XXX. LEGUMINOSiE 
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incnryed ; stigma minute. Pod |-1 in., erect, straight, narrow, 
flattened ; seeds 6-15. 
Densely silky. Leaflets lanceolate, acute. Flowers yellow . 1. A. flaccidum. 
Thinly silky or glabrous. Leaflets obovate, obtuse. Flowers 
pink 2. A. roseum. 
1. Argyrolobium flaccidum, Jaub. & Spach ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 63. 
A small, erect shrub densely covered with short, adpressed, silky 
hairs ; branches 12-18 in., sometimes dwarfed to less than 6 in. 
Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, in., acute. Flowers yellow, few, 
in short racemes. Pod j-1 in. ; seeds 6-8. 
Sutlej valley ; May-July. — N.W. India, ascending to 9000 ft. 
*2. Argyrolobium roseum, Jaub. & Spach) FI. Br. Ind. ii. 64. 
A perennial, thinly silky herb ; branches 6-12 in. Leaflets broadly 
obovate, ^ in., base wedge-shaped, tip rounded. Flowers pink, 
few, clustered. Pod § in. ; seeds 10-15. 
N.W. India, ascending to 7000 ft. ; May-July. — Persia, Beloochistan. 
4. CROTALARIA. From the Greek krotalon, a rattle, refer- 
ring to the rattling o? the seeds in the inflated pods. — Widely 
dispersed in tropical and warm regions. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or of 3 leaflets, 
entire ; stipules usually small or none, in C. alata conspicuous as 
decurrent wings. Flowers yellow, rarely blue, in terminal or leaf- 
opposed racemes. Calyx 2-lipped ; teeth 5, long, linear, the 2 
upper more or less united. Petals about as long as the calyx or 
much longer : standard orbicular, notched, often with a small, 
hard knob just above the short claw ; wings shorter than the 
standard ; keel strongly incurved, pointed. Stamens all united in 
a tube split along the upper side, 5 shorter with long, basi-fixed 
anthers, 5 longer with smaller, versatile anthers. Ovary sessile 
or nearly so ; style strongly curved or abruptly indexed, bearded 
on the inner side below the minute stigma. Pod oblong or 
globose, inflated ; seeds 2 or more, often numerous. 
Leaves simple. Pod oblong, 6- to many-seeded. 
Flowers yellow. 
Petals never much longer than the calyx. 
Pod in. or less. 
Stems prostrate. Calyx and lower surface of 
leaves densely red-hairy. Flowers ^ in- 
or less. 
Pod | in 1. C. prostrata. 
Pod | in. or less 2. C. humifusa. 
Stems erect or diffuse. Calyx and lower surface 
of leaves white-pubescent. Flowers 4- in. . 6. C. albida. 
Pod 1-1± in. 
Stipules large, decurrent as conspicuous wings 
on the stem and branches . . . . 4. C. alata. 
Stipules small, not decurrent . . . . 5. G. mysorensis. 
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