Crotalaria.] LEGUMINOSAE. 285 



umbels many- (6-8-) flowered, terminal or with 

 axillary flowers below the terminal vimbel also ; pod 

 25 in. in diam., globose, 6-8-seeded ..30. umbel! ata. 

 Flowers over '25 in. long-, in elongate terminal racemes ; 

 corolla equal to or slightly longer than calyx : 

 Leaves oblanceolate or linear, obtuse or retuse. 

 mucronate, 'l-'3 in. broad; flowers *3 in. long, in 

 slender racemes 4-6 in. or even more long; pod 

 ovoid-oblong, up to '3 in. long, 8-10-seeded 



31. linifolia. 



Leaves obovate, cuneate, emarginate, up to '6 in. 

 broad ; flowers '6 in. long, in strong racemes up to 

 9 in. long ; pod oblong, -5-'0 in. long, many- (up to 



25-) seeded 32. tecta. 



Upper calyx-lobes not connate or only connate below : 

 Pods longer than the calyx : 



Plants with long silky hairs, brown at any rato 

 when dry : 



Low suffruticose plants with ascending branches ; 

 racemes short, subcapitate, few-flowered ; flowers 

 4 in. long ; pod oblong, '5 in. by '3 in., seeds 15-20 ; 

 leaves oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, up to 2*5 in. 

 long, '7 in. broad, stipules or minute.. .33. hirta. 

 Erect suffruticose plants ; racemes long, with 

 distant flowers ; flowers '8 in. long ; pod obovoid, 

 1-1-2 in. by -5 in., seeds very many, more than 30 ; 

 leaves linear oblong, up to 3 in. long, - 4 in. broad, 



stipules linear, conspicuous 34. mysorensis. 



Plants with short appressed silky pubescence, grey 

 ' when dry ; stipules ; pods few-seeded, '4-'5 in. 

 long: 



Low diffuse undershrubs, branched from low 

 down ; flowers in racemes terminal on the 

 branches ; leaves thick, cuneate, obtuse or emar- 

 ginate, pellucid-punctate, grey-pubescent, '5-1 in. 

 long by 'l-'2 in. broad ; flowers '4 in. long 



35. albida. 



Erect subglabrous slender undershrubs ; flowers 

 in leafy panicles of racemes ; leaves membranous, 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, not conspicuously 

 pellucid-punctate, up to 3 in. long by '8 in. broad ; 

 flowers '3 in. long 36. epuncta t 



