292 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Crotalaria. 



8. CROTALARIA BIFLORA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 66; W. & A. 190. 



Deccan and Carnatic, chiefly in open forest lands, up to 

 3,000 ft., westwards to the E. slopes of the W. Ghats. 

 A trailing annual. 



9. CROTALARIA GLOBOSA, W. & A. 190; F. B. I. ii. 66. 



Hills of the S. Carnatic, from Dindigal southwards. 



A trailing annual, scarcer than the former which it 



resembles. 



10. CROTALARIA FILIPES, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. (>{>. 



W. Coast, in S. Canara (Beddoine). 



A very slender trailer with small bifarious leaves and 



filiform peduncles. 



11. CROTALARIA PROSTRATA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 67 ; W. & A. 189. 



E. Coast, on pasture land, especially in N. Circars, but down 

 to Cape Comorin ; more scarce in Deccan and on W. Coast. 

 A somewhat shrubby perennial trailing herb. 



12. CROTALARIA HUMIFUSA, Grah. ; F. B. I. ii. 67. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats, in Wynaad, Anamalais and 

 Travancore, in dry forest undergrowth, up to 3,000 ft. 



13. CROTALARIA ACICULARIS, Ham. ; F. B. I. ii. 68. 



N. Circars, in Ganjam, in dry forest lands; W. Ghats, in 

 the Anamalai Hills and Travancore, up to 3,000 ft. 



14. CROTALARIA FERRUGINEA, Grah.; F. B. I. ii. 68. C. evolvu- 

 loides, Wt. Ic. 31, probably. 



W. Coast, in S. Canara (Beddome). 



15. CROTALARIA EVOLVULOIDES, Wt. ; F. B. I. ii. 68 ; W. & A. 

 188, excl. syn. 



Carnatic, in Salem and Coimbatore Districts ; W. Ghats, 

 in Nilgiris, Malabar, Pulneys and Travancore, up to 

 5,000 ft., in dry localities. 



Yar. acutifolia, Gamble. Leaves elliptic, acute, nmcronate, 

 rather prominently nerved. 



W. Ghats, in S.-E. Wynaad. 



16. CROTALARIA FYSONII, Dunn in Kew Bull. 1914, 26 ; Fyson 

 Hillt. Fl. 101, t. 74. 



W. Ghats, in grass or by roadsides on the downs in the 

 Pulney Hills, up to 7,000 ft., Anamalai Hills (Beddome). 

 A trailing perennial subshrubby herb. 

 Yar. glabra, Gamble. Leaves, flowers, and pod glabrous. 

 W. Ghats, on the Pulney Downs (Bourne). 



