312 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Dolichos. 
beads, and strung and worn round the neck to cure purging 
in children. 
14, D. glutinosus, Roxb. 
Annual, twining, the whole plant ghitingat: Racemes 
longer than the leaves, with single, alternate yellow flowers. 
Legumes lanceolate, cuspidate, two-seeded, 
Beng. Shim-bhatraji. 
Teling. Kar-Kandi, 
A native of hedges and unfrequented places ; it is by no 
means a common species. Flowers during the cold season. 
Siem biennial, or perennial, from four to five feet long, 
twining, downy; the young shoots are particularly so, and 
glutinous. Leaves ternate. Leaflets, the lateral pair have 
their outside remarkably large, and the inside lanceolate, the 
terminal one broad-rhombed, all are acute and covered with 
glutinous down, Stipules of the petioles cordate, spreading ; 
those of the leaflets subulate. Racemes axillary, peduncled, 
longer than the leaves, erect, many-flowered. Bractes of the 
pedicel single, oval, concave, one-flowered, caducous. Flow- 
ers pretty large, yellow. Banner obcordate; the callosities 
are remarkably large. Legumes reflexed, a little lanceolate, 
protuberant, five-pointed, covered with much glutinous hair, 
two-seeded, Seeds kidney-form, shining, smooth, gray. 
I know of no use to which this is put. Cattle do not eat it. 
V5. D. pilosus, Willd. iii. 1043. 
Perennial, twining, very hairy. Flowers on short axillary 
racemes. Wings two horned, Legumes cylindric, pointed, 
very hairy, from eight to twelve-seeded. 
Beng. Malkonia, 
| A rare annual species, found in hedges where the init is 
good, Flowers during the cold season. 
Stem perennial, twining, from three to six feet long, cover- 
ed with much soft, white hair. Leaves ternate. Leaflets of 
the same general form of the rest of the family, but narrower, 
