74 "L. LEGUMINOS^E. (J. G. Baker.) [Crotalaria. 



WESTEEN PENINSULA, Stocks, Beddome. CHITTAGONG, Hook. fil. $ Thomson. TE- 

 NASSERIM, Griffith. 



Stems 1-2 ft. high, simple or with many subpatent or arcuate-ascending branches. 

 Leaves membranous, 2-3 inches, cuneate in lower third, thinly silky above, pale 

 and densely silky beneath ; stipules minute, setaceous. Heads round or oblong, mostly 

 with a leaf just beneath ; bracts and bracteoles large, persistent, ovate-acuminate. Calyx 

 % in. deep ; pubescence long, pale brown, silky, very dense ; teeth linear or lanceolate. 

 Corolla glabrous, as long as calyx. Pod sessile, glabrous, 6-8-see(led. 



33. C. capitata, Benth. MSS. ; shrubby, finely silky, leaves oblanceolate 

 subacute, flowers 6-20 in dense terminal heads, calyx middle-sized, teeth all 

 long, upper broad subacute, pod oblong included. 



KHASIA MTS., 5-7000 ft, Hook. fil. and Thomson, Lobb, Simons. 



Branches csespitose from a perennial rootstock, 1-1 ft. long, slender, suberect, 

 mostly simple, clothed with short silky pubescence. Leaves firm, cuneate in the 

 lower half, 1-1^ in., green, glabrous above, densely shortly silky below ; stipules 

 0. Heads round or oblong, 1-2 in. long; bracts and bracteoles small, linear, persistent. 

 Calyx ^ in. deep ; the vestiture and shape of teeth as in C. sessiliflora. Corolla deep 

 violet-blue, glabrous, as long as the calyx. Pod sessile, glabrous, not seen mature. 



34. C. priestleyoides, Benth. MSS. ; shrubby, laxly silky, leaves ob- 

 lanceolate-oblong subacute, flowers few in dense terminal heads, calyx middle- 

 sized shaggy, teeth all long, upper lanceolate acute, pod oblong included. 



CONCAN, Law, Stocks ; ANAMALLAYS, Beddome. 



A low undershrub with long ascending branches, densely clothed with moderately 

 long brown silky hairs. Leaves firm, subsessile, ^-1 in., glabrescent above, thinly 

 shaggy beneath, base rather rounded ; stipules 0. Heads 4-8-flowered ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, persistent as the calyx. Calyx -| in. long, as densely shaggy as in 

 C. calycina ; upper teeth ^- in. broad, lower linear. Corolla glabrous, as long as the 

 calyx. Pod sessile, glabrous, 10-15-seeded. 



SECT. V. drlaucee, Benth. Erect herbs or shrubs, glabrous throughout. 

 Stipules or very minute deciduous. Racemes terminal. 



35. C. lutescens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 34 ; herbaceous, bracts 

 linear very minute, calyx-teeth linear. C. peduncularis, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flor. 55, not of Grah. 



CONCAN, plains, Law, Dalzell. 



Stems erect, slender 1-3 ft. high. Leaves- membranous, pale, nearly sessile, varying 

 from oblong obttTse to linear acute, reaching 4-6 in. Raceme laxly 6-15-flowered; 

 pedicels cernuous finally |-| in. long. Calyx | in. ; tube very short. . Corolla 

 yellow, twice the calyx ; standard ovate, conspicuously veined. Pod 1-1^ in. long ; 

 gynophore finally equalling calyx. 



36. C. neriifolia, Wall. Otf. 5362; shrubby, bracts linear very minute, 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 560. 



AVA ; mount Taong Dong, Wallich. 



A shrub with slender terete branches. Leaves membranous, pale, nearly sessile, 

 lanceolate, rather rounded at the base, subobtuse, 3-4 in. Racemes laxly 12-20- 

 flowered, reaching half a foot long ; pedicels slender, as long as calyx. Calyx | in. 

 long ; tube campanulate. Corolla nearly twice the calyx ; standard orbicular, obtuse. 

 Ovary linear, silky. P,od unknown. 



37. C. peduncularis, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5369; bracts large ovate 

 acuminate persistent, calyx-teeth lanceolate. W. fy A. Prodr. 186 ; Benth. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 480. C. elegans, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. iii. 178 ; Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t, 106. 



