LEGUMINOS^. CCIII. Cajanus. CCIV. Lupinus. 



365 



f J 



equal, pinnately bearded, longer than the corolla, 

 straight, depressed, or rather hooked, pilose, 8-seeded. 

 baceous twining plant, with trifoliate leaves. 



1 C. MUCUNoiDEs (Desv. 1. c.). %, '^. 



Mucunn-like Calopogonum. PL tw. 



Cult. See Mucuna for culture and propagation, p. 364. 



Legume 

 An her- 



S. Native of Guinea. 



CCIII. CAJA^NUS {Catjang is the Amboyna name for C 



and earlier, and the other 5 oblong and later. Style filiform. 

 Stigma terminal, roundish, bearded. Legume coriaceous, oblong, 

 compressed, obliquely torulose. Cotyledons thick, but con- 

 verted into leaves at the time of germination. — Herbs or sub- 

 shrubs, with digitate leaves, constantly composed of from 5-15 

 leaflets, very rarely simple. Leaflets complicated before expan- 

 sion, and while asleep or through the night. Stipulas adnate to 

 the petioles. Peduncles opposite the leaves or terminal. Flowers 



Jlavus). D. C. cat. hort. monsp 85. no. 43. H. B. et Kunth, aijemate or verticiUate, sessile, or pedicellate, disposed in ra- 



nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 395. D. C. prod. 2. p. 406. Cajan. 

 Adan. fam. 2. p. 326. Pet. Th. diet. sci. nat. 6. p. 166. 



LiN. SYST. Diadelphia, Decdndria. Calyx campanulate, 

 5-cleft ; segments subulate, incurved at the apex, 2 superior 

 ones joined together higher up than the rest. Corolla with ample 

 vexillum, which is bicallous at the base, and an obtuse straight 

 keel. Stamens diadelphous. Legume oblong, compressed, ob- 



Seeds numerous, nearly spherical, 



EVect shrubs, clothed 



cemes, and spikes, with one bractea under each pedicel, and with 

 2 bracteoles adhering laterally to the calyx, which are caducous, 

 or wanting. 



§1. 



Leaves digitate. 

 Annual herbs. 



1 L. a'lbus (Lin spec. 1015.) flowers alternate, pedicellate, 

 destitute of bracteoles ; upper lip of calyx entire, lower one 

 tridentate ; leaflets obovate-oblong, usually 7 or 8, villous be- 



Native of the Levant, and now cultivated in 



neath. 0. H. 



the south of Europe. 



L. sativus, Gater. montaub. 



Ludw. ect. t. 191. Blackw. icon, t- 282. 



126.— Clus. hist. 2. p. 228. f. 1. 



lique, torulose, 2-valved. 

 separated by membranous partitions 



with velvety pubescence, with pinnately trifoliate leaves, stipel- 

 late leaflets, and axillary racemes of yellow flowers, with 2 pe- 

 dicels rising from each bractea. Cotyledons conferruminate in 

 germination. 



1 C. Bi COLOR (D. C. 1. c.) vexillum discoloured on the out- 

 side ; legumes 4-5-seeded, spotted ; stipels of the lateral leaflets 

 about equal in length to the petiolules. ^ . S. Native of the 

 East Indies. Cytisus Cajan, var. /3. Lam. diet. 

 Cytisus pseudo-cajan, Jacq. hort. vind. 2. t. 119. 

 6. 1. 13. Flowers yellow, except the outside of the vexillum, 



which is purplish. The seeds are eatable, and very delicate tice continued from the tim'e of the ancient Romans, as 

 when young, 



Tiro-co/oMrerf-flowered Pigeon-pea. 

 Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



2. 



Flowers white, almost sessile. This plant is cultivated in some 

 parts of Italy and other parts of the south of Europe, as other 

 pulse, for food; also in the south of France, on poor, dry, ex- 

 tensive plains, as an ameliorating crop, to be ploughed in where 



p. 249. j^Q manure is to be had, and the ground is too bad for clover 

 Rheed. mal. ^j. other better plants. In Tuscany, it is not only cultivated for 



' " ' food, but also for improving the land by ploughing it in, a prac- 



" '^ may be 



seen by consulting Pliny and Columella. With us it is used 



Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1800. only among other annuals in the flower- border. 



2 C. flaVus (D. C. 1. c.) vexillum the same colour on both ttacu7,'Min'ch7 methyl 52. 

 Sides ; legumes 4-5-seeded, and are as Avell as the calyxes spotless ; 

 stipels of lateral leaflets one half shorter than the petiolules. 

 h • S- Native of the East Indies, but now cultivated in South 

 America and Africa. 



