1 8 LeguminoSCB. \Crotalaria. 



19. C. medicag-inea, Lam. Encyc. Meth. ii. 201 (1786). 

 Thw. Enum. 82. C. P. 1278. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 81. 



A small perennial herb, with a thick woody branched 

 rootstock, and numerous, slender, filiform, spreading, much- 

 branched, prostrate stems with scanty adpressed hair ; 1. very 

 small, 3-foliolate, petiole -^-k i n -> stip- minute, acicular, lflts. a 

 little longer than petiole, stalked, obovate or oval, acute, 

 obtuse or truncate, with adpressed hair on both surfaces, paler 

 beneath ; fl. very small, on slender ped., 2-5 in leaf-opposed 

 racemes; cal. with adpressed hairs, segm. oblong-linear, pet. 

 about twice as long as cal. ; pod pisiform, \ in., pointed or 

 beaked; clothed with adpressed hair; seed solitary. 



Var. j8, luxurians, Baker in Fl. B. Ind., I. c. 



Stem erect, 1-2 ft, more strongly pubescent; lflts. larger, 

 \-\ in., glabrous above; fl. 6-10 in raceme; pods in a crowded 

 head. 



Dry region, chiefly on seacoast ; rather rare (?). Near Jaffna, abun- 

 dant ; Trincomalie ; Batticaloa. Var. f3, Intermediate region. Haragama ; 

 Ella Pass, Uva. Fl. Sept.-Feb., dull yellow. 



General in the E. Tropics ; also in China and Afghanistan. 



C. Willdenowiana, DC. was found once or twice about Colombo by 

 W. Ferguson, but is not native (Thw. Enum. 441). It is C. P. 3853. 

 The specimens are poor. 



C. incana, L. A weed in the Botanic Garden, Peradeniya and neigh- 

 bourhood for many years past, but no doubt introduced ; Thw. Enum. 82. 

 C. P. 1269. It seems to be the plant recorded in Moon Cat. 52 as 

 C. capensis, and is becoming common in waste places. A general Tropical 

 weed, probably originally American. 



20. C. striata, DC. Prod. ii. 131 (1825). 

 Thw. Enum. 82, 410. C. P. 3810. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 84. Bot. Mag. t. 2300. 



A tall herb, 2-3 ft., stem stout, somewhat striate, with few 

 long spreading branches, very minutely puberulous, young 

 parts silky; 1. large, 3-foliolate, petiole 2-3 in., stout, spreading, 

 stiff, swollen at base, finely pubescent, stip. o, lflts. longer 

 than petiole, on short, swollen, pubescent stalks, broadly oval, 

 acute at base, obtuse, often emarginate, apiculate, thin, 

 glabrous above, minutely puberulous and glaucous beneath ; 

 fl. numerous, moderately large, on short deflexed ped., densely 

 arranged in narrow erect spicate racemes 6-12 in. long and 

 terminating stem and branches, bracts filiform, early deciduous ; 

 cal. minutely pilose, truncate at base, segm. equal, lanceolate- 

 linear; pet. much exserted, standard narrow, strongly bent 

 upwards; pod i| in. or rather more, much deflexed, linear- 



