284 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Carpopogon, 
one-seeded, and armed with very stiff ferruginous burning 
hairs. 
Teling. Pedda, or Enooga doola-gunda, which means the 
larger or Elephant’s scrateh wort. 
This species is perennial, and as large as any of the twin- 
ing Dolichoses I know. It is a native of hedges, and thickets, 
on the banks of rivers, and water courses. Flowers during 
the cold season. Seeds ripen in April. 
Stem woody, perennial, twining, branchy; young shoots 
covered with brown down. Leaves ternate. Leaflets ovate, 
acute, downy on the under side; when young they are cover- 
ed with much rust-coloured down ; about three inches and a 
half long and two broad, Stipules of the petioles lanceolate, 
hairy, falling, those of the leaflets subulate. Umbels axillary, 
short-peduncled, drooping from the weight of the flowers. 
Bractes and flowers as in C. pruriens, Calyx covered with 
burning hairs, unequally five-toothed, the undermost long 
and pointed, the rest scarcely appear above the margins of 
the cup. Corol, stamens and pistil as in C. pruriens. Le- 
gume semi-oval, deeply grooved on the back, as in Lathy- 
rus sativus, very much wrinkled, pointed, about three inches _ 
long and two broad, covered with much, exceedingly stiff, 
brown hair, which produces a greater degree of pain and itch- 
ing than that of C. pruriens, Seed solitary, kidney-formed, 
of the size of the first joint of the thumb, the convex side is 
——? surrounded with the hilum, 
_ [know of no use any a of this plant is put to, Cattle do 
not eat it. ’ 
3. C. capitatum. R. 
Annual, twining, Heads axillary, sub-sessile. Sagune 
armed with soft, velvet-like down. 
-Teling. Soorootoo, — 
This I have only found in a cultivated state, and that du- 
ring the cold season, in the gardens of the natives. itasan 
annual, ike 
