70 L. LEGUMraos-ffi. (J. G. Baker.) [Crotalaria. 



stalked. DC. Prodr. ii. 125 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 181 ; Wt. Ic. t. 885 ; Senth. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 478. C. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 5411. C. Wightiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 5358 JB. 



NILGHIBIS up to 4000 ft. 



A spreading shrub with stems -1 foot long, densely shortly grey-downy. Leaves 

 subsessile, rarely an inch long, dark green, always very obtuse, and densely clothed 

 with grey or when young with yellow-brown pubescence ; stipules passing suddenly 

 into a narrow wing from the spreading deltoid points. Racemes sparse, 1-4-flowered. 

 Bracts small, persistent, ovate ; bracteoles small, lanceolate, inserted above the base. 

 Calyx f-| in., densely silky. Corolla yellow, not exserted. Pod oblong, 1- l in. long, 

 glabrous, 20-30-seeded. 



VAK. 1. scabrella; stems stronger and more ascending, flowers rather larger, 

 pod more distinctly stalked. 0. scabrella, W. & A. Prodr. 181. NILGHIBIS and 

 CEYLON. 



VAR. 2. Wightiana; stems suberect much more robust than in the type, leaves 

 thinner more silky larger reachix) 2-3 in. long 1^-2 in. broad, corolla and calyx $-| in. 

 long, pod lf-2 in. long, 30-40-seeded. G. Wightiana, Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5358, A. ; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 181. NLLGHIRIS and CEYLON up to 6000 ft. 



SECT. IV. Calycinae, Benth. Copiously-branched diffuse annuals or low 

 shrubs with slender branches. Leaves simple, more or less hairy, stipules or 

 small not decurrent. Racemes all terminal or a few also lateral. Pods 

 glabrous or pubescent, exserted or included. 



* Pod decidedly exserted fropi the calyx. 



19. C. pusilla, Heyne ; DC. Prodr. ii. 128 ; annual, densely silky, stipules 

 0, leaves linear very small, racemes terminal and lateral laxly 3-6-flowered, 

 bracts minute lanceolate, pod silky sessile twice the calyx. Wall. Cat. 5396 ; W. 

 8f A. Prodr. 189. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Bombay to Courtallum. 



Stems under half a foot high, with copious ascending branches cloth ed^ with ad- 

 pressed brown silky hairs. Leaves subsessile, firm, obtuse, 3 f in. long, densely silky. 

 Racemes very copious, short-stalked, | 1 in. long. Calyx campanulate, silky ^ in. deep ; 

 teeth deep, all linear. Corolla yellow, scarce exserted, Pod in. long, thinly silky, 

 4-8-seeded. The smallest of all the species. 



20. C. hlrta, Wittd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 130; annual, finely hairy, stipules 0, 

 leaves small linear obtuse, racemes capitate 2-4-flowered, bracts lanceolate folia- 

 ceous, pod glabrous sessile twice calyx. Mart . in Munch. Denks. 6 1. F. ; W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 182 ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 567. 0. chinensis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 268 ; Wall. Cat. 5385, non Linn. C. pilosa, Roxb. in E. I. C. Mus. t. 370 ; 

 Rottl. Nova Act. 1808. 



DEKKAN, near Hydrabad. 



A diffuse annual with slender branches, thinly clothed with short spreading hairs. 

 Leaves short-stalked | | in., moderately close, rounded at the base. Flowers 

 crowded at the end of leafy branches ; pedicels very short. Calyx \ in., densely silky ; 

 teeth long, all linear, acuminate. Corolla scarce exserted. Pod oblong, 15-20-seeded. 

 Differs from chinensis by its small obtuse leaves and much shorter calyx. 



21r> C. mysorensis, Roth; DC. Prodr. ii. 126 ; annual, densely silky, sti- 

 pules linear persistent, leaves linear-oblong obtuse, racemes terminal and lateral 

 laxly 6-9-fluwered, bracts lanceolate foliaceous, }^od subsessile glabrous twice the 

 calyx. Wall Cat. 5361 ; W. # A. Prodr. 182. C. siipulacea, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 

 264. C. hirsute, Roxb. in E. I. C. Mus., t. 1595. 



TKOPICAL BEGION, all through India proper, ascending to 4000 ft. in KUMAON. 



