1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosoe. 353 



III. t. 617 /. 2. C. elliptica Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54; Flor. Ind. iii. 279; 



Benth. in Hook. Loud. Journ. ii. 580 ; Flor. Hong-Kong. 75 ; Forbes 8f 

 Hemsl. Ind. Sinens. i. 151. C. Vachellii Hook. $f Am. Bot. Beechy Voy. 

 180; Walp.Rep.i. 588. 



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



An almost steraless undershrub with several almost procumbent spreading 

 branches, 1-2 feet long. Leaflets glabrous above, sub- equal or often the terminal 

 rather larger than the other two, 1-1J in. long, £-f in, broad ; petioles about 1 in. ; 

 stipules small acute rigid recurved glabrous above, hirsute beneath. Racemes lateral 

 and terminal, 2 in. long, 20-25-fld., flowers close-set, bracts small recurved ovate- 

 acuminate. Calyx hirsute, teeth lanceolate £ in. long. Corolla \ in. yellow, far 

 exserted, glabrous. Pod i in., style sharply hooked, closely adpressed-pubescent, 

 2-seeded. 



First described, from communicated specimens, by Lamarck as a native of 

 Mauritius ; again and independently, from introduced specimens, by Roxburgh, as a 

 native of China ; l'efused a place in the Indian Flora by Wight and Arnott and by 

 Baker; now, having been sent from the Malay Peninsula, requiring to be formally 

 added to the Indian list. 



70. Crotalaria incana Linn. 



No doubt naturalized only ; to the localities of F. B. I. must now 

 be added Chittagong, King's Collectors ! and Penang, Curtis ! 

 73. Crotalaria Saltiana Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 648 (1811). 



This name is given as a synonym in F. B. I. It is however older than the name 

 C. striata DC, which is more usually employed ; having been adopted in the Kew 

 Index it is necessary to use the-name C. Saltiana in the F. B. I. also. 



At the same time it has to be pointed out that some of the synonyms of the 



F. B. I. do not belong here. Crotalaria latifolia Roxb. ex Wight and Arnott, Prodr. 

 i. 180, of which an authentic specimen exists in Herb. Calcutta, is not the same as 



G. Saltiana Andr. (G. striata DC.) It is however, the same as G. Brownei Bertero 

 in DG. Prodr. ii. 130. But unfortunately, it is also the same as C. lanceolata Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 54 and as that is the older name doubtless some bibliographers will say 

 that it must be employed to designate the plant. But as this would involve the 

 further displacement of Meyer's G. lanceolata, a name given with good reason to a 

 South African species, it seems more in accordance with common sense to retain for 

 the plant in question the name given to it by Bertero. Though named first in the 

 Calcutta Garden the plant is a native of the West Indies and might therefore be left 

 unnoticed, especially as it is no longer in cultivation in the Calcutta Garden, but for 

 the fact that it turns out to have escaped, and become apparently as throughly 

 naturalized as G. incana, in Chittagong. 



736. Crotalaria Brownei Bertero, DC. Prodr. ii. 130 ; shrubby, 

 faintly silky, leaflets large oblong acute, racemes terminal and lateral 

 elongated, bracts minute setaceous, corolla much, exserted, pod sessile 

 glabrous cylindric. C. lanceolata Roxb. Hort. Beng, 54 (nomen prius ) 

 not of Mey.; W. 8f A. Prodr. i. 180. C. latifolia Roxb. ex Wall. MSS. 

 in Hort. Calc. ; W. $ A. Prodr. i. 180. 



CnrTTAGONG ; naturalized, King's Collector ! Native of West Indies. 



