324 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Cicer. 
Beng. Musoor chuna. 
Hind, Jhunjbuni-ankari. 
Stems numerous, slender, four-sided, smooth. Peduncles 
shorter than the leaves, from three to six-flowered. Tendril 
three-cleft, from ten to twelve-leaved, Leaflets sub-alter- 
nate, linear, smooth. Stipules subulate, often pinnatifid. 
Legumes hairy, two-seeded. Seeds globular. 
This is a small, delicate annual, a native of Bengal, It ap- 
pears during the cold season on cultivated lands. In the in- 
terior provinces it is cultivated for fodder, 
CICER. Schreb. gen. N. 1189. 
Calyx five-parted, the length of the corol ; the four seg- 
ments incumbent on the banner. Legume rhombed, turgid, 
two-seeded. 
1, C. arietinum, Willd, iii, 1113. 
Leaflets serrate, 
Chick pea. 
Sunaga, the Telinga name of the plant, and t Sutiagetids the 
grain. 
Beng. Boot, Boot kuluy, or Chola. 
- Very universally cultivated throughout India during the 
ae season, 
=e C. ales Willd. i ili. 14. 
Erect, ramous, pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, entire. 
' Peduneles two-flowered, with an abortive pedicel. Calyx 
rather longer than the corol. Legume two-seeded. 
_ Beng. and Hind, Mussoor, 
This plant is cultivated to considerable extent “ the na- 
tives of Bengal, and other 6 ijeinine provinces, during the 
- cold season. 
Stem short, erect, very} ramous. ive calvccecintie 
lar, downy ; whole plant from one to two feet high. Leaves 
