this’ latter is sown in alternate drills with millet (Sorghum 
vulgare) which ripens first, and is cut when the Toor 1s quite 
small. The larger form attains a height of eight feet and 
a circumference of twenty round the extremities of the 
branches, is sown in June, takes nine months to ripen, and 
yields six hundred-fold; the smaller Toor is only half that 
size, is sown in September, and yields only one hundred- 
fold. ‘Though probably a perennial, the Cajanus is treated 
as an annual in India, because it does not produce a good 
second year’s crop, and because the wood is so useful for fuel. 
It is also the best wood for procuring fire from friction. 
Pigeon Pea and Doll are English names given to the 
Cajanus sceds in various parts of the world, and the yellow- 
flowered one (C. flavus) is that most esteemed in the West 
Indies, where it is called the No-eye Pea; whereas the C. 
bicolor, called Congo Pea, is coarser, takes long to boil when 
dried, and is used chiefly by the Negroes. Oflate years 1ts 
cultivation has been introduced on a large scale into Egypt, 
where it is known under the French and other names of 
Embrevade, Poisd’Angole, Pois de sept ans, Cytise des Indes, 
Woondo, Owendo, Mais Indien, Lentille des Soudan, etc. An 
account of it is given by M. Delchevalerie in the “ Belgique 
Horticole” for 1873 p. 35, who describes it as three or four 
times more nutritious than beans or lentils. 
The specimen here figured unites the two Candollean 
species, having the pure yellow flower and small stipelle of 
C. flavus, and the spotted pods of C. décolor; it was raised 
from seeds sent by Dr. King from the Calcutta Botanic 
Gardens, and flowered in March of the present year. It isa 
curous fact that, well and widely as this plant is known, its 
native country is undiscovered. Can it be still to be found 
In Western China, or Cochin-China ? —J. D. H. 
_Fig. 1, wing; 2 and 3,keel; 4, stamens; 5, valve of pod; 6 and 3, side and 
hilum aspect of seed :—all enlurged. 
