290 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Crotalaria. 



Branches and leaves softly yellow-pubescent ; leaflets obo- 

 vate, rounded at apex, up to 1*5 in. long ; flowers '4 in. long ; 



pods '3 in. in diam 66. Notonii. 



Diffuse woody almost spinescent shrubs; leaflets small ('15 in.), 

 obcordate ; racemes short, 2-6-flowered ; flowers 3 in. long, stan- 

 dard ovate; pod very small 67. rigida. 



Seeds many : 



Pod short, -5-'7 in. long, stalked ; seeds 8-11 ; leaflets obovate : 

 Flowers small, "2 in. long, keel shortly beaked, rounded at 

 base; bracts ovate, acuminate, reflexed; leaflets all equal or 

 nearly so ; pods cylindric, obtuse at both ends, glabrous, 



stalk '2 in 68. orixensis. 



Flowers medium-sized, "5-*7 in. long, keel long-beaked, narrow ; 

 bracts minute, setaceous ; mid-leaflet larger than the side ones ; 

 pods oblong, narrowed at both ends, acute and beaked at apex, 



minutely puberulous, stalk '25 in 69. laevigata. 



Pod 1 in. or more long, stalked, seeds more than 10 ; leaflets 

 usually obovate ; bracts small : 



Stalk of pod short, the pods deflexed ; flowers medium-sized 

 with prominent curved keel, in elongate stiff terminal 

 racemes : 



Pod and its stalk 1 in. long, clavate, recurved, minutely 

 silky -pubescent, 10-12-seeded ; leaflets thick, rather fleshy, 



emarginate, up to 1 '25 in. long 70. clavata. 



Pod and its stalk 1-5-2 in. long, cylindric-falcate, recurved, 

 puberulous when young, at length glabrous, many- seeded ; 

 leaflets membranous, obovate-emarginate or ov r ate-acute, 



mucronate, up to 4 in. long 71. striata. 



Stalk of pod about 1 in. long, the pod cylindric, glabrous, 1-5-2 in. 

 long, 20-30-seeded ; flowers very large with prominent incurved 

 keels, in lax racemes; leaflets membranous, 1-2 in. long 



72. laburnifolia. 

 Leaves usually 5-, sometimes 3-7-foliolate ; pods large, much inflated, 



hooked at apex, glabrous Multifoliolatae. 



Leaflets 5, linear-oblong or rarely narrow oblanceolate ; petioles 

 slender with slender narrowly lanceolate stipules ; flowers '5 in. 

 long in slender erect terminal racemes, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 reflexed, pedicels -2 in. ; pods more or less acute at apex, 2-2'5 in. 



long by 1 in. broad 73. quinquefolia. 



Leaflets 5-7, obovate ; petioles long, stout : 



Leaflets glabrous above, appressed silky beneath ; stipules and 

 bracts slender, lanceolate, reflexed; flowers *7 in. long, closely 



