40 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora .of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, Scortechini ! Malacca, Griffith. Pahang, 

 Ridley ! 



9. Crotalaria uncinella Lamk. Encyc. Meth. II, 200. An almost 

 stemless undershrub with several subprocumbent slender flexuous 

 spreading branches 1-2 feet long, slightly puberulous. Leaves com- 

 pound 3-foliolate, petioles 1 in. long, leaflets subequal or the terminal 

 slightly the larger, 1-1*5 in. long, 'h-lh in. wide, glabrous above slightly- 

 hirsute beneath, elliptic obtuse entire ; stipules small, acute, rigid, re- 

 curved, glabrous above hirsute beneath. Racemes lateral and terminal 2 

 in. long, 20-25-fld. ; flowers close-set, bracts small recurved ovate acu- 

 minate. Calyx hirsute '15 in. long, teeth lanceolate. Corolla *25 in. 

 long, exserted, yellow, glabrous. Pod obliquely subglobose, closely 

 adpressed-pubescent, 2-'seeded ; style sharply hooked. Lamk. 111. t. 617, 

 f. 2. C. elliptica Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 279 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 344 ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. II, 580 ; Flor. Hongk. 

 75 ; Forbes & Hemsl. Ind. Sinens., I, 151. C. Vachellii H. & A. Bot* 

 Beech. Voy. 180; Walp. Rep. I, 588. Rhynchosia aurea Ridl. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, Ser. II, III, 293 not of DC. 



Malay Peninsula ; Pahang, Ridley ! Malacca, Berry ! Goodenough ! 

 Distrib. China. 



First described by Lamarck from specimens received by him from Mauritius; 

 probably the plant had been there introduced ; at all events Mr. Baker does not 

 cite it, even as a stranger, in his Flora of Mauritius. Afterwards described, inde- 

 pendently, by Roxburgh, from specimens reared in the Calcutta garden, and therefore, 

 though issued by Wallich, deliberately excluded from the Indian Flora by Wight 

 and Arnott, who have been in this followed by Baker in the Flora of British India. 

 Its discovery in Pahang by Mr. Ridley, in whose list it stands as Rhynchosia aurea t 

 and in Malacca where it is apparently quite common, shows that after all it deserves 

 to be included in the Indian Flora. 



10. Crotalaria incana Linn. Sp. PI. 716. An erect undershrub 

 2-4 feet high with robust terete loosely downy branches. Leaves com- 

 pound 3-foliolate petioles 2-3 in. long, leaflets membranous, quickly 

 glabrescent above sparsely hirsute beneath terminal 1-5-2 in. long, larger 

 than lateral all ovate, obtuse at apex and rounded or widely cuneate 

 at base ; stipules minute setaceous. Racemes terminal and lateral 6-10 

 in. long, rather closely 12-20-fld., bracts minute. Calyx '25 in. long, 

 loosely downy, teeth lanceolate twice as long as the tube. Corolla '6 in. 

 long, exserted, yellow, glabrous. Pod subsessile slightly deflexed and 

 slightly recurved, cylindric 1—1*25 in. long, permanently pubescent with 

 spreading brown silky hairs ; 20-30-seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 132 ; Bot. 

 Keg. t. 377 ; Miq. Fior. Ind. Bat. I, 347 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 83. 

 0. Schimperi A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. I, 151. C. herbacea Schweig. in 

 Schrank, Syllog. Ratisb. II, 77. 



