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LIV. LEGUMINOS.E. 

 SUB-ORDER. I. PAPILIONACE^E ; II. LOTE^E. 



1. HEYLANDIA, DC. 



1. LATEBROSA, DC. Prod. 2, 123. Herbaceous plant, hairy 

 dichotomous ; leaves on short petioles, obliquely cordate ovate ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile, small, yellow ; legume compres- 

 sed, 1 to 2-seeded ; more or less hairy. Syn. H hebecarpa, DC. loc. 

 cit. ; H leiocarpa, DC. loc. cit. ; Hallia hirta, Willd. sp. iii, 169; 

 Hedysarum latebrosum, Linn. Maut. ; Crotalaria uniflora, Roxb. 

 Fllnd. iii, 271. 



2. CROTALARIA, Linn. 



1 . A NTHYLLOIDES, Lam. Encyc. Meth. ii, 1 95. Annual, erect, all 

 clothed, except the upperside of the leaves, with close-pressed 

 brownish hairs ; stipules minute setaceous ; leaves oblong to oblong 

 linear ; flowers axillary and solitary, and in terminal racemes ; calyx 

 very hairy, longer than the corolla ; legume glabrous, sessile, broader 

 upwards, shorter than the calyx ; flowers pale-yellow, open in the 

 evening. Southern Concan, DC. Prod. 2,129; C stiicta, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. iii, 265 ; C Roxburghiana, DC. loc. cit. 



2. FULVA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 266. Shrubby, erect, branched, 

 densely clothed, particularly on the young parts, with soft white or 

 fulvous hairs ; leaves oblong lanceolate mucronate, silky on both 

 sides when young ; racemes terminal and from the upper axils ; 

 calyx densely silky ; legume sessile oval, villous, enclosed in the 

 enlarged calyx, 2-seeded. Ram Ghaut. 



3. BURHIA, Ham. in Wall. Cat. Shrubby, spreading, much- 

 branched ; branchlets with silky pubescence ; leaves oblong, with 

 adpressed hairs ; calyces very hairy ; legume ovoid, few-seeded, 

 very hairy. At Cambay. A member of the desert flora, Walp. 

 Repert. v, p 436. 



4. JUNCEA, Linn. sp. Fl 1004. Erect branched, more or less 

 clothed with shining, silky pubescence; stipules and bracts 

 setaceous ; leaves from narrow linear to ovate lanceolate, obtuse 

 mucronate or acute ; racemes elongated, terminating each branch ; 

 calyx densely covered with rusty tomentum ; legumes sessile 

 oblong, broader upwards, twice the length of the calyx, tomentose, 

 many-seeded. This is the cultivated " Tag," yielding one of the 

 best kinds of Indian hemp ; DC. Prod. 2, 125 ; Roxb. Fl Tnd. iii, 

 259. Syn. C Bengalensis, Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii, 196; C tenui- 

 folia, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 263 ; C fenestrata, Bot. Mag. t. 1933. 



5. LESCHENAUTLII, DC. Prod. 2, 125. Erect branched, 



