Crotalaria.'} Leguminoscz. 15 



Montane region, descending a little into upper zone of low country, on 

 patanas ; common. Also at Nilgala, Uva. Fl. Jan., May-Sept. ; yellow. 



Throughout the E. Tropics and in Trop. Africa. 



On the mountains at high elevations this is a dwarf plant, 6 in. high, 

 with smaller fl. and small linear leaves. 



14. C. retusa, L. Sp. PL 715 (1753). Kaha-andana-hirlya, 5. 

 XLilukiluppai, T. 



Burm. Thes. 80. Herm. Mus. 20. Fl. Zeyl. n. 276. Moon Cat. 52. 

 Thw. Enum. Si. C. P. 1274. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 75. Bot. Reg. t. 253. Herm. Hort. Lugd.-Bat. t. 201. 



A stout, semi-shrubby herb, with a few long, erect, striate 

 branches, glabrous, or with adpressed pubescence; 1. ih-2\'\r\., 

 on very short, pubescent ped., narrowly obovate-oblong, 

 tapering to base, very obtuse, often emarginate, glabrous 

 above, finely pubescent beneath, stip. very small, subulate ; 

 fl. numerous, large, 1] in. on stout, curved, pubescent ped., 

 closely placed in erect, terminal racemes 6-12 in. long, bracts 

 shorter than ped.; cal. large, nearly glabrous, tube wide, cam- 

 panulate, segm. triangular, acute ; pet. much exserted ; pod 

 [£— 1| in., oblong, cylindrical, tapering at base to a short, 

 broad stalk, tipped with slightly curved style-base, glabrous, 

 purplish-green; seeds 15-20. 



Van ■-!, maritima, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ccyl. PI. 22. 



Stems prostrate, densely pubescent ; fl. more crowded in 

 shorter racemes. 



Low country, especially the dry region, up to 2000 ft., in waste places. 

 Var. ft on the seashore. Fl. Aug.-October ; bright sulphur-yellow. 



Found throughout the Tropics. The FL B. Ind. states this to be 

 'often cultivated,' and it has a tough fibre, but it is not grown in Ceylon 

 on that account. 



Hermann '.Mus. 20) gives the name 'Jacberija ' (Yakberiya) for this, 

 and explains its meaning (see C. labumifolia). 



It C. verrucosa, /.. S/>. PI. 715 (1753). Nil-andana-hiriya, 

 Kllukiluppai, 7. 



Burm. Thes. 8l. Herm. Mus. 65. Fl. Zeyl. n. 277. Moon Cat. 52. 

 Thw. Enum. 81. C. I'. 1273. 



FL n. Ind.il 77. Burm. Thes. t. 34. Herm. Hon. Lugd-Bat. t. [99. 

 ',, l' . t. 200. 



A large, much-branched herb, 2 j ft., branches divaricate, 



irregularly quadrangular, finely puberulous, buds silky ; 1. 



hortly petiolate, spreading, ovate-rhomboid or 



I, tapering to base! obtuse, undulate, with minute 



, b 'tli in i.« <■ , pal< i beneath, w ith 

 prominent hal bullate above, stip. rather lai 



folia .i' lit'-, per i tent ; fl. rather 



| i in., on .hort, curved, downy ped., about 6 1 2 in., 



