14 Leguminosce. \Crotalaria* 



short silky petioles, obovate-oblong, obtuse at both ends, 

 glabrous above, silky beneath, without stip.; fl. small, numerous, 

 on curved silky ped., arranged in erect, lax, terminal racemes; 

 upper cal.-segm. connate, lower lanceolate, acuminate, all 

 densely hairy ; pod not seen (' small, as long as cal., ovoid- 

 oblong, glabrous, black, 8-10- seeded '). 



Moist low country ; very rare. The only specimens are the C. P. 

 ones collected near Galle by Gardner, and they are imperfect and barely 

 sufficient for identification. 



Has a wide distribution throughout the E. Tropics. 



12. C. tecta, Heyne in Roth. Nov. Sp. 334 (1821). 

 Trimen in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 162. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 72 (not given for Ceylon). 



Semi- shrubby at the base, stems 1 ft. or more, numerous, 

 ascending, stiff and wiry, much branched, clothed with ad- 

 pressed white hairs ; 1. small, |— § in., shortly stalked, oval- 

 oblong, obtuse at both ends, glabrous above, adpressed-hairy 

 beneath, without stip.; fl. small, on curved hairy ped., in short, 

 lax, terminal, racemes ; cal. very hairy, upper segm. connate, 

 lower much acuminate ; pod rather over \ in., scarcely ex- 

 ceeding cal., oblong, cylindrical, not stalked, truncate at end, 

 tipped with short style, glabrous, grey; seeds about 10. 



Dry country ; very rare. Collected in dry paddy-fields at Mineri> 

 N.C. Prov., 1885. Fl. Sept.; pale yellow. 

 Also in S. India. 

 Perhaps scarcely more than a suffruticose state of C. linifolia. 



13. C calycina, Schrank, PI. Par. Monac. t. 12 (18 19). 



C. anthylloides, W. and A. Prod. 131 (non Lam.). Thw. Enum. 82. 

 C. P. 526. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 72. 



An erect herb, 1-2 ft. or more, stem stout, with long, 

 ascending branches, densely clothed with fulvous hair ; 1. very 

 variable, nearly sessile, i|-6in., from oblong-oval to linear, 

 subacute at base, obtuse or acute and mucronate at apex, 

 conduplicate when young, glabrous or sparingly hairy above, 

 more or less hairy or shaggy beneath, stip. subulate, hairy; fl. 

 large, on stout, nodding ped. (which become defiexed in fruit), 

 4-8 in lax terminal racemes, bracts in pairs immediately beneath 

 each fl., large, lanceolate, acuminate, shaggy with long hair ; 

 cal. large, f-i in., densely clothed outside with long, shaggy, 

 fulvous hair, glabrous within, upper segm. shortly connate at 

 base, obovate-oblong, obtuse, lower ones lanceolate-linear, 

 acuminate ; pet. equalling cal.; pod rather shorter than cal., 

 not stalked, glabrous, dark brown; seeds about 20, pale brown, 

 polished. 



