70 ti. LEGTJMlNOsa. (J. G. Baker.) [Crotalarid. 



stalked. DC. Prodr. ii. 125; W. ^ A. Prodr. 181; Wt. lo. t. 885; Berdh. in 

 Hook. Land. Jowm. ii. 478. 0. ovaJifolia, Wall. Cat. 5411. 0. Wightiana, 

 WaU. Cat. BS58 JB. 



NlLGHIEIS up to 4000 ft. 



A spreading shrub with stems J-I foot long, densely shortly grey-downy. Leaves 

 suhsessile, rarely an inch long, dark green, always very obtuse, and densely clothed 

 with grey or when young with yellow-brown pubescence ; stipules passing suddenly 

 into a narrow wing from the spreading deltoid points. Bacemes sparse, 1-4-flowered. 

 Braats small, persistent, ovate ; bracteoles small, lanceolate, inserted above the base. 

 Calyx |-J in., densely silky. Corolla. yeUoM;, not exserted. Pod oblong, 1-1^ in. long, 

 glabrous, 20-30-S6eded. 



Vae. 1. scabrella; stems stronger and more ascending, iiowers rather larger, 

 pod more distinctly stalked. C. scabrella, W. & A. Prodr. 181. — Nilghikis and 

 Cbtion. ' 



Vab. 2. Wightiana ; stems suberect much more robust than in the type, leaves 

 thinner more silky larger reaching 2-3 in. long 11-2 in. broad, corolla and calyx |-| in. 

 long, pod 1^2 in. long, 30-40-seeded. 0. Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5368, A. ; 

 W. 4 ^. Frodr. 181.— NuGHrais and Cijtxon up to 6000 ft. 



Sbct. IV. Calyclnee, Bemth. Oopiously-Tjranched difiiise annuals or low 

 shruhs ■with slender branches. Leaves simple, more or less hairy, stipules or 

 small not decurrent. Bacemes all terminal or a few also lateral. Pods 

 glahrovis or pubescent, exserted or included^, 



* Pod decidedly exserted from the ealyXf 



19. C puslUa, Heyne ; DC. Prodr. ii.\ 128 ; annual, densely siliy, stipules 

 0, leaves linear very small, racemes termiilal and lateral laxly 3-&-flowered, 

 bracts minute lanceolate, pod silky sessile twice the calyx. WaU. Cat. 5396 ; W. 

 SrA.Prodr.l%Q. 



Western PBNiN-sui.i ; Bombay to Courtallum. 



Stems under half a foot high, with copious' ascending branches clothed with ad- 

 pressed brown silky hairs. Leaves subsessilej firm, obtuse, ^— f in. long, densely silky. 

 Racemes Very copious, short-stalked, ^1 in. long. Calyx campanulate, silky ^ in. deep; 

 teeth deep, all linear. Coroll^Sltevr^scarae 'exserted. Pod ^ in. long, thinly silky, 

 4-8-seeded. — The smallest bl all the species. 



20. C. hlrta, Willd.^; DC. Prodr. ii. 130; annual, finely hairy, stipules 0, 

 leaves small linear obtuse', racemes capitate 2-4-flowered, br'acts lanceolate folia- 

 ceous, pod glabrous ses^e twice calyx. Mart, in Mvmch. Denks. Q t. F.; W.-^ A. 

 Prodr. 182 ; Benth. in Hook. Land. Jowm. ii. 567. 0. chinensis, Boxb. Fli Ind. 

 iii. 268 ; WaU. Cati 5885, mm Linn. C. pilosa, Boxb. in B. L C. Mus. t. 370 ; 

 BoUl. Ifwc Ack'mOS,. 



Deekan, near Hydrabad. 



A dijffuse annual with slender branches, thinly clothed with short spreading hairs. 

 Leaves short-stalked ^ in., moderately close, rounded at the base. Flowers 

 crowded at the end of leafy branches ; pedicels very short. Calyx J- in., densely silky ; 

 teeth long, all linear, acuminate. Corolla scarce exserted. Pod oblong, 15-20-seeded. 

 — ^Differs from chimensis by its small obtuse leaves and much shorter calyx. 



21. _C. mysorensls, Both; DC. Prodr. ii. 126 ; annual, densely sUky, sti- 

 pules linear persistent, leaves lineaivoblong obtuse, racemes terminal and lateral 

 laxly e-9-flowered, bracts lanceolate foliaceoua, pod suhsessile glabrous twice the 

 calyx. Wall. Cat. 5361 ; W. 8r A. Prodr. 182. 0. stipulacea, iJojcJ. Fl. Ind iii. 

 264. C. hirsuta, Boxb. in B. I. C. Mus., t. 1595. 



Tbopicai, EEGiON, all through India proper, ascending to 4000 fl. in Kumaon-. 1 



