Crotalaria.'] L. LEGUMINOSJJ. (J. G. Baker.) 79 



bracts minute, linear. Calyx f-1 in. long, densely brown-velvety ; teeth very long, 

 linear or lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla lemon-yellow, glabrous, little exserted. Pod 

 l-2 in. long, densely persistently dark-brown and velvety, 12-20-seeded. 



54. C?. jimcea, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 125; branches terete multisulcate, 

 stipules or minute subulate, leaves linear or oblong rather obtuse, racf 

 lateral and terminal not panicled, pod oblong sessile velvety twice the cJ 

 Sot. May. t. 400 ; Roxb. Cor. PL t. 193 ; Fl Ind. iii. 259 ; Wall. Cat. 54( 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 185 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 54. 0. fenestrata, Sot. Mag. 

 t. 1933. 0. benghalensis, Lamk. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 125 : Wall. Cat. 5395. 0. 

 temrifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 263; DC. Prodr. ii. 126; Wall. Cat. 5368. 

 C. porrecta, Wall Cat. 5363. 0. viminea, Wall. Cat. 5397 B. 0. sericea, 

 Wittd. not ofRetz. Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 26. 



Plains from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON, but often planted for its fibre. BERMA, 

 Wallich ; PEGTT, McClelland. DISTRIB. Malay isles, Australia. 



A stiff shrub several feet high, with slender virgate rigid thinly silky branches. 

 Leaves rather distant, firm, linear or oblong, usually 1^-3 in., shining on both 

 sides with thin short brown silky hairs. Racemes loosely 12-20-flowered, reaching a 

 foot long ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^- % j n . long, densely clothed with ferru- 

 ginous velvety hairs ; teeth linear-lanceolate, very deep. Corolla bright yellow, 

 glabrous, slightly exserted. Pod 1-1^ in. long, clothed with short-spreading persistent 

 silky hairs, 10-15-seeded. Yields Sun fibre. 



55. C. obtecta, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5372 ; branches terete, stipules 

 or minute deciduous, leaves oblong 1 obtuse, racemes terminal and lateral not 

 panicled, pod stalked densely velvety twice the calyx. W. fy A. Prodr. 185 ; 

 Ic. t. 208 and 383. 0. tetragona, Watt. Cat. 5367 D. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Nilghiris and Cochin. 



A tall shrub, with curved woody branches densely clothed with short brown silky 

 hairs. Leaves short-stalked, coriaceous, 2-4-in., both sides more or less silky. 

 Racemes rather close, 12-20-flowered; bracts minute, lanceolate. Calyx f-1 in., 

 densely velvety, deeply bilabiate ; teeth linear. Corolla slightly exserted ; standard 

 silky on the back. Pod 1^-2 in. long, 10-12-seeded, densely coated with dark brown 

 velvety pubescence. 



VAR. 1. glabrescens ; branches and leaves glabrescent. C. glabrescens, Benth. 

 in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 563. Carnatic, near Courtallum, Wight. 



* * Flowers panicled. 



56. C. madurensis, Wight in Wall. Cat. 5376; leaves ovate-oblong 

 closely silky, stipules 0, racemes panicled, bracts round cuspidate subdeciduous, 

 calyx-teeth narrow, corolla exserted, pod many-seeded much exserted. W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 184 ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 563. C. candicans, W. Sf A. 

 Prodr. 184. 



NILGHIRIS and Madura hills, in the CARNATIC. 



A stiff erect undershrub, copiously paniculately branched. Branches clothed with 

 short dense brown silky hairs ^.Staves short-petioled, obtuse, subcoriaceous, broadly 

 rounded at base, 2-4 in., clothed on both sides with fine very short shining silky 

 hairs. Bracts fewer and more deciduous than in other panicled Eriocarpse. Calyx 

 in. deep, densely silky, deeply bilabiate ; teeth narrow, acuminate, two upper 

 lanceolate. Corolla | in. ; standard rather pointed, densely silky on the back. Pod 

 short-stalked, nearly glabrescent, 10-12-seeded, 1 in. long. 



57. C. subperfoliata, Wight in Wall. Cat. 5377 ; leaves oblong acute 

 closely silky, stipules 0, racemes panicled, bracts round spreading persistent, 