L. albus, iEgyp- 



Wh 



Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1596. Sh. 1 to 2 feet. 

 2 L. Te'rmis (Forsk. descrip. 131.) flowers alternate, pedicel- 

 late, bracteolate ; upper lip of calyx entire, lower one somewhat 



Cytisus Cajan, Lin. spec. 1041. Jacq. tridentate; leaflets 5-6, obovate-oblong, viHous beneath. ©. H. 

 Plum. ed. Burm. 114. f. 2. Burm. zeyl. p. 86. 

 Hughes, barb. 199. t. 19. This shrub fs cultivated in 

 both Indies, South America, and Africa. 



obs. 1. t, 1. 

 t. 37. 



Native of Egypt. 



L. prolifer, Desrous. in Lam. diet. 3. p. 622. 



Like L. 



Flowers white but with the vexillum tipped with blue. 



Ji^bieny planted in rows, as a fence to the sugar plantations. 

 Ihe seed is much eaten by the poorer inhabitants and negroes, 

 and is esteemed a wholesome pulse ; in Martinico even the 

 better sort of people hold the seeds in high estimation, and 

 prefer them to common peas. 



Jamaica is for feeding pigeons, whence the English name. 



tranches, with the ripe seeds and leaves, are given to feed hogs, 

 holies and other cattle, which grow very fat on them. 

 le/Zow-flowered 



In the West Indies it dlhus zvA L.varius. Termis is the Arabic name of the plant. 



The chief use they are put to in 



The 



The peduncles, after being peeled, are eaten raw, and the seeds 

 are boiled as other pulse by the Arabians. 

 Termis or Egyptian white Lupine. *"' 

 PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



Fl. Ju.Aug. Clt. 1802. 



3 L. va'rius (Lin. spec. 1015.) flowers somewhat verticiUate 

 or alternate, pedicellate, bracteolate ; upper lip of calyx biden- 

 tate, low^er one slightly tridentate ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 



number. G). H. Native of 



Clt. 1687. 



or Common Pigeon-pea. 

 Shrub 4 to 10 feet. 



villous beneath, usually 5-6 in 



Fl. July, Aug. g ;„^ gou(|^ of France, Corsica, Egypt, and in the islands of the 



C* h ATI '^ - — -" - i\rcnipejagu ui . 



^««. A light rich soil will suit the species of Cajanus ; and L^m. diet. 3. p. 



>oung cuttings will root in sand, with a hand-glass placed over 

 nem, in heat, but the plants are annually raised from seeds 

 brought or sent from the West and East Indies. 



CCIV. LUPrNUS (of Pliny and other Latin writers, said 



J ^6 from lupusy a wolf, on account of its being supposed to 



aestroy the fertility of the soil; or rather airo rr]Q Xvirric, apo 



« 'w?^^, whence Virgil calls lupines trisles lup'mi, the bitter- 



ess of this pulse contracting the muscles and giving a sorrowful 



appearance to the countenance, Jossius). Tourn. inst. 392. 



*-2I3. Lin. 



AVchipelago of Europe, &c. L. semi-verticillatus, Desrous. in 



623. L. sylvestHs a, Lam. fl. fr. Flowers 



large, blue or purplish. 



Variable Lupine. 



Fl. Jul. Aug. 



Ch. 1596. PL 2 to 3 feet. 



4 L. hirsu'tvs (Lin. spec. 1015.) flowers alternate, bracteo- 

 late ; upper lip of calyx bipartite, lower one trifid; leaflets 5, 

 oblong- spatulate, hairy on both surfaces ; legumes very hairy. 

 H. Native of Spain, South of France, Egypt, Corsica, 



and the islands of the Archipela;^o of Europe. 



L. digitatus, 



Park. 



2. p. 406. 



gen. 1176. Gaertn. fruct. 2. p- 150. D. C. prod. 



Calyx profoundly bi- 



reflexed 



W T' ^^^"^^ Monadilphia, Dec&ndria. 



late. Corolla papilionaceous, the vexillum with 

 ih i^'*^ ^he keel acuminated. Stamens monadclphous, with 

 ^^l>e or sheath entire, 5 of the anthers are smaller, rounder, 



Forsk. descript. 131.— J. Bauh. hist. 289. with a figu 

 parad. 335. t. 337. f 1.— Gerard, emac. 1217. f. 4. Flowers 

 smaller than those of L. varius, blue, lower ones sometimes ax- 

 illary. 



Plant clothed with ferruginous hairs. 



Hairy Lupine. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1629. 



foot. 

 , ped 



late, bracteolate ; upper lip of calyx bipartite, lower one entire ; 

 leaflets 9-11, oblong-lanceolate, villous on both surfaces, us will 



