Dolichos, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 318 
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very downy ; about four inches long and one and a half broad. 
Petioles slightly chamelled. Stipules. small, lanceolate. 
Peduncles axillary, short headed, many-flowered. Bractes 
as in the other species. Flowers large, of a beautiful blue 
colour. Wings about half the length of the banner and keel, 
broad, irregularly angle-lobed, keeled on the under side, and 
on the,upper and inner angle. Legumes pendulous, very 
hairy, from four to five inches long, as thick asa goose-quill, 
straight, cylindric, intercepted between the seeds, Seeds 
from eight to twelve, reniform, shining black. Cattle eat the 
straw of this plant. 
16. D. biflorus, Willd. iti. 1051. 
Annual, Stem erect; branches twining, hairy, Leaflets 
oblong, pointed. Flowers axillary, Legumes scimitar- ~ 
shaped, reflexed, hairy, trom five to six-seeded, 
Sans, Kooluttha. 
Beny. Koolthee. 
Teling. Woolawa the name of the plant, and woolawaloo 
the grain. Horse-gram plant on the Coromandel coast. 
This species I have never found but in a cultivated state, 
It is annual. 
Siem very short, erect; branches twining ; tender parts 
hairy, the whole plant is from two to three feet high, Leaves 
ternate. Leaflets broad-lanceolate, or oblong, equal, entire, 
downy, about an inch long, and half an inch broad. Stipules 
of the petioles oblong; of the leaflets subulate. Flowers 
axillary, small, sulphur coloured, generally each has its pro- 
per peduncle, though sometimes it is common to more flowers 
than one. Bracies lanceolate, one at the origin of each pe- 
duncle or pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally. 
Calyx, the upper lip slightly emarginate. Banner obcordate, 
emarginate, Wants the callous bodies, Wings linear.  Le- 
gumes, direction various, scimitar-formed, compressed, about 
two inches long, =e a eyene of an inch eats marie ls “eh 
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