Crota/aria] Legit mi noses. 13 



A perennial herb or small under-shrub, with a short, 

 woody base and very numerous ascending, slender branches 

 6in.-2ft. long, covered with short, adpressed hair; 1. numerous, 

 rather close, small, \-\ in., shortly stalked, linear-spathulate, 

 acute at base, obtuse, truncate or retuse at apex, apiculate, 

 glabrous, and minutely punctate above, silky with adpressed 

 hair beneath, without stip.; fl. small, numerous, on slender 

 ped., secund, in lax, terminal racemes, bracts minute, often 

 on the cal.-tube ; cal.-segm. f in., the upper linear-oblong, 

 very obtuse, the lower linear-lanceolate, acuminate, all very 

 finely silky; pet. about as long as cal.; pod \ in., oblong-ovoid, 

 not stalked, tipped with hooked base of style, glabrous, brown; 

 seeds 6-12. 



Lower montane zone ; rather rare. Abundant in the Uva hill- 

 country on the patanas ; Maturata ; Galagama. Fl. Jan., Feb. ; bright 

 yellow. 



Throughout India and Malaya, also in Philippines and China. 



10. C. nana, Burm. Fl. Ind. 156 (1768). 

 Moon Cat. 52. Thw. Enum. 82. C. P. 3301. 

 Fl. B. Ind. li. 71. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 48, f. 2. 



A small herb, 6-12 in. high, with numerous short branches 

 from the base of the stem, slender, prostrate, clothed with long 

 hair ; 1. J-| in., very shortly stalked, oval-oblong, obtuse at 

 both ends, apiculate, hairy on both sides, minutely pitted 

 above, without stip.; fl. small, on short, hairy ped., 2-6 in a 

 crowded capitate terminal raceme ; cal.-segm. shaggy with 

 long hair, upper connate, lower linear, acuminate ; pod \ in., 

 scarcely exceeding cal., globular-ovoid, tipped with short, 

 reflexed style, glabrous, rough, black; seeds 10-12. 



Var. ,i, umbellata. C. umbel lata, Wight, Thw. Enum. 82. C. P. 

 1276. 



More robust, often 2 ft., much less branched below, but 

 with several stout, stiff, ascending branches above which ex- 



i the central one ; fl. more numerous, 4-8 in a terminal 

 umbel ; seeds 6-8, rather larger. 



■Ty ; run-. Katukanda, Negombo (ThwaitCS). Moon gives 

 mho. \';ir. )i, lower montane zone, 3000-4000 ft.; rather rare. 



boda; Maturata; Pa tan. FL July, Sept^ Feb. ; yellow. 



Also in Peninsular India. 



11. C. linlfolia, /.. /'. Supp. /'/. 322 (1781). 



' I'. 1 277. 

 PL B. Ind. ii. 72. 



li- , stems numerous, pr preading, slender ■ 



silky with adpre led hair; 1. '.mall, under j in., "ii 



