Tas. 6440. 
CAJANUS inpicus. 
Native of tropical Asia. 
Nat. Ord. LEcuminos%.—Tribe Puasro.er, 
Genus Casanus, DC. (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 641). 
Casanus indicus ; frutex, ramulis sulcatis foliis et inflorescentia tomentellis v. 
sericeo v. velutino-pubescentibus, foliis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis ellip- 
tico-lanceolatis acuminatis subtus pallidis nervosis resinoso-punctulatis, 
stipulis parvis subulatis caducis, stipellis minutis, floribus flavis v. pur- 
pureo-lineolatis in racemis axillaribus dispositis ebracteolatis, bracteis 
caducis, vexillo orbiculato reflexo, alis dimidiato-obovatis, carina obtusa, 
legumine lineari compresso basi et apice angustatis acuminatis 3-5-spermo, 
septis distinctis, seminibus compressis hilo laterali estrophiolato. 
Casanus indicus, Spr. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 248; Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Pen. 
Ind. Or, p. 257; Drury, Useful Plants of India, p. 94. 
C. bicolor, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 85; Prodr, vol. ii. p.406; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
vol. 31, t. 31; Wall. Cat. n. 5577; Carriere in Rev. Horticole, 1874, p. 191, 
C. flavus, DC. 1. ¢. 
Cytisus Cajan, Linn. Sp. Pl. p.1041; Roxb, Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 325; Jacq. Obs. 
voi. t 7. 
C. pseudo-cajan, Jacq. Hort. Vind. vol. ii. t. 119. 
Thora-poru, Rheede, Hort. Mul. vi. t. 13 ; Plum. Ed. Burm, t. 114, f. 2. 
This, the Dal, or Dal urur of Bengal, is one of the most 
widely-diffused and valuable of tropical Pulses, being con- 
sidered in India as next in rank to the Chick Pea (Cicer 
arietinum) and is in use amongst all classes of natives as a 
nutritious esculent. Its seeds are usually eaten mixed with 
rice; the dried wood affords a useful fuel; the charcoal made 
from it is in esteem for gunpowder, and the young shoots 
afford a good cattle-food. There are two principal varieties 
of it described by De Candolle as species, one Lal Toor 
(according to-Drury) of the Hindoos (@. flavus, DC.), with 
yellow flowers and unspotted 2-3-seeded pods; the other, 
Paoud ke Toor, (C. dicolor, DC.) with red stripes on the 
standard and spotted 4-5-seeded pods. Roxburgh also 
describes two varieties, distinguishable chiefly by their size, 
of which the smaller ripens’in half the time of the larger ; 
JULY Ist, 1879. 
