LEGVMINOSM, 



[Gbotalaeia. 



Leaves acute ; "bracts leafy, 

 persistent. . . .14. C sericea. 



Pods exserted, hairy. 



Branches angular ; pods brown, 

 velvety 15. C tetragon a. 



Branches terete, sulcate ; pods 

 clothed with persistent 

 silky hairs. . . .16= C.juncea. 



Leaves 3-f oliolate. 



Pods 2-seeded, sessile, sub-glohose . 17. C. medicaginea. 

 Pods many-seeded, stalked, oblong, 

 glabrous 18. C orixensis. 



1. C. alata, Buch.-Ham. ex Boxb. Hort. Beng. 9S ; Fl. Ind.iii, 274 j 

 Don Prod. 241 ; Boyle III. 191 ; F. B. I. ii, 69. C. bialata, Boxh. I.e. 



A suberect undershrub. Stems and under surface of leaves silky - 

 pubescent. Leaves simple, 2-3 in. long, subsessile, obovate to ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse or subacute, thin ; stipules with, lanceolate-deltoid points 

 forming decurrent wings on the stem for nearly the whole length of the 

 internodes. Bacemes 2-3-flowered, on elongated often leafy lateral 

 peduncles ; hracts small, ovate, acuminate, persistent. Calyx densely 

 silky ; tube campanulate, bracteolate. QoroLla pale-yellow, hardly ex- 

 serted. Pod lt-l| in. long, distinctly stalked, glabrous, 30-40-seeded. 



Dehra Dun, Eohilkhand, Oudh, Gorakhpur. Distrib. : Outer Hima- 

 laya, up to 6,0L>0 ft., from the Panjab to Assam andtheKhasia Hills ; also 

 in Bengal, Burma and the Malay Peninsula, extending to Java. 



2. C. Burhia, Buch.-Bam. in Wall. Cat. 53S6 ; Boyle III. 191; D. ^ Q, 

 Bomh.Fl. 54; Brand. For. FL. 144; F.B.I, ii, 66; Watt E. D. Vern. 

 KMp. 



An erect or procumbent shrub. Branches many, slender, rigid when 

 old, and sometimes ending in spines, tomentose. Leaves simple, ^IJ in. 

 long, distant, oblong or lanceolate, rigid, pale-green, silky ; stipules 0. 

 Floivers in elongated terminal racemes ; pedicels very short, 2-bracteolate. 

 Calyx densely silky, teeth lanceolate. Corolla yellow with reddish veins, 

 hardly exserted. Pod oblong, a little longer than the calyx, villous. 



In sandy and rocky ground, especially near Agra and in Merwara. Dis- 

 TBIB.: Sindh, Punjab, Eajputana, Cambay, extending to Baluchistan and 

 Afghanistan. Flowers daring the cold season. The branches and leaves 

 are used as a cooling medicine, and in Eajputana they are valued as fod- 

 der. In the Punjab its fibre is made use of for cordage. 



3 C. prostrata, Bottl. in Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 747 ; Boxh. Fl. 

 Ind. Hi, 270 ; W. Sj' A. Prod. 159 (excl. syn.); F.B I. ii, 67 ; Watt E. D. 

 A diffuse perennial herb. Stems slender, clothed with yellowish-brown 



silky hairs. Leaves t-1^ in. long, nearly sessile, rather obliquely obovate- 



