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CAJANUS bicolor. 
T'wo-coloured Pigeon Pea. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSÆ. $ PAPILIONACEZ. 
CAJANUS, DC. Calyx campanulatus, subbilabiatus, labiis subæqui- 
longis, superiore breviter bifido, inferioris tripartiti laciniis lanceolato-subu- 
latis, sursum curvatis, intermedia paullo longiore, omnibus apice recurvis. 
Corollæ papilionaceæ deciduæ petala æquilonga, vexillum latum, basi bical- 
losum, unguis marginibus reflexis, ale rectæ, carina faleata. Stamina 10, 
filamento vexillari libero diadelpha, alterna breviora; antheræ conformes. 
Ovarium quadri-quinqueovulatum. Stylus adscendens inferne pilosus ; stigma 
subpeltatum. Legumen lineari-lanceolatum, utrinque angustatum, coni- 
pressum, tri-pentaspermum, lineis inter semina profundis obliquis torulosum, 
intus istmis membranaceis transversim pluriloculare. Semina subrotunda, 
subcompressa, umbilico lineari, estrophiolato. ——Frutices Asie tropice, in 
America culti, erecti pubescentes v. velutini; foliis pinnatim trifoliolatis, 
foliolis ovali-lanceolatis, mucronatis, stipellis breviter subulatis, stipulis /anceo- 
latis, racemis axillaribus pedunculatis, corymbiformibus, bracteis oblongo- 
lanceolatis, caducis, pedicellis ez eadem bractea geminis, floribus flavis, legu- 
minibus hirsuto-pubescentibus.—Endl. gen. no. 6686. 
C. bicolor ; vexillo extus discolore, leguminibus 4-5-spermis maculatis, sti- 
erige lateralium petiolulo subæqualibus.—DeCand. prodr. 
2. 406. 
Cytisus Cajan, var. B, Lam. diet. 2. 249. 
Cytisus pseudo-cajan, Jacq. hort. vind. 2. t. 119. 
Cajanus indicus B, Walpers Repertorium, 1. 783. - 
The Pigeon pea, or Doll as it is ealled in the East Indies, 
is said to be so named because its seeds are the favourite food 
of wild pigeons; it is however extensively used by man, 
being cultivated very generally in both the East and West 
Indies. 
In the opinion of some Botanists only one species exists, 
of which there are two varieties, the one with flowers entirely 
yellow, and two or three seeds in each pod, which is never 
spotted ; the other with flowers streaked deponi with 
crimson, and having four or five seeds in a pod, which is 
marbled with dark streaks. Others regard them as a dis- 
tinct species. The first is called the No-Eye Pea in the West 
