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Pods much longer than the calyx : — 

 Pods glabrous, flowers yellow : — 



Stems diffuse, racemes lateral ... 



Stems erect, racemes terminal : — 



Branches stout striated, glabrous or nearly bo j 

 leaves stipellate : — 

 Leaves obtuse or retuse, bracts and stipules 

 small subulate 



Leaves acute, bracts and stipules large acute 

 and leafy ... 

 Branches slender terete, densely silky; leaves 

 exstipellate ... 

 Pods hirsute, flowers usually blue, racemes lateral 

 as well as terminal 

 Leaves compound : — 

 Leaves 3-follolate : — 



Pods small, obliquely subglobose, very few-seeded 



(hirsute) 



Pods large, cylindric, many-seeded : — 



Pods hirsute (narrowly cylindric almost sessile) 

 Pods glabrous : — 



Pods narrowly cylindric, almost sessile 

 Pods oblong, supported on a long gynophore 

 Leaves usually 5-foliolate (at times 3-, 4-, or even 6-7 

 foliolate 



4. C. ferruginea. 



6. 



7. 



.. 10. 



C. retusa. 

 C. sericea. 

 C. albida. 

 C. verrucosa. 



C. uncinella. 



C. incana. 



C. Saltiana. 

 G. laburnifoUa. 



... 13. C. quinque folia. 



1. Crotalaria alata Ham. in Roxb. Hort. Beng. 98. A suberect 

 undershrub 1-2 feet high ; stem and leaves below clothed with short 

 silky pubescence. Leaves 1-3 in. long, simple, oblong-ovate or obovate, 

 subacute or obtuse, membranous, the stipules with lanceolate-dentate 

 points forming decurrent wings on the stem for nearly the whole length 

 of the nodes. Racemes 2-3-fld., on elongated often leafy lateral pe- 

 duncles ; bracts small, persistent, ovate, acuminate. Calyx densely silky, 

 *35 in. long, tube campanulate, bracteolate. Corolla pale-yellow hardly 

 exserted. Pod distinctly stalked 1*25-1 75 in. long, linear-oblong, 

 glabrous, 30-40-seeded. Don, Prodr. 241 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 274 ; 

 DO. Prodr. II 124; Wall. Cat. 5356; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. II, 

 478 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 329 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 69. C. 

 sagitticaulis Wall. Cat. 5357. C. bialata Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 274. 



Singapore; Changi, Rullett I Ridley! Distrib. Himalaya; Indo- 

 China ; Malay Islands. 



2. Crotalaria sessiliflora Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1004. A rigid 

 erect annual 1-2 feet high, simple or sparingly fastigiately branched, 

 stem and leaves below shortly silky. Leaves 2-6 in. long, simple linear 

 or lanceolate narrowed to both ends thickly herbaceous, quite glabrous 

 above, the stipules setaceous very small. Racemes 1-8 in. long, 5-20- 



