crotalarIa

[Lat. crotalum; Gr. krotalona rattle made of split reeds, pottery or metal, and Lat. fem sing. adj. suff. -aria. So named, because, when the inflated legumes are shaken, the seeds rattle inside.] Bot .: A genus of papilionaceous plants, the typical one of the family Crotolariese (q. v.). The leaves are simple or compound, the inflorescence in racemes, the flowers generally yellow, the legume oblong, curved inward, with puffed out or swollen sides. Between 250 and 300 species are known. Crotalaria juncea is cultivated in India and Southern Asia generally for the fiber yielded by the inner bark. It is called San, Sun, Shunum, or Sunn Hemp, a name which has no connection with the luminary of day, but is the Hindu stan i san or sun = hemp. It is termed also Madras hemp, Bombay hemp, Brown hemp, and Taag, . Bags and low-priced anvas are made in India from its fibers. It is also grown as a fodder plant. C. retusa is sometimes grown in India for its fibers. The branches of C. *I. Lit.: Acro , athwart, obliquely; so as to inter Burhia are twisted by the people of Scinde into IMG:content-1391.png:[blocks in formation] tough ropes. A decoction of C. espadilla is employed in Venezuela as sudorific in fevers. crot-a-lär-i-e-aa, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. crotalar ( ia ), and fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot.: A family of papilionaceous plants, sub-tribe Genisteæ. cro-tăl-I-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. crotal ( us ) (q. v.), and fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ .] Zool .: A family of serpents, sub-order Viper in a. There is a deep pit on each side of the nose lined I. Lit .: The quality or state of being cro or with small IMG:content-1392.jpg:[blocks in formation] borne cro wise.