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Cajanus.] l. legumikos^. (J. G. Baker.) 21 



80. CAJANirS, DO. 



An erect shrub. Leaves 3-foliolate. Floicers racemed. Calj/x-tube cam- 

 •anulate; teeth short. Corolla much exserted, its petals equal in length; 

 ^eel truncate. Sta^nens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary suhsessile, few- 

 ovuled; style long^ filiform, much upcurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear, 

 sh-aight, narrowed"^ at both ends, S-5-seeded, torulose with oblique linear 

 aepressions between the non-strophiolate seeds. — Distrib. The only species. 



1. C. indicus, Spre^ig. Sijst. iii. 248 ; W. ^ A, Prodr. 25G. C. bicolor, 

 ^ydl Cat 5577, 0. flavus and bicolor, DC Prodr. ii. 406. Oytisus Oajan, 

 J^tnnr, Roxb, FL Ind. iii. 325. O. pseudo-caian, Jacq, HorL Viml t. 119.— 

 -fi^eefZe Hort MaL vi. t. 13. 



Wild? and cultivated throughout our limits, ascenr^ing to 6000 ft. in the 

 ^^mahyas.— DisTRiB. Everywhere in the tropics, probably native of the Old 



An erect shrub, "\vith slender sulcate grey-silky branchlets. Stipides minute, 

 anceolate; leaflets 3, minutely stipellate, oblong-lanceolate, entire, subcoriaceous, 

 niniy silky above, densely beneath, indistinctly gland-dotted. Flotvers in sparse dis- 

 nctly-peduncled corymbose racemes, often forming a terminal panicle; pedicels 

 o^ny, 2-3 times the calyx. Cah/.r } in. Corolla 3 times the calyx : standard yellow, 

 K^-Jtavm) or beautifully veined with red (C. bicolor). Pod 2-3 in. by }-^ in., finely 

 *>^nL tipped with the lower half of the style. 



81. DUNBARIA, W. ife A. 



dottS'^-k*^^ or herbaceous climbers. Leaves 3-foliolate, distinctly gland- 

 teptTT? ^°^^^^ ' stipella3 rarely present. Flowers racemose or axillary. Cali/d- 

 ^in long and narrow, the lowest distinctly exceeding the others. Corolla 

 je or less exserted, marcesceiit or caducous; keel usually not beaked. 

 oviS* **iadelphous, anthers uniform. Ocarij sessile or stalked, many- 

 markl' ^*^^^ i^flexed, filiform beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flat, not 

 Thre ^^^^ depressed lines between the substrophiolate seeds.— DiSTRiB. 



Sub 



GEN 



Jap 

 Corolla large, marcescent, lasting till 



size. 



I^ba 



stinnip '.^®"^&inea, IV. ^' A. Prodr, 25^« ; stems closely pubescent, 

 beneath ^'°''^^ caducous, leaflets thick as broad as long dea^ely pubescent 

 **^i, standard exceeding the w^in'-s and keel, pod puberulout. ColLnna 



.W.. in IVall Cat 557S, 0. oibba, Grali. in Wall. Cat 5572, Ji.C 



fa latifolia, W. 4- A. Prodr, 258. 



A Zf^ ^^'*=-?TKRN Pfxixscla and Ceylox. , . , 



i^''7?.^r^^'l^'"'^'''^th slender stems and densely downy branchlfts and pelioles. 

 above *f?"'^,'*-^le]toid, entire, ooriaceous, 2-3 in. long. gla])rescent or thinly downy 

 present d'^ "^''^^ ■'^o^ Krey or ferruginous pubescence beneath ; stipellse sonietiraes 



\ 4 in. ; bracti 



tooth linoo* « 



«preadi?c; .?^.y^?iv w. 



ipped with the hooked base of the style. 



^ in., densely downy ; 

 Corolla 1-1 :f in. lono:, 

 Pod sessile, straight, 



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