Crotalaria.'] L. LEGUMINOSJS. (J. G. Baker.) 73 



Stems 1-2 ft. high, simple or with a few slender ascending branches clothed with 

 short adpressed silky hairs. Leaves moderately firm, usually 2-4 in., but in the linear 

 form 5-6 ic., usually acute, glabrous above, obscurely silky beneath ; stipules subu- 

 late, very minute, deciduous. Terminal racemes 2-12-flowered, rarely reaching ft. 

 long; bracts and bracteoles large, lanceolate. Calyx f- 1 in. long, persistently 

 densely clothed with long brown silky hairs ; lower teeth lanceolate-acuminate, upper 

 oblanceolate, f-^ in. broad. Corolla glabrous, pale yellow, shorter than the calyx. Pod 

 sessile, glabrous, -f in. long, 20-30-seeded. 



20. C. sessiliflora, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. ii. 129 ; annual, shortly silky, leaves 

 linear acute rarely lanceolate, flowers in elongated racemes rarely solitary from 

 leafy nodes, calyx middle-sized densely clothed with long silky hairs, teeth all 

 long, upper lanceolate acute, pod oblong as long as the calyx. Benth. in Hook. 

 Land. Journ. ii. 565. 0. anthylloides, Lam. ; Watt. Cat. 5366 A. in part, B. 0. 

 0. venusta, Wall. Cat. 5365. 0. nepalensis, Link Enum. ii. 228. 0. brevipes, 

 Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 44. 0. eriantha, Sieb. fy Zucc. Fl. Jap. 13. C. Old- 

 hami, Miq. Ann. Mus. Luff. Bat. iii. 42. 



UPPER PUNJAB and along the base of the Himalayas to ASSAM, ascending to 5,500 ft. 

 in KUMAON ; BIRMA, Wallich; PEGU, McLelland. DISTRIB. China, Philippines, 

 Japan. 



Steins 12 ft. high, simple or furnished with few or many ascending branches. 

 Leaves moderately firm, narrowed to both ends, 2-6 in., glabrous above, thinly 

 silky below ; stipules setaceous, very minute. Flowers deflexed, 2-20 to a raceme, 

 close; racemes reaching 6-9 in. long; bracts and bracteoles long, setaceous, persistent. 

 Calyx -| |- in. long, brown silky hairs long and dense, but not as much so as in caly- 

 cina ; teeth all acute, upper ^ in. broad. Corolla blue-white, glabrous, not exserted. 

 Pod glabrous, sessile, 10-15-seeded. 



30. C. chinensis, Linn. DC. Prodr. ii. 130 ; annual, laxly silky, leaves 

 linear or oblanceolate obtuse or subacute, flowers 3-6 densely capitate all termi- 

 nal, calyx middle-sized, teeth long upper lanceolate, pod oblong as long as 

 calyx. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 566 (not of Roxb.} 



UPPER G-ANGETIC PLAIN, CONCAN, MALABAR, PEGU, and TENASSERIM. DISTRIB. 

 Sumatra, Philippines, China. 



Stems 1-2 ft. high, usually with several stout ascending branches densely clothed 

 with long brown silky hairs. Leaves moderately firm, sparsely silky, 1-2 in., pale 

 below, base rather rounded ; stipules 0. Calyx f-^- in., densely laxly silky ; lower 

 teeth linear ; bracts and bracteoles linear, persistent. Corolla glabrous, not exserted. 

 Pod sessile, glabrous, 15-20-seeded. 



31. C. speciosa, Heyne ; DC. Prodr. ii. 129 ; shrubby, densely silky, leaves 

 linear-oblong obtuse, flowers 6-12 densely capitate all terminal, calyx middle- 

 sized, teeth all long narrow acuminate, pod oblong included. Benth. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. ii. 564. 0. cephalotes, Herb. Madr. in Wall. Cat. 5373. 



MYSORE, Heyne. 



Stems quite woody, with rigid erecto-patent branches, densely clothed with short 

 bright brown silky hairs. Leaves firm, l-l in., densely silky on both sides, 

 rounded at both ends; stipules subulate * very minute. Heads copious, round, terminal, 

 usually with a leaf just beneath ; bracts lanceolate, as long as calyx, persistent velvety. 

 Calyx ^ in. long, densely persistently velvety. Corolla as long as calyx, densely silky 

 on the outside. Pod sessile, glabrous, 10-12-seeded, much shorter than the calyx. 



32. C. dubia, Orah. in Wall. Cat. 5404; annual, shortly silky, leaves 

 obovate cuneate subacute, flowers 12-30 in dense terminal heads, calyx small 

 densely silky, teeth all long acuminate, pod oblong as long as calyx. Benth. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 568. 



