A, 5401 C. C. tennis Wall. Cat. 5403. 



Selangor ; roadsides at Kwala, Ridley 7293 ! Distkib. Throughout 

 South Eastern Asia. 



A species perhaps only recently introduced to the Malay Peninsula from India ; 

 in India and Indo-Chiua the plant is very common in grassy places. 



8. Crotalaria verrucosa Linn. Sp. PI. 715. A woody herb 2-3 

 feet high with many angular branches puberulous at first but soon 

 glabrescent. Leaves 2-6 in. long, simple short petioled, thin, obscurely 

 downy beneath, ovate, obtuse or occasionally acute at apex, deltoid at 

 base ; stipules moderately large leafy semilunate. Racemes terminal and 

 lateral, about 6 in. long, rather closely 12-20-fld., bracts linear minute, 

 pedicels about as long as calyx. Calyx 3 in. long, obscurely downy, 

 tube short campanulate, half the length of lanceolate teeth. Corolla '75 

 in. long, exserted, usually white and blue, often white, occasionally 

 yellow. Pods faintly hirsute, oblong, 1-1*5 in. long, distinctly stalked, 

 10-15-seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 125 ; Bot, Mag. t. 3034 ; Wall. Cat. 5392 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 187 ; Wight Ic. t. 200 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 331 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 77. C. angulosa Lamk. Encyc. Meth. II, 

 197; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 273. G. ccerulea Jacq. Ic. t. 144. G, 

 acuminata G. Don., Diet. II, 134. — Rheede, Hort. Malab. IX, t. 29. 



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