8 LegUininoSCB. [Crotalaria*. 



monadelphous, anth. dimorphous, 5 large and 5 small ; style- 

 long, sharply bent at base ; pod small, flat, 1-2-seeded. — 



Monotypic. 



H. latebrosa, DC. Mem. Leg. 201 (1825). 



Thw. Enum. 81. C. P. 1275. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 65. DC. l.c. t. 34 (If. hebecarpd). 



An annual herb, with numerous prostrate spreading 

 branches 6-24 in. long, much branched, clothed with long 

 spreading hair ; 1. numerous, small, close, nearly sessile,, 

 simple, broadly ovate, cordate and often unequal at base,, 

 apiculate, sparingly hairy on both sides, minutely punctate,, 

 stip. o ; fl. nearly sessile in the axils ; cal.-segm. acute ; pet. 

 much exserted ; pod very small, §■ in., surrounded at base by 

 persistent cal., ovate-oblong, compressed, tipped by long style,, 

 smooth or with a few long hairs, pale brown. 



Dry region; common. Extending also into the intermediate region, 

 as Galagama, Nalande, Etampitiya, &c. Fl. Nov.-April ; yellow. 



Also throughout India. 



There are specimens from Moon, 1819, in Mus. Brit., but it is not in- 

 cluded in his Cat., unless his Crotalaria humifusa, Cat. 52, be this. 



3. CROTALARIA, L. 



Herbaceous or semi-shrubby ; 1. simple or 3- (very rarely 

 5-) foliolate, with or without stip.; fl. in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes ; cal.-tube campanulate, short, segm. nearly 

 equal, the upper 2 often more or less connate; wing-pet., 

 shorter than standard, keel-pet. equalling wings, completely 

 connate and prolonged into a sharp curved beak ; stam. 

 monadelphous, anth. dimorphous ; style long, abruptly curved, 

 upwards at base, stigma minute ; pod sessile or stalked,, 

 straight, turgid or inflated, usually many- seeded, rarely 

 1 -seeded. — Sp. about 300; 77 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Leaves simple. 



Racemes solitary ; seeds numerous. 



Stems prostrate or ascending, diffuse, herbaceous. 

 Stip. o. 

 Fl. 1-4 in raceme. 



Pod globular 1. C. biflora. 



Pod oblong 2. C. prostrata. 



Fl. 4-20 in raceme. 



L. linear-spathulate . . . . 9. C. albida. 



L. oval-oblong ; raceme capitate. . 10. C. nana. 



L. obovate-oblong ; raceme lax . . 11. C. LINIFOLIA. 



