Doliclios LEi.lUMINOS^E 71 



BonavistBean, L;i blab Bean. 



Sloane Herb. iii. 65! Miu-f,i<lij, n ,- llopcwell wood, St. Mary, McXabl 

 Prior; } Resource, Blue Mts., J. P. 1254 Hart ! also Harris \ Hope grounds, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jain. 5094, 10,801 ; Port Antonio, Hitchcock. Widely cultivated, 

 and often naturalized, in the tropics ; native country probably tropical 

 Africa. 



A wide-climbing perennial. Liujlcts ovate-deltoid, lateral somewhat 

 unsyrninetrical, generally 7-12 cm. \. liacan,^ lax, 8-Hl on. 1., at the 

 top of a strong stalk. Bracteoles 4 mm. 1., broadly elliptical, deciduous. 

 G-8 mm. 1., densely hairy on margin between the lobes. Corolla 

 white, purple, or violet; standard nearly 1'5 cm. 1., breadth exceeding 

 1'5 cm. ; wings somewhat triangular, with an auricle above the long claw, 



long as the standard. Pod rough with warty projections along the 

 margins (at any rate in the younger pods), 4-8 cm. 1., 1-8-2 cm. br. S. 

 white, w r hitish-red, dark purple, or black. 



" Planted for food as well as ornament" (Sloane). "The bean is very 

 coarse, scarcely ever cultivated, and seldom made use of, except in times 

 of scarcity" (Macfadyen).] 



9. Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves pinnately 

 3-foliolate or subdigitately 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets with 

 glandular dots beneath, without stipels. Flowers in 

 racemes. Uppermost stamen free. Pod 2-valved. 



[CAJANUS DC. 



An erect undershrub. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate : leaflets 

 with minute resinous dots underneath. Racemes axillary. Calyx : 

 upper 2 lobes united higher up than the rest. Standard roundish, 

 auricled at the base. Uppermost stamen free, the rest united. 

 Style thicker above the middle ; stigma terminal, oblique. Pod 

 compressed, marked outside with oblique depressed lines between 

 the seeds, with indications inside of partitions. 



Species 1, widely cultivated throughout the tropics, probably 

 a native of the Old World. 



C. cajan JliU*^. !n FicJtl Culnmb. Mas. Bot. Ser. //'. ">"> (liJOO). 

 C. indicus tija-mt/. Si/st. Hi. '2 48 (1826) ; Bcutli. in Fl. Jim*. 

 pt. 1, 199 ; Grisel. Fl. Br. W. Intl. 191 ; Urb. N///fc. -I"/- 306. 

 C. bicolor DC. Cat. Hort. J/i,//*/,. fc?.-> (1813) ,t Piv//-. it. IOC. ; 

 JJnt. !!(></. IS!."), t. 31 ; Marf. Jam. i. 296. C. flavus I>( . <',,t. 

 Hort. Monsp. 86 (1813) ^ Prodr. ii. 406 ; Ma,-f. loc. rit. rha<r- 

 olus erectus incanus &c. Pink. /'/////. /. :M.">, /'. ">. Laburnum 

 humilius ifcc. Sloain: Cat. I-!'.' cV ///V/. //..' I. Cytisus f ruticosus 

 erectile i-ainosns ^c. Hrmrtic, Hist. Jam. L )( .'i. C\'t i^u-; iV-. /.. F/. 

 Zeyl. 279. C. cajan L. Sy. PI. 7:i'.i (1753) : Tussac Fl. Ant. ir. 

 t. 3-. C. pseudo-ca j;i n Joi-i/. Hort. Vin<Il>. ii. f. Ill*: \\'ri<//it 

 Mr,,i. L".I:;. Type in Jln-h. Hermann in JL-i-l). 3Lus. !5rit. 



<lungo Pea, Pigeon Pea, No Eye Pi i a. 



Jlarliam in Herb. Sloane clxxxiv. 7! Sloanc Herb. vi. 1! \\~ri(jht\ 

 Purdicl Clordon Town, nail ! Mavis iJank. 



