Orotdaria.'] L. lbquminosj!. (J. G. Baker.) 79 



bracts minute, linear. Calyx |-1 in. long, densely trown-velvety ; teeth very long, 

 linear or lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla lemon-yellow, glabrous, little exserted. Pod 

 lJ-2 in. long, densely persistently dark-brown and velvety, 12-20-seeded. 



54. C. juncea, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 126 ; branches" terete multisvilcate, 

 stipules or minute subulate, leaves linear or oUong rather obtuse, racemes 

 lateral and terminal not panicled, pod oblong sessile velvety twice the calyx. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 490 ; Hoxb. Cor. PI. t. 193 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 259 ; Wall. Cat. 6409 ; 

 W. Sf A. Prodr. 185 ; Bah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 64. 0. fenestrata, Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1933. 0. benghalensis, Lamk ; BC. Prodr. ii. 125 : Wall. Cat. 5395. 6. 

 tenuifolia, Moxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 263; BC. Prodr. il. 126; Wall. Cat. 5368. 

 0. porrecta. Wall. Cat. 6363. 0. viminea, Wall. Cat. 6397 B. 0. sericea, 

 WUld. not of Petz.—Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 26. 



Plains &om the HmuiAYAS to Ceylon, but often planted for its fibre. Biema, 

 Wallich; Pegu, McClelland. — Disteib. Malay isles, Australia. 



A stiff shrub several feet high, with slender virgate rigid thinly silky branches. 

 Leaves rather distant, firm, linear or oblong, usually 1^-3 in., shining on both 

 sides with thin short brown silky hairs. Racemes loosely 12-20-flowered, reaching a 

 foot long ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^- J in. long, densely clothed with ferru- 

 ginous velvety hairs ; teeth linear-lanceolate, very deep. Corolla bright yellow, 

 glabrous, slightly exserted. Pod 1-1 j in. long, clothed with short-spreading persistent 

 silky hairs, 10-15-seeded. Yields Sun fibre. 



65. C. obtecta, Cfrah. in Wall. Cat. 5372 ; branches terete, stipules 

 or minute deciduous, leaves oblong obtuse, racemes terminal and lateral not 

 panicled, pod stalked densely velvety twice the calyx. W. Sf A. Prodr. 185 ; 

 Ic. t. 208 and 383. 0. tetragona, Wall. Cat. 5367 D. 



Wbstbrn Peninsitla ; Nilghiris and Cochin. 



A tall shrub, with curved woody branches densely clothed with short brown silky 

 tairs. Leaves short-stalked, coriaceous, 2-4-in., both sides more or less silky. 

 Bacemes rather close, 12-20-flowered; bracts rainute, lanceolate. Cah/x |-1 in., 

 densely velvety, deeply bilabiate ; teeth linear. Corolla slightly exserted ; standard 

 silky on the back. Pod 1^2 in. long, 10-12-seeded, densely coated with dark brown 

 velvety pubescence. 



Vae. 1. glabresoens; branches and leaves glabrescent. C. glabrescens, Benth. 

 in Hook. Land. Journ. ii. 663. — Carnatic, near Courtallum, Wight. 



** Flowers panicled. 



66. C. madurensls, Wight in Wall. Cat. 6376; leaves ovate-oblong 

 closely silky, stipules 0, racemes panicled, bracts round cuspidate subdeciduous, 

 calyx-tBeth narrow, corolla exserted, pod many-seeded much exserted. W. Sf A. 

 Prodr. 184 ; Benth. in Hook. Land. Jomn. ii. 563. 0. oandicans, W. ^ A. 

 Prodr. 184. 



NiLGHiEis and Madura hills, in the Caenatic. 



A stiff erect undershrub, copiously paniculately branched. Branches clothed with 

 short dense brown silky hairs. Leaves short-petioled, obtuse, subcoriaceous, broadly 

 rounded at base, 2-4 in., clothed on both sides with fine very short shining silky 

 hairs. Bracts fewer and more deciduous than in other panicled Eriocarpse. Calyx 

 J in. deep, densely silky, deeply bilabiate; teeth narrow, acuminate, two upper 

 lanceolate. Corolla | in. ; standard rather pointed, densely silky on the back. Pod 

 short-stalked, nearly glabrescent, 10-12-Beeded, 1 in. long. 



57. C. subperfoliata, Wight in Wall. Cat. 6377 ; leaves oblong acute 

 closely silky, stipules 0, racemes panicled,^ bracts round spreading persistent,. 



