Crotalaria.'] r. legumInos^. (J. G. Baker. )^ 71 



Copiotisly tranched, 1-2 ft. high.'tlie stems clothed with Ibng dense erecto-patent 

 hrown siliy hairs. Xeaws membranous, short-stalked, 1-3 in. long, rounded at hoth 

 ends, thinly silky. Eacemes stalked, reaching 6-9 in. long. Cah/x ^^ in. deep, 

 densely clotSied with long silky hairs ; teeth all long, acuminate, upper fenoeolate, 

 lower linear; Gorolla yellow, net exserted. Pod ohlong, 1-1^- iii. Ibng, 20-30- 



22, C> trlquetra, Dahell in Sooh. Kew Jxmrn. iii 34 ; sufiEruticose, 1}Tanches 

 triquetroiis obscurely pubescent, stipules lanceolate minute, leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong obtuse, racemes lateral and terminal laxly 2-3-flowered,.,pod silky short- 

 stalked 3-4' times- the calyx. Dalz. Sf, Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 66. 



Western PENiNstnLA. ; Concan and Malwan, Dalsell,. StoeJcs, Law ; Cetton, 



Suffrwticose,. 1-2 ft. high with copious very slender ascending branches angled down 

 to the base. Leaves membranous, pale green, glabresoent, 1—2 in. long,.broadly rounded 

 at the base. Racemes long-stalked, very lax ; bracts minute, lanceolate. Calyx ^-^ in. 

 deep, thinly silky; teeth long all' linear, acuminate. Corolla pale yellow, ^ in. 

 long ; standaM ovate, pointed. Fod oblong-cylindrical, f in. long, thiiily coated with 

 short yellow-brown silky hairs, 15— 20-seeded. 



23. C. alblda, Heyne; DC. Prodr. ii. 126; sufiruticose, branches terete 

 minutely 3ilky,,stipules 0, leaves linear or oblanceolate obtuse, racemes mostly ter- 

 minal laxly 6^20-flowered, bracts linear very minute, pods glabrous sessile 1^ or 

 twice the calyx. W. Sf A. Prodr. 189. 0. montana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 265 ; W. 

 8r A. Prodr..l92. 0. scoparia. Wall. Cat. 5418. 0. parva,. GVa4. in Wall. Cat. 

 6402. 0. punctata). Qrah. in Wall: Cat. 5401 A. 8f C. C. tenuis, Wall. Cat. 

 6403. 



Teopicai eegion through India proper and OEYJXm, ascending to 5500 ft. in Kumaon, 

 and to 6-7000 in the West Himalayas. Biema, WalUch. Pegu, McClelland. 

 Tenassbeim, Heifer. — Disteib. Malay IsleSj China, and Philippines; 



A shrub 1-2 ft. high,, with very numerous firm slender, obscurely silky branches. 

 Leaves short-stalked, fem, 1-2 in.,- thinly silky beneath, pellucido-punctate, glabres- 

 cent above. Eacemes 2-4 in. long, rarely laterals Cah/x turbinate, ^ in., finally 

 I in. long, thinly silky ; teeth long, 3 lower linear acuminate, upper broader often 

 subobtuse. Corolla pale yellow, glabrous, scarcely exserted. Pod oblbng-cylindrieal, 

 ^-| in. long, 6-12-Beeded. 



Vae. 1. epunctata; lieaves membranous pubescent net dotted, racemes very lax 

 3-6-flowered, calyx teeth all linear acuminate. C. punctata, jDalz..in, Kew Jowa. iii. 

 210 ; Dale. ^ Gibs. Bomb.Florai, 56.— So0theen. Cokcan, Batzell.. 



** Pod, included or very slightly exserted. 



24. C. nana, Burm. Fl. Ind. 156, t. 48, %. 2 ; leaves oblanceolate obtuse, 

 racemes capitate 6-12-flowered, calyx densely silky, upper teeth connate, pod 

 ovoid small glabrous sessile slightly exserted. BC. Prodr. ii. 127 ; W. 8f A. 

 Prodr. 191 ; Balz. §• Qihi. Bomb. Fl. 56. 0. umbellata, Wight in Wall. Cat. 

 6383 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 191 ; Dalz. 8r Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 56. 0. biflora, Jlerb. 

 Madr. in Wall. Cat. 5381, not of Linn. 0. sobolifera, Grah. in Wall. Cat, 

 5420 B. 



Westeen. PENiNstnA and Cisyxon, ascending to 6000 ft. 



An annual 1 ft. or I'ess high, with copious slender terete ascending or spreading- 

 branches cfothed with short silky hairs. Leaves i~l in., moderately firm, thinly silky 

 above, denseliy so below, base subcuneate, stipules 0. Bracts and bracteoles minute, 

 subulate ; upper flowers often quasi-umbellate.. Cal^x ^-^ in. long, densely clothed with 

 long silky hairs ; teeth of lower Up narrow, acuminate. Corolla pale, not exserted. Pod 

 6-8-seeded, black when mature. 



Vae. l.patula; leaves narrow linear, calyx, more shortly sUky. 0. patula, Grah. 

 in Wall. Cat. 5371.— Biema, WalUch, Griffith.. 



