66 v L. LEGUMINOS2E. (J. G. Baker.) [Crotalaria. 



1. C. Burhia, Hamilt. in Wall. Cat. 5386 ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 ii. 474; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 54. 



SCINDE and PUNJAB, in sandy plains, ascending to 4000 ft. CAMBAY, in the desert 

 region, Dalzell. DISTBIB. Afghanistan and Beloochistan. 



A low undershrub, with very numerous stiff erecto-patent branches, clothed with 

 fine pale tomentum. Spines none. Leaves scattered, deciduous, subsessile, oblong or 

 lanceolate, rigid, pale green, silky, \- 1|- in. long ; stipules 0. Flowers 6-12, in 

 elongated terminal racemes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate, very short. Calyx densely silky, 

 \- $ in. ; teeth long, lanceolate. Corolla yellow, scarce exserted. Pod oblong, 3-4- 

 seeded, rather longer than calyx. 



SECT. II. XHffusae, Benth. Copiously-branched herbs with flexuose trailing 

 steins. Leaves close, simple. Stipules or small, not decurrent. Racemes all 

 lateral, leaf-opposed, usually reduced to few flowers or one only. Pods glabrous 

 or downy. 



2. C, bifloira,, Linn.; pod S7ity:lol)ose finely nlky flexible 12-20-seeded. 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 127; W. $ A. Prodr. 100. Astragali biflorus, Linn. Mant. 

 273. 0. niunmuhria, Willd. Sj). PL iii. 979; j^euo. Fl. Ind. iii. 271; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 129 ; Wall. Cat. 5417 (ex parte). C. hirta, Roth Nov. Sp. 339. C. 

 Rothiana, DC. Prcdr. ii. 127. 0. Rothii, Spreng. Syst. iii. 237. Cicer num- 

 mulariasfolium, Lamk. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 354. 



Plains of the PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java. 



A silky trailing annual, with stems 1-1 -g- ft. long. Leaves close, subsessile, 

 densely silky, ovate or roundish, -| 1 in. long, obtuse, mucronate ; stipules minute, 

 usually 0. Pedicels 2-4 times leaves, 1 or closely 2-flowered. Calyx ^ in., densely 

 silky; teeth long, upper lanceolate, lower linear. Corolla yellow, scarcely exserted. 

 Pod compressible, f- in. long, short-stalked. 



3. C. globosa, W. fy A. Prodr. 190 ; pod subglobose finely silky hare 

 2-4 seeded. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 475. C. globulosa, Wight in WalL 

 Cat. 5412. 



CARNATIC, Dindygul hills and Courtallum, Wight, G. Thomson. 



Habit, vestiture, leaves, infloresence, calyx and corolla just as in C. biflora, but 

 pod smaller, not compressible, glabrescent before splitting, with seeds larger and much 

 fewer. 



4. C. filipes, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 475 ; finely silky, stipules 

 0, leaves cordate-oblong oblique, peduncles thread-like 1-3-flowered, bracts and 

 corolla very minute, pod oblong glabrous 8-10-seeded. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flora, 56. 



Plains of the west side of the WESTERN PENINSULA ; DEKKAN, Edgeworth. 



Stems very slender, -1 ft., clothed with fine spreading deciduous silky hairs. 

 Leaves pale, rigid, prominently veined, subsessile, obtuse, much more rounded on the 

 lower side. Peduncles copious, rigid, 3-6 times the leaves, glabrous ; flowers dis- 

 tant if more than one ; bracts persistent, reflexed. Calyx ~ in. long, finely silky ; 

 teeth long, all lanceolate. Corolla yellow, exserted ; standard erect, veined, round, 

 in. broad. Pod short-stalked, in. long. 



5. C. filiformis, Wall. Cat. 5389; subglabrous, stipules semilunate per- 

 sistent, leaves oblong, peduncles 1-2-flowered, bracts linear very minute, corolla 

 very small, pod linear-oblong glabrous 12-16-seeded. Benth. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. ii. 475. 



AVA ; Mount Prome, Wallich. 



Stems slender, copiously branched, thinly silky when young. Leaves short-stalked, 

 membranous, pale, subacute, 1-2 in. long, glaucous below ; stipules small, spreading, 



