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Flora of the 



[NO. 6, NEW SERIES, 



Crotalaria nov. sp. Herbaceous,erect,glabrous,leavesvery 

 (6. Verrucosse,) narrow, linear, very obscurely nerv- 

 ed, tapering at the apex into a point. 

 Stipules wanting, racemes terminal, 

 many flowered, bracts adnate to the 

 rachis, (as in the stipules of some 

 Phaseolese,)ovate with along acumi- 

 nation, calyx cleft to the middle, 

 upper lip bifid, legume with a short 

 thick stalk, oblong, broader up- 

 wards, glabrous, many seeded. 

 Flowers yellow, a very distinct 

 species, apparently new, a rare plant. 

 Crotalaria elegans. 



„ Wallichiana, very common. 



„ nov. Sp. ? (6. Verrucosse,) sufTruticose, erect, leaves orbicular, 



smooth on the upper surface, under 

 surface and stems densely covered 

 with white woolly hair, stipules very 

 large, lunate, transverse, racemes 

 terminal, calyx (cleft to the middle, 

 upper segment bifid,) pubescent, 

 bracts ovate with a long acumina- 

 tion, legumes glabrous, many seeded, 

 flowers yellow. 12 to 15 feet. Poom- 

 bary ghat. 



Crotalaria lanata. 



?> (7 DifFusse,) A very pretty procumbent species, 



with hirsute legume, very common amongst the grass at 

 Poombary and elsewhere, with 

 very long terminal racemes of large 

 brilliant yellow flowers, perhaps a 

 form of " C. Evolvuloides." 



} , nov. sp. ? Herbaceous, erect, much branched, 



glabrous leaves lanceolate. 



5, Acuminated, attenuated at the base. 



Stipules wanting racemes terminal or 



