Crotalaria.'] L. LEGUMINOSJB. (J. G. Baker.) 81 



Prodr. 183. C. tomentosa, Rottl. in Wall. Cat. 5380. 0. pellita, Bert. : DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 128 ? C. Cainpbellii, Am. in Wight. Cat. 2316. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, Bottler, Heyne ; interior of BENGAL, Roxburgh. 



Shrubby, erect, much branched. Stems a foot or less high, densely coated, like the 

 leaves, with thick silky brown hairs. Leaves crowded, subsessile, subobtuse, thick, 

 cuneate at the base, f-1 in. long. Branches densely pubescent, generally short. Bracts 

 not abundant, small, falcate, silky on the back, black and viscous on the face. Calyx 

 % in. long; teeth long, linear, with reflexed edges. Corolla f in.; standard pointed, 

 silky on the back. Pod sessile, as long as the calyx, oblong, densely silky. 



62. C3. paniculata, W Hid. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 120; leaves small oblanceo- 

 late loosely silky, stipules linear, racemes panicled, bracts copious persistent 

 falcate linear-subulate, calyx-teeth narrow, corolla exserted, pod 1-2-seeded 

 scarcely exserted. Ilo.vb. Fl. Ind. iii. 274 ; Wall. Cat. 5379 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 183. C. chinensis, Lanik. Diet. ii. 195, not of Linn. Ononis glutinosa, Mart* 

 in DenTc. Acad. Mun. vi. 155. 



CARNATIC, near Vellore. DISTRIB. Java. 



Shrubby, 2-3 feet high, with very numerous stiff ascending branches, clothed with 

 loose brown silky hairs. Leaves 1-1^ in. long, obtuse, loosely silky, cuneate at the base, 

 nearly sessile ; stipules just like the very copious bracts, conspicuous, falcate, with 

 reflexed glandular margins. Branches short, with a few flowers near the end. Calyx 

 -| in. ; teeth long, silky on the back, lanceolate or linear with recurved viscous edges 

 like the bracts and bracteoles. Corolla ^ f in. ; standard very silky on the back. 

 Pod oblong, sessile, finely silky. 



GEOTJP 8. Tiifoliolatse liDispermse. Leaves 3-foliolate. Pod ob- 

 liquely subglobose, small, sessile, 2-seeded. Perennial herbs or undershrubs. 

 Oyrtolobus, JR. Ur. 



63. C. medicag-isiea, Lamk. Diet. ii. 201 ; herbaceous, branches slender 

 diffuse thinly clothed with adpressed silky hairs, petiole shorter than the small 

 oblanceolate leaflets, racemes 2-6-fiowered, corolla twice the calvx. W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 192 ; Uenth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 577 ; Thivaites Enum. 82 ; Boiss. 

 FL Orient, ii. 26. 0. procumbens, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 98 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 278, et 

 Wall. Cat. 5437, in part. 0. foliosa, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 131. 0. divaricata, 

 Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5436. 0. virgata, Mart. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 131. Indigofera 

 capitata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5490. 



Tropical region, from the WEST HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and BIRMA, ascending to 

 6000 ft. in Kashmir. DISTRIB. Malay isles, Afghanistan, China and Australia. \ 



A diffuse perennial, with slender much-branched stems, -|-1 ft. long, thinly silky 

 upwards. Stipules setaceous, very minute, deciduous ; leaflets ^-\ in. long, retuso 

 emarginate, glabrous above, obscurely silky below. Racemes copious, terminal and 

 leaf-opposed ; peduncles exceeding the leaves ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx thinly 

 silky, campaniilate, in. deep ; tith linear, exceeding the tube. Corolla yellow. Pod 

 ^ in. long, glabrescent. 



VAR. 1. hcrniarioides ; stems prostrate very slender, leaflets very small nearly 

 or quite as broad as long, peduncles short 1-3-flowered. C. herniarioides, W. & A. 

 Prodr. 192. 



VAR. 2. neglecta ; branches more robust and more ascending than in the type, 

 racemes 6-9-flowered, leaflets rather larger. C. neglecta, W. $~ A. Prodr. 192. C. 

 procumbens, Eoxb. $ Wall, ex partc. 



VAB. 3. luxurians ; stems much stronger. 2-3 ft. high, petioles reaching 1 in. 

 long, terminal_ leaflet |-1 in., racemes 6-12-flowered. C. luxurians, Bcnth. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. ii. 578. C. medicaginea, Hamilt. in Wall. Cat. 5434. 



64. C. Willdenoviana, DC. Prodr. ii. 134 5 herbaceous or sunruticose, 

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