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_ Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous plant: hairy, dichotomous: leaves 
short-petioled, obliquely cordate-ovate : legumes more or less hairy ? 
flowers axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, small, yellow. 
Coromandel. Bombay. Hurdwar. Flowering in the cold seasoit, 
GENUS VI. CROTALARIA. 
Monadeélphia Decandria, Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Krotalon, a rattle, because the pods are inflated, 
and the seeds rattle when they are shaken. 
Gen. Coar. Herbs or shrubs: stipules and bracts small or 
wanting, occasionally large: leaves simple or palmately compound, 
with 3-7 leaflets: calyx 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped: the upper 
lip 2, the lower 3-cleft: vexillum large, cordate: keel falcate, 
usually tapering: filaments united: legumes turgid: valves inflat- 
ed: seeds compressed, reniform. 
(1) C. nupieinosa. (Willd.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 181.—Dee. prod. TI. p. 125. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 885. 
Srrc. Cuar. Low shrub, branched, diffuse, densely pubescent : 
stipules triangular at the apex, decurrent: leaves simple, elliptic- 
oblong or roundish, mucronate, slightly tomentose and glaucous 
beneath: racemes lateral: legume sessile, about twice the length 
of the calyx: flowers yellow. 
Neilgherries. Dindigul Hills. 
(2) C. scaprerta. (W.§ A) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. J. p. 181. 
Spec. Cuar. Procumbent: densély and harshly pubescent ! 
branches elongated, simple, straight: stipules with an acumitiated, 
rigid, recurved point: leaves oval, mucronate, somewhat tomentose 
and glaucous beneath: racemes lateral: legume short-stalked, 4= 
5 times longer than the calyx, glabrous: flowers yellow. 
Mountainous districts of the Peninsula. 
(3) C. Wicuriana. (Grah.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 181. 
Svec. Cuar. A tall, erect, branched plant, covered with rusty« 
coloured shining hairs: stipules mucronate : leaves elliptic-obovate, 
obtuse, mucronate : racemes lateral: legumes 2~3 times the length 
of the calyx, glabrous, 
Dindigul Hills, 
