Cytisus. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 325 
alternate. Leaflets from four to six pair, sub-opposite, lan- 
ceolate, pubescent. Petioles ending ina short, simple tendril, 
which does not take hold of any thing to support the plant. 
Peduncles axillary, the length of the leaves, each supporting 
two small white flowers, and then ending in a short filament 
beyond them. Calyx rather longer than the corol. Stigma 
somewhat villous before. Legume rhomboidal, smooth, con- 
taining two, round, compressed, gray, minutely spotted seeds, 
- The seeds form an article in the diet of the natives, 
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CYTISUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1191. 
Calyx two-lipped; upper division two-parted ; the under 
one three-toothed. Legume attenuated at the base. 
C. Cajan, Willd, iii. 1121. 
Racemes axillary, erect. Leaflets sub-lanceolate. Le- 
gume pointed, and obliquely grooved between the seeds. 
Thora-poru, Rheed, Mal. vi.t,13. Burm, Zeyl. t. 57. 
Beng. Urhur. 
_ Teling. Pedda Candi is thename of the large sort, and Ped- 
da Kandiloo the grain. 
It is much cultivated ; and itis only in that state that I have 
ever found it. To appearance it is a large shrub, of some 
years’ duration, however with the greatest care it seldom 
lives longer than two or three, The natives call it annual, 
because they do not find it bear well the second year; of 
course, after collecting the first crop, a pull it up for fire- 
wood, &c. 
Stem short but straight, woody, often as thick as a man’s 
leg, very ramous. Branches ascending, striated from the in- 
sertion of the leaves ; height of the whole plant from five to ten 
feet. Leavesternate. Leaflets oblong, equal, entire, acute, 
soft, downy, below whitish, about two inches long, and one 
and three quarters broad. Petioles channelled, striated. 
Stipules cordate, pointed, withering. Racemes axillary, as 
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