280 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Rothia. 



A much branched annual with straight flat pods about 2 in. 

 long and small 3-foliolate leaves. 



2. Heylandia, DC. 



A prostrate herb. Leaves simple, alternate, entire ; stipules 0. 

 Flowers small, solitary, axillary. Calyx-tube turbinate ; teeth 

 lanceolate, 3 lower longer than the 2 subconnate upper. Corolla 

 yellow, much exserted ; standard orbicular with 2 basal scales at 

 the top of the short claw ; wings obovate-oblong ; keel petals 

 connate along the back, narrowed to an incurved beak. Stamens 

 inonadelphous ; ii laments united in a tube cleft above ; anthers 

 alternately short versatile and long basifixed. Ovary sessile. 

 2-ovuled ; style abruptly incurved at base, longitudinally bearded 

 above; stigma terminal. Pod flat, oblong, 1-2-seeded. Seeds 

 reniform on filiform fn nicies. 

 HEYLANDIA LATEBROSA, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 65 ; W. & A. 180. 



All dry Districts, on waste land and in open forest. 



A prostrate often very silky- hairy herb with small cordate - 



ovate leaves, pale yellow flowers and small slightly inflated 



pod. 



3. Crotalaria, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, or more or less herbaceous undershrubs. 

 Leaves simple or trifoliolate or sometimes 5-7-digitate ; with or 

 without stipules, the stipules sometimes decurrent in wings on 

 the branches. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, 

 rarely solitary, usually yellow but sometimes blue, often large and 

 showy. Calyx-tube short ; lobes linear or lanceolate, subequal or 

 more or less connate in 2 lips. Corolla equal to or exceeding the 

 calyx ; standard with a short claw and callus above it, usually 

 orbicular or ovate ; wings obovate or oblong, shorter than the 

 standard, clawed and usually with minute transverse folds ; keel 

 as long as the wings, its petals connate, much incurved, beaked. 

 Stamens monadelphous, connate in a sheath cleft above ; anthers 

 dimorphous, alternately short versatile with slender filaments and 

 long basifixed with flattened filaments. Geary sessile or stalked, 

 2-many-ovuled ; style long, abruptly incurved at the base, bearded 

 upwards ; stigma small, oblique. Pod sessile or stalked, usually 

 globose or oblong, turgid or inflated, continuous within. Seeds 

 usually many, rarely 1 or 2, without strophiole ; funicle filiform. 



