Grotalaria.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 85 



laxly 10-20-flowered, reaching ^ ft. long; tracts persistent, as long as the pedicels. 

 Calyx campmulate, subglabrous, -i in. long; teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. 

 Corolla glabrous, twice the calyx. 'Pod oblong, glabrous, distinctly stalked, 1^-2 in. 

 by 2_i j n>j 30-40-seeded. C. heterophylla, L. DC. Prodr. ii. 131, is a trifoliolate 

 form. 



76. C. G-raliamiana, W. $ A. Prodr. 194 ; shrubby, branches and leaves 

 below densely clothed with adpressed silky hairs, leaflets oblanceolate, bracts 

 linear thinly silky, lower pedicels as long as the calyx. 0. digitate, Wight in 

 Watt. Cat. 5430, nan Hook. 



CARNATIC ; Pulney hills at 4000 ft. 



Branches firm, elongated, angular, persistently silky. Stiptiles linear, reflexed, 

 persistent ; petiole reaching 3-4 in., silky like the branches ; leaflets thicker than in. 

 C. quinqucfolia, 2-3 in. long, often 7, glabrous above, obtuse. Racemes closely 12-30- 

 flowered, ^ ^ ft. ; bracts ^-f in., acuminate, reflexed, persistent. Calyx just like that 

 ot' C. quinquefolia. Corolla yellow, glabrous, half as long again as the calyx. Pod 

 linear-oblong, 1^2 in. long, distinctly stalked. 



77. C. dig" it at a, Hook. JBot. Misc. ii. 354, suppl. t. 16 (C. quinquefolia) ; 

 shrubby, branches and leaves on both sides clothed with loose soft tomentum, 

 leaflets obovate-cuneate, bracts lanceolate tonientose, pedicels twice the calyx. 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 194, non Wicjht in Wall. Cat. 5430. 



CARNATIC ; Madura hills, Wight. 



A low shrub ; the whole plant, except calyx and corolla, clothed with loose 

 soft pale brown velvety tomentum. Stipules % in. long, linear-setaceous, reflexed, 

 persistent ; petiole 2-3 in. ; leaflets 3-5, thick and soft, cuneate in the lower half, 

 very obtuse, the end one reaching 2^3 in. long, |-1 in. broad, the outermost, sometimes 

 unequal- sided. Racemes terminal and lateral, short-peduncled, closely 12-20- 

 Tiowered ; bracts lanceolate acuminate, densely velvety, patent, persistent. Calyx 

 glabrous, -f-f in. long ; tseth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla yellow, gla- 

 brous, 1 in. long. Pod linear-oblong, 2-2|- in. long. 



C. !-:i.upTicA."7?0.r/j. in Wall. Cat. 5433 (C. Vachellii, H. $ A.\ and C. VASCULOSA, 

 Grali. iii Wall. Cat. 5-L27, have no claim to rank as Indian species, having been in- 

 troduced to the Calcutta Garden, the former from China, and the latter from 

 Mauritius. 



9. OZONES, Linn. 



Undershrubs or herbs, often viscid. Leaves with pinnately 3-folio'late toothed 

 leaflets. Calyx-tube canipanulate ; teeth long, subequal. Petals clawed ; 

 standard roundish; wings obovate-oblong ; keel incurved, acute. Stamens 

 monadelphous, the alternate filaments dilated at the apex ; anthers dimorphous. 

 Ovary in our plant subsessile, few-ovuled ; style filiform, abruptly incurved, 

 stigma minute oblique. Pod oblong, turgid, continuous within. DJSTKIB. 

 Species 60, mainly Mediterranean and European. 



1. O. Iiircina, Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 93 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, ii. 56. O. 

 altissima, Lam. Diet. i. 506; DC. Prodr. ii. 162. 0. arvensis, Linn. herb, in 

 part. 0. procurrens, Senth. in Royle 111. 197. 



TEMPERATE WEST HIMALAYA; TIBET and KASHMIR, alt. 5-7000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Orient, West Siberia, Europe. 



An under shrub, with ascending unarmed pubescent stems. Stipules large, leafy, 

 adnate to the short petioles ; leaflets oblong, obtuse. Flowers reddish, iu pairs at the 

 axils of the leaves, forming a close leafy raceme at the end of the branches. Calyx 

 | in. ; teeth linear, exceeding the tube. Pod oblong, downy, not exserted, 2-3-seeded. 



