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racemes terminating every branch: legumes sessile, oblong,. twice 
the length of the calyx, tomentose, many-seeded : flowers distant,, 
bright-yellow. ; 
Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. This species which is. 
known as the Sunn plant is extensively cultivated in India for the. 
sake of its fibres which make strong hemp for cordage canvas anh 
paper. 
(20) C. optexta. (G@rah.) 
Edent. W. & A. prod. I. p. 185. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 208-383.. 
Spec. Cuar. Suffruticose erect plant, densely tomentose: leaves. 
oval, mucronate : racemes terminal, elongated: bracteoles on the 
middle of the pedicels: calyx densely covered with rusty tomen= 
tum: segments distinct: legumes sessile, oblong, much longer- 
than the calyx, densely tomentose, many-seeded: flowers numers 
ous, approximate. 
Peninsula. 
(21) C. rormosa. (Grah.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 186. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 981.—Spicil. I. t. 53.. 
Spec. Cuar. Erect, villous all over: stipules reflexed + leaves- 
euneate-obovate, obtuse, glabrous above, villous beneath: bracts: 
lanceolate, the lower ones without flowers : bracteoles on the middle. 
of the pedicels: legume oblong, glabrous, much longer than the 
calyx, many-seeded : flowers in a dense raceme at the extremity. 
of the branches, yellow. 
Neilgherries. 
(22) C. Lescuenautti. (Dec. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 186.—Dee. prod. IT. p. 125, 
Spec. Cuan. Erect plant, glabrous: stipules reflexed : Jeayes, 
cuneate, narrow-obovate, obtuse, villous underneath: racemes ters 
minal: bracts broad-lanceolate, about as long as the pedicel : brac« 
teoles below the middle of the pedicel : flowers numerous, distant, 
much larger than the glabrous calyx. ‘ : 
Neilgherries. i 
(23) C. sericea. (Reiz.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 186.—Roxb. fl. Ind. ITI, p. 273, 
Syn. C. spectabilis, Roth. Dec. prod. IT, p. 125, 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IX, t. 26. 
Srsc. Cuan. Erect, branched, glabrous: stems obtusely angled: 
stipules large, semi-sagittate, reflexed: leaves lanceolate, cuneate 
