

208 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Pachyrhzus. 



Cultivated throughout our limits, but not known in a wild state. — Distrib. 

 Everywhere in the tropics. 



Boot a large tuber, like a turnip, which is eaten both rawaud boiled. Stems yfide- 

 twining, sufFruticose, clothed with short deciduous pubescence. Leaflets large, mem- 

 branous, glabrous, as broad as long, deeply or shallowly lobod in the upper half, the 

 base deltoid. Racemes lax, |-1 ft., the lower nodes often prolonged into short 

 branches ; bracteoles setaceous. Calyx \ in., as long as the pedicel. Corolla reddisn, 

 1 in, or more long. Pod 6-9 in. long, 8-I2-seeded, straight, ghibrescont. 



76. CZ.ITORIA, Linn. 



Scandent or suberect undershrubs, with the most showy flowers of all the 

 Phaseolem, 3-7-foliolate leaves, stipellate leaflets and persistent membranous smaU 

 stipules and bracts and large bracteoles. Calyx membranous, tubular; teetn 

 deltoid or lanceolate. Corolla much exserted ; standard spoon-shaped; very 

 large ; wings and incurved keel much shorter. Stamens monadelphous of 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, 

 flattened, bearded along the inner side. Pod linear, flattish or turgid, — Distrib. 

 Species 27, in tropics of old and new world, mostly the latter, 



SuBGEN. 1. Tematea. Pod flattish, the valves not keeled on the face. 



1. C. Tematea, Linn. ; DC Prodr. ii. 233 ; stems terete scandent, F^ 

 tioles short, leaflets 5-7, flowers solitary, bracteoles large. Wall Cat. 5344; 

 Pot, Mag. t. 1542; Roxb, Fl Ind, iii. 321: W. & A. Prodr. 205; Dah. ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. C8. 



Tropical zone from the Himalayas to Ceylon, Birma, and Malacca.— Di^TRiP. Cos- 

 mopolitan in the tropics, common in cultivation, 



A climber, with slender downy stems. Stipules minute, linear ; petiole |-1 in- J ^^^^' 

 lets ovate or oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, 1-2 in. long. Bracteoles roundish, obtuse, 

 |-^ in. long. Calyx ^I'm.; teeth lanceolate, half as long as the tube. Corom 

 1^-2 in. ; standard 1 in. broad, bright blue, with an orange centre. Pod 2-4 in. long, 

 6-10-seeded. 



Var. 1. pilosula, Wall. Cat. 5347 (sp.) ; leaflets and flowers much smaller, tlie 

 former ^-f in. long, ^standard white an inch long. — Guzerat, Stocks. 



2. C. biflora, Balz. in KewJoitm. ii. 35 ; stems suberect angular, petioles 

 verv shortj leaflets 5, flowers geminate, bracteoles lar^e, Dalz. ^■' Gibs. Bonio- 



Fim. 



In the CoNCAN, common ; Balzell, Stocks, Law. 



Scarcely shrubby, tlie young branches densely pubescent. Stipules minute, i^^' 

 ceolate ; petiole J-^ in.; leaflets membranous, 2-3 in. long, ovate or oblong, ^^"'^ ,^ 

 acute. Flcwers coJ>io^^B, scarcely ptduncled ; bracteoles ^-^ in., ovate or ^^^^ jj. 

 aristate. Calyx ^-| in. ; teeth shorter than the tube, lanceolate, aristate. Coro 

 like that of the last, but much smaller. Pod 1-2 in, long, firm, 5-6-seeded, 



3. C. marlana, Limi. ; nc. Prodr. ii. 234 ; a climber, petioles ^^^S^^^f] 

 lets 3, bracteoles small, flowers 2 peduncled, calyx glabrous, teeth much sboJ*^^ 

 than the tube. 0. mexicana, Link. Fnum. Ilort. lieroL ii. 235. C. acuminata; 

 Grah. in Wall Cat. 534G, C. Grahami, Ste^ul. ; Benth. PL Jungh. 232 



Khasia, temperate region, alt. r5-6000 ft.. Hook. til. ^ Thomson. Lobb. 

 Wallich. Distrib, Mexico, United States. 



XavoTi 



5^^7n5 slender, terete, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, \-^ in.; petiole l^-^ in-^' 

 leaflets membranous, glabrous, ovate, pale beneath, 2-4 in. long, acute or subobtus . 

 Peduncles J-2 in., with a pair of minute lanceolate bracts at the apex ; bracteoles la " 



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