Crotalaria.'] LEGUMIN08AE. 299 



A very handsome viscous shrub with bright yellow flowers 

 and conspicuous reflexed bracts on the elongated branches 

 of the panicles. 



60. CROTALARIA LUNULATA, Heyne; F. B. I. ii. 80; W. & A. 

 183 ; Wt. Ic. t. 480. 



Deccan, Muchukota in Anantapur; Carnatic,, Hills of 

 Chingleput, Tanjore. 



An erect undershrub, very sticky; flowers yellow; in 

 elongate panicle-branches. 



61. CROTALARIA PANICULATA, Willd. ; F. B. I. ii. 81; W. & A. 

 183. 



Deccan, dry tracts in Cuddapah, and South to Salem ; 



old forts in Bellary, Kistna and Guntur; Carnatic, coast 



region from Madras southwards. 



A sticky, bad-smelling, erect undershrub with many linear 



bracts and stipules and yellow flowers. 



Sometimes the bracts below the flowering ones are in threes, 



the middle one ovate acuminate, the others linear, and 



the stipules are often in fascicles. The tonientum is grey 



at first but changes on drying. 



62. CROTALARIA RAMOSISSIMA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 80; W. & A. 

 183. 



Deccan, in dry stony lands from the Godavari to Cuddapah 

 and Mysore. 



A low much-branched woody herb with much silky hair, 

 very sticky ; panicles short, close. Flowers yellow, tinged 

 with purple. 



63. CROTALARIA MEDICAGINEA, Lamk. ; F. B. I. ii. 81 ; W. & A. 

 192. C. neglecta, W. & A. 192. C. hemiarioides, W. & A. 

 192. 



A common very variable plant, found in three fairly 

 well-marked varieties, which, however, are more or less 

 connected by intermediates. 



Branches prostrate, weak, very slender, with slender 

 filiform divaricating branchlets and pedicels and racemes 

 with only 2-3 flowers; the. leaflets narrow oblanceolate 



var. 1. typica. 



Branches prostrate and somewhat ascending with 

 shorter branchlets and pedicels and 6-9-flowered racemes ; 

 the leaflets obovate, broader var. 2. neglecta. 



