1897.] G\ King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 37 



fid., terminal ; flowers deflexed close-set (occasionally solitary flowers 

 occur also in the axils of the uppermost stem-leaves) ; bracts long, seta- 

 ceous, persistent. Calyx densely silky with very long hairs, •35-5 in. 

 long, tube shortly campanulate, teeth all long acute, the upper lanceolate, 

 narrow. Corolla blue and white, rarely yellow, glabrous, not exserted. 

 Pod sessile '5 in. long, not exserted, oblong, glabrous, 10-15-seeded. 

 DC. Prodr. II, 129; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. II, 565; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 338 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 73. C. anthylloides Lamk. 

 Encyc. Meth. II, 195 ; Don, Prodr. 241 ; Wall. Cat. 5366 A (partly), B, 

 C. G. salicifolia Ham. in Don, Prodr. 241 not of Heyne. G. nepal- 

 ensis Link, Enum. II, 228. C. venusta Wall. Cat. 5365. C. brevipes 

 Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. IV, 44. 0. eriantha Sieb. & Zucc. El. 

 Jap. 13. C. Oldhami Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. Ill, 42. C. calycina 

 Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLV, pt. 2, 147 not of Schrank. 



Malaya Peninsula; Pahang, Ridley! Nicobars ; Kamorta, Kurz! 

 Distrib. Japan, China, Indo-China, Philippines, Java ; Himalayas from 

 Assam westward ; Panjab, Central India and Behar. 



The specimens collected by Mr. Kurz in Kamorta having yellow flowers were 

 referred by him to C. calycina. An examination however shows that they are not 

 calycina but sessilifiora. A gathering from Java has been issued from Mus. Leyden, 

 also under the name G. calycina ; this probably indicates that in Java as in the 

 Nicobars, G. sessilifiora may have yellow flowers. 



3. Crotalaria chinensis Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 1003. An annual 

 1-2 feet high, usually breaking into several stoutish ascending branches 

 from near the base, laxly silky with reddish brown hairs. Leaves 

 1-2 in. long, simple, linear to oblanceolate with rounded base and 

 obtuse or subacute apex, thickly herbaceous laxly silky on both surfaces ; 

 stipules 0. Racemes densely capitate 3-6-fld., all terminal, bracts and 

 bracteoles linear, persistent. Calyx laxly silky, *35-*5 in. long, tube very 

 short, teeth all long acute, the upper lanceolate, lower linear. Corolla 

 pale-yellow, glabrous, not exserted. Pod sessile "5 in. long, no£ exserted, 

 oblong, glabrous, 15-20-seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 130 ; Benth. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. II, 566 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 339 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. II, 73. 



Perak ; Larut river; on rocks in the stream, Wray ! Distrib. China, 

 Indo-China, Philippines ; India ; Malay Islands. 



4. Crotalaria ferruginea Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5398. A diffuse 

 copiously branching herb with a perennial rootstock, finely silky or 

 shaggy, branches 1*5-2 feet long. Leaves very short petioled, herba- 

 ceous 15-2 in. long, "5-'75 in. across, simple, ovate-oblong obtuse paler 

 beneath ; stipules persistent foliaceous deflexed or spreading, 25 in. 

 long; petioles '15 in. long. Racemes laxly 2-8-fld. leaf -opposed, 2-4 in. 

 long, bracts linear *2 in. long often deflexed, pedicels very short. Calyx 



