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4. 0. Sericea. Stem angled, stipules and bracts large, 

 leafy, leaves silky beneath, larger than C. retusa, flowers not 

 so large. 



Along the B. B. & C. I. Railway line at the end of the rains. 

 Pasture grounds in Bombay (D.). 



5. C. Leschenaultii, a very handsome tall shrub, mostly 

 smooth, leaves narrow, obovate, silky beneath, stipules minute, 

 racemes and flowers large, bracts small half way up the pedicel, 

 pod like the two last. Dingala, Dayali. 



Matheran and the Ghauts, common. 



6. C. verrucosa. A stout herbaceous much-branched plant, 

 smooth, with square and winged stems and branches, leaves 

 broad ovate, narrow at the base, stipules half-moon shape, 

 flowers pale blue, bracts subulate, pod nearly cylindric, light- 

 brown. Tirat. 



Very common on the sandy seashore, and easily known by the 

 colour of the flowers. //. gives it a wide range in India, and makes 

 the flowers yellow and white, as well as blue. 



7. C. juncea. Sun hemp. A tall erect branched shrub, 

 shining and silky, leaves linear or oblong, racemes very long, 

 calyx densely covered with rusty hairs, pod sessile, oblong, 

 broader upwards, many-seeded. San, tag. 



Commonly cultivated for the fibre. " (Near Chittagong) Fields 

 of puppy and san formed the most beautiful crops, the latter 4 to 6 

 feet high, bearing masses of laburnum-like flowers." Hooker's 

 Himalayan Journals. 



8. C. orixensis, a procumbent hairy herb, leaflets 3 lanceolate, 

 ovate, or obovate, flowers small long-stalked, bracts cordate, 

 pod short, cylindric smooth. 



Konkan, Deccan, and Guzerat, but not common, I think. 



9. C. notonia. (C. rostrata, D.) Shrubby, rigid, much- 

 branched with much fine short hair on it, leaflets obovate or 

 obcordate, small, racemes short terminal, pod roundish ovate, 

 2-seeded with reflexed beak. Kulai. 



Konkan, Guzerat, Kattywar, Cutch. 



H's only habi'at for this is Nilgherry and Pulney Mountains, but 

 I believe there is no doubt that it is D.'s plant. 



The following are less common. When not otherwise stated the 

 leaves are oblong, very frequently broader upwards. 



* 0. Burhia, a low under shrub with close entangled woody 

 branches, leaves rigid, corolla with red veins. Cambay (D), Cutch 



