enump:ration op Philippine leguminosae. 59 



SOJfl. Negros, For. Bur. 5612 Everett. Jolo, Williams 3118. Mindanao, 

 District of Davao, Copeland 1322. 



Native names: Tamhalisa (Negros, Masbate, Mindoro, Tayabas) ; capon (Bata- 

 nes Islands) ; sandalaitan (Tayabas) ; cabaicubai, ex Blanco. 



Throughout the Philippines along the seashore; widely distributed in the 

 tropics of the 'world. 



32. CROTALARIA Linn. 

 Leaves simple. 



Pod not longer than the calyx, which is shaggily pubescent with long, soft, 

 brown hairs ; leaves linear, 5 to 15 cm long. 



Plowers blue, sessile or subsessile 1. C. sessiliflora 



Flowers yellow, their pedicels stout, 5 to S mm long 2. C. calijcina 



Pod as long as the calyx or sometimes slightly exceeding it, turgid, ovoid. 

 (Calyx pubescent with short, appressed, gray or brown hairs; leaves linear 



or linear-oblong, usually less than 6 cm long) 3. C. linifolia 



Pod exserted, one-half to many times longer than the calyx, oblong. 

 Pods small, about 1 cm long, less than twice as long as the calyx. 



Leaves linear to oblong; steins, leaves and calyces pubescent with short, 



appressed hairs; stipules none 4. C. albida 



Leaves orbicular-ovate to elliptic;' stems, leaves and calyces pubescent 

 with long, soft, brown, spreading hairs ; stipules acicular. 



5. C. acicularis 

 Pods 2 cm long or more, twice to many times as long as the calyx. 

 Pods glabrous ; flowers yellow. 



Stems diffuse; racemes lateral 6. C. ferruginea 



Stems erect; racemes terminal. 



Leaves broad, rounded and refuse at the apex 7. C. retusa 



Leaves acute at the apex 8. C. assntnica 



Pods pubescent; flowers blue or yellow. 



Flowers yellow ; branches terete ; stipules none or minute ; leaves linear 



to oblong 9. C. ]uncea 



FloAvers blue ; branches prominently angled ; stipules large, persistent, 



semilunar; leaves ovate 10. C. verrucosa 



Leaves compound. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate. 



Pedicels 5 mm long or less. 



Inflorescence mostly terminal, the racemes elongated; leaflets elliptic- 

 obovate or obovate, broad at the apex. 

 Leaflets refuse, and usually with a small niucro at the apex; calyx- 

 segments pale-greenish when dry; pods glabrous or nearly so. 



II. C. saltiana 

 Leaflets manifestly apiculate-aciiminate at the apex, not refuse; calj^- 



segments brownish-purple when dry; pods hirsute 12. C.incana 



Inflorescence mostly axillary, the racemes rather short; leaflets gradually 

 narrowed to the slender, acute or acuminate apex; pods denselj' 



pubescent 13. C. bracteata 



Pedicels 1.5 mm long, bibracteolate below the middle with very slender, 4 to 

 5 mm long bractedles; calyx-segments nearly free, narrowly-lanceolate, 



acuminate, 1 cm long, equaling the corolla 14. C. radiata 



Leaves usually 5-foliolate, varying from 3- to 7-foliolate; leaflets linear to 

 narrowly oblanceolate 15. C. quinquefolia 



