Cro/a/aria.] Leguminoscr. I I 



5. C. multiflora, Benth. in Lond.Journ. Bot. ii. 47S (1843). 

 C. bi/aria, var. (/) multi/lora, Am. Pug. 11. Thw. Enum. Si. C. P. 

 1268. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 69. 



A robust herb, not much branched, branches stout, cylin- 

 drical, curved, densely and softly hairy; 1. on very short hairy 

 petioles, numerous, rather closely placed, very variable in form 

 and size, i~4in.,rotundate or broadly or narrowly ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate or linear, rounded at base, acute and apiculate at 

 apex, shortly hairy on both sides, pale and with prominent 

 reticulation beneath, stip. linear, small, divaricate or refiexed ; 

 fl. very large, 2 in., on stout nodding ped., 2-6 arranged in 

 racemes at end of long axillary (or apparently terminal) 

 peduncles, bracts small, refiexed ; cal. 1 in., segm. foliaceous, 

 lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; pet. much exserted ; pod i| in., 

 oblong-ovoid, not stalked, cylindrical, tipped with long style, 

 densely clothed with fulvous or brown silky hair, pale green 

 blotched with purple ; seeds about 12. 



Montane zone, up to 6000 ft., on the patanas ; rather common. 

 Dolosbagie ; Elk Plains ; Hewahette ; Bandarawella ; Haputale. Fl. 

 Sept., Oct. ; sulphur-yellow with purple veins. 



Endemic. 



The most ornamental of our species, with very large showy flowers ; 

 but the name multiflora is scarcely justified. 



[C. bi/aria, L.f. is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 69, on the faith of 

 a specimen so labelled by Mr. Bentham in Hb. Kew, without collector's 

 name. An error is probable, and the specimen really from S. India.] 



C. rubiprinosa, IVilld. Sp. PI. iii. 973 (1800). 

 C. Wi htinna, (Irali., Thw. Enum. 81. C. P. 2772. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 69. Wight, Ic. t. 885. 



A robust herb, erect or suberect and spreading, usually 

 much branched, 1-2 ft. high, stem softly hairy; 1. very 

 variable, 1-2 in., very shortly stalked, broadly oval or oblong- 

 linear, very obtuse, apiculate, more or less densely silky or 

 velvety with golden or grey hair, lat. veins strongly marked 

 ath; stip. large, decurrenl on stem so as to form wings 

 with the upper part dilated falcate and spreading; fl. 

 ite-sized, on < urved, silky ped. 1 3 in., in Ion- racemes, 



luncle leaf-opposed, preading or ascending, stiff, silky, 

 bracts ovate, a< ute, bracteoles immediately beneath cal. 

 Ian m. large, nearly , : in., acuminate, densely 



silky with golden or fulvous hair; pet. scarcely longer than 

 cal.; pod iA \\ in., shortly talked, narrowly oblong-ovoid, 

 turgid, tipped with sharp hooked Btiff ba e ol the style, 

 brown, often marked with white str< 



