200 LEGUMINOSM, [Eothia. 



1. Rothia, Pers. ; Fl. Br. Ind. ii, 63. 



Diffuse annuals. Leaves petioled, digitately S-foliolate. Flowers 

 minute, in short axillary raeemes. Calyx-iwh^ turbinate, the teeth 

 as long as the tube, the two upper broader and arched. Corolla 

 scarcely exserted, all the petals narrow, nearly straight, distinctly 

 clawed, those of the keel scarcely cohering. Stamens l-adelphous; 

 anthers uniform, minute. Ovary sessile, minute : ovules many ; 

 style short ; sligma minute," capitate. Pod linear, slender, nearly 

 straight, compressed, many-see led, continuous within.— Species 2, on« 

 in India extending to N. Australia, the other Trop. African. 



R. trifoUata, JDC. Prod, ii, 382; W. ^ A. Prod. 195 ; F. B. I. ii, 



63; Watt E. B. Trigonella indica, Linn ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. in, 389. 



A much- branched hairy diffuse annual with slender stems a foot or mors 

 long. Leaflets ^-1 in. long, sessile, oblanceolate- oblong, minutely mucro- 

 nate, rather fleshy, silky ; 'petioles shorter than the leaflets ; stipules free, 

 small, i lunate, persistent. Flowers 1-4, shortly pedicelled. Calyx ^-^ 

 in., silky. Corolla inconspicuous, fugacious. Pod i^-2 in., silky. Seeat 

 numerous. 



Bundelkhand ( Kdgeworth) . Distrib. : South to Oeylon, and extending 

 to Australia. The leaves and pods are boiled and eaten as a vegetabl* 

 by the poorer classes. 



2. Heylandia, DC. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 64. 



Leaves simple, exstipulate. Flowers small, solitary, axillary. 

 Calyr-iuhe turbinate ; teeth lanceolate, three lowest deeply cut. 

 Corolla much-exerted ; standar d large, round ; wings much smaller, 

 obovate ; keel-petals narrow, firmly cohering, narrowed into an in- 

 curved beak. Stamens 1-adelphous ; anthers 2-morphous. Ovary 

 sessile, 2-ovulate ; sty/e elongated, filiform, abruptly incurved at the 

 base; stigma terminal. Fod oblong, flat, 1-2-seeded. — A single 

 species, confined to India. 



H. latebrosa, DO. Mem. Leg. vi, 201 ; W. # A. Prod. 180; Boyle 

 m. 191 ; D. Sf Q. Bomb. Fl. 54 ; F. B. I. ii, 65. Crotalaria unifloraj K(en. 

 in Boxh. Fl. Ind, in, 271. 

 A prostrate much-branched more or less silky herb. Leaves ^-f in. 



long, simple, close-set, alternate, subsessile, cordate-ovate, unequal at 



the base. Flowers in the axils of most of the leaves, subsessile, solitary, 

 !^ yellow. Pod ^^ in. long, silky. 

 Common within the area. Distbib. : Throughout tropical India, and 



in Ceylon. 



3. Crotalaria, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 65. 



Herbs or shrubs with simple or digitately 3-foliolate rarely 5-7-folio- 

 late leaves. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, often 



