Cbotalabia. j LEG UMINOS^. 2()^ 



oWong, obtuse, hairy on "both sides, glancous "beneath; stipules 0. 

 Eaoemes 2-4-flowered, longer than the leaves. Calyx densely silky, teeth 

 linear. Corolla small, yellow, hardly exserted. Pod nearly sessile, linear- 

 oblong, ah out ^ in. long, glahrous. 



Throughout the area. Distrib, : Punjab and Bengal to Ceylon, ascend- 

 ing the Himalaya to 6,000 ft.; also in Upper Burma and Java. The plant 

 is used medicinally. 



4. C. mrta, Willd in Gen. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. iv. 217 ; W, Sf. A, 

 Trod. 182 ; F.B-I. ii, 10. C chinensis, Eoxi. Fl. Ind. Hi, 268 {not of Linn.). 



A diffuse annual with slender branches, _ thinly clothed with spreading 

 rufous hairs. Leaves shortly stalked \-i in. long, linear, obtuse, rounded 

 at the base ; stipules 0. Flowers crowded in racemes at the end of leafy 

 branches ; Iracts lanceolate, leafy ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ in., 

 densely silky ; teeth long, linear, axjuminate. Corolla hardly exserted, 

 Fod oblong, twice as long as the calyx, glabrous. 



Bundelkhand, Guna in C. India (King), Sanger (Jerdon). Distrib. 

 Behar, S. India. 



5. C. humifusa, F. Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5421; F.B.I, ii, 67. 



A diffuse trailing herb. Stems slender, flexuose, much-branched, densely 

 clothed with short spreading yellowish-brown silky hairs. Leaves nearly 

 sessile, |-1 in, long, roundish or oblong, membranous, glaucous beneath, 

 equal at the base ; stipules minute, subulate. Feduncles arcuate, densely 

 silky, laxly 3-6-fiowered, longer than the leaves, sometimes leafy below ; 

 pedicels deflexed, the lower ones as long as the calyx ; bracts very small 

 Calyx teeth linear, very long, densely silky. Corolla very small, yellow' 

 ish, not exserted. Pod oblong, shortly stalked, i in. long, glabrous, 



Dehra Dun (Gamble). Disteib. : W. Himalaya from Garhwal to 

 fSikkim and the Khasia Hills, up to 5,000 ft.; also on the Naga Hills, 

 Upper Burma and in S, India. 



6. C. ferruginea, B. Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5393 ; F.B.I, ii, 68. 



A tall herb clothed with pale yellow or white silky hairs. Leaves 1-2, in. 

 long, shortly stalked, obovate-oblong, obtuse, equal-sided, pale beneath ; 

 stipules leafy, persistent, often deflexed. Racemes elongated, laxly 

 2-8-flowered ; bracts small, linear, persistent. Oaiya^-teeth long. Corolla 

 hardly exserted. Pod shortly stalked, l-l? in. long, linear-oblong 

 glabrous. 



Dehra Dun, Saharanpur district, Merwara. Disteib. : Nepal to Assam 

 ascending to b',000 ft, ; also in Burma and Ceylon, extending to the 

 Malay Peninsula, Java, China and the Philippines. 



7. C. hirsuta, Willd. Sp. PI. Hi, 918; Roxb. Fl.Ind. Hi, 270; W. &• A. 

 Prod. 188} F. B. I, H, 68. C. rubiginosa, Roxb. I. c. 269 (not of Willd.), 



A perennial diffuse silky herb. ^ Lea-yes 1-2 in. long, ovate, acute, slightly 



- oblique; stipules linear, mimite. Peduncles slender, often leafy 



clothed with short spreading silky hairs. Baoemes 2-3-flowered ; hracts. 



