752. CROTALARIA NoTONII (W. and A.:) suffruti- 
cose, erect : branches divaricating, shortish, tomentose : 
stipules narrow-subulate : leaves slightly approximated, 
trifoliolate, long-petioled ; leaflets cuneate-obovate, 
scarcely retuse, mucronate, rather longer than the 
petiole (from a half to an inch long, and one-third of an 
inch broad); upper side glabrous; under paler, 
sprinkled with minute adpressed hairs; racemes ter- 
minal or leaf-opposed, shortish (2-3 inches long), many- 
flowered: flowers approximated (pretty large): brac- 
teas linear. —W.and A. Prod. p. 192, 
Neilgherries near Kotergherry, August. 
1 Flowering branch—2 detached flower—3 dissect- 
ed flower—4 stamens showing the elongated form of the 
anthers of the shorter series —5 stamens of the longer 
series with their round anthers—6 ovary cut lengthwise 
with 2 ovules—7 legume full grown 1-seeded—8 seed—9 
eut longitudinally shewing the cotyledons and radical— 
—10 Embryo detached. 
753. CANAVALIA GLADIATA (D. C.:) perennial, 
twining, glabrous: leaflets cordate-ovate, rather acute : 
legumes 5-10 times (or more) longer than broad.—W. 
sand A. Prod, 1 p. 253 
A common plant in hedges and thickets much culti- 
vated for the beams which are used asa potherb. 
754. ÅTYLOSIA CANDOLLII (W. and A.:) erect: 
branches straight, twiggy; young parts villous with 
fulvous hairs: leaflets oval; upper side even, pubes- 
cent; under reticulated, shortly tomentose, villous 
on the nerves and margin: stipules lanceolate, acumi- 
nated, spreading: peduncles 2-flowered, longish: 
calyx villous ; segments lanceolate-acuminated, curved 
upwards, lowest one about half the length of the keel : 
spurs of the vexillum introflexed, slightly callous: 
legumes villous.— W. and A. Prod. p. 257. 
Neilgherries, where it is most abundant from an eleva- 
tion ofabout 5500 feet to the top. It seems to be in 
flower at all seasons, flowers yellow. 
1 Flowering braneh—2 dissected flower—3 stamens— 
4 dissected ovary—3 dissected legume—6 detached seed 
showing the carunculus—7 seed cut transversely—8 
embryo detached. 
755. PuaseoLus LuNATUs (Linn. :) biennial, usu- 
ally twining, glabrous or pubescent: leaflets ovate, 
acuminated : stipules minute, reflexed. caducous: ra- 
cemes shorter than the leaves, peduncled, the florifer- 
ous part elongated : pedicels in pairs: bracteoles nar- 
row, small, shorter than the calyx, adpressed, caducous: 
legumes pendulous, setmitar-shaped, long-mucronate, 
not torulose, glabrous, 2-4-seeded : seeds oblong, com- 
pressed.— W. and A. Prod. 1 p. 244. 
Much cultivated but seldom if ever found in a truly 
wild state. A large podded variety of this is the well 
known “ Duffen Bean” of India, said to have been intro- 
duced by Dr. Duffen from the Mauritius, whence the name. 
756. Desmantuus TRiQuITRUS (Willd. :) bi-trien- 
nial, prostrate: stem compressed, triquetrous below : 
leaves bipinnated; pinne 2-3 pair ; leaflets 10-12 
pair: stipules subulate : peduncles axillary, solitary, 
naked or with 2 caducous bracteas about the middle : 
flowers globular-headed ; 5-petaled, decandrous; le- 
gumes stalked, linear-oblong, equal-sided, 4-6-seeded. ` 
—W.and A. Prod. 1 p. 270. E #5 
Found in wet pasture ground near the coast flowering 
during the rains. The specimen here figured was gather = 
ed at Madras. — o m ee شد‎ 
1 A small plant natural size—2 a fert 
ی 
flower—4 stamens—5 d 
- brittle and bony, with 4 
| matic especially near the coast but not common so far as 
suppl. 126; DC. 
"Host Cor. 3. t. 233 2 A. Ind. l. p. 
757. Cassta (SENNA) ontusa (Roxb.: ን perennial, 
herbaceous, diffuse, procumbent, branches glabrous : 
leaflets 4-6 pair, obtuse, mucronate, unequal at the 
base, glabrous : petioles and rachis without glands: 
stipules lanceeolate-subulate, tapering, spreading, per- 
sistent : racemes axillary, few-flowered, much shorter 
than the leaves: pedicels without bracteas, legumes _ 
lunate, broad, thin, obtuse; valves protuberant and ` 
slightly angled but scarcely crested at the seeds.— W. 
and A. Prod. 1 p. 288. 
Frequent in pastures and cultivated grounds all over 
the Southern provinces of India. Is much used by the 
natives as a substitute for Senna. 
758. Bryonia MYSORENSIS (Klein. in herb. Madr. !) 
stems glabrous, smooth : tendrils simple : leaves cor- 
date, repand-toothed, usually 5-angled or lobed ; slight- 
ly scabrous: male flowers in a simple or proliferous 
umbel at the apex ofa long slender peduncle; female 
very shortly peduncled, solitary, often in the same axils 
with the males, rarely several umbellate at the 
apex of a long peduncle : calyx-tube and ovary narrow- 
oval: berry longish-oval, glabrous, copiously marked 
before maturity with small shallow pits : seeds smooth, 
surrounded with a zone, quite flat on the sides, —W. 
and A. Prod. p. 1 345. 
Mysore, Neilgherries, &c. climbing among hedges 
and bushes. Between this and B. Hookeriana, extended 
and more careful observation has satisfied me there is 
no difference, nothing being more common than to find 
both forms on the same plant er even on the same branch, 
1 Flowering branch—2 male flower—3 same dissect- 
ed—4 stamens—5 female flower—6 same dissected—7 
umbel of fertile flowers—8 ovary cut vertically—9 ovary 
cut transversely—10 a berry nearly mature cut trans- ` 
versely. 
(759) GARDENIA LATIFOLIA. (Ait :( arboreous, un- 
armed : leaves opposite or in threes, very shortly pe- 
tioled, oval or obovate, glabrous, with a small hairy 
gland in the axils of the nerves on the under side : flow- 
ers terminal, solitary, very shortly pedicelled (pedicels — 
scarcely a line long): limb of the calyx campanulate, | 
irregularly divided, hirsute on the inside: corolla hypo- 
crateri-form ; tube long, hirsute on the outside; limb 
about 9-cleft, the divisions obliquely obovate, about ` ` 
half the length of the tube, hirsute towards the one نت‎ 
margin on the outside : stigma clavate, thick and fleshy, تت‎ . 
bipartite, segments bifid : berry even, nearly globose, > 
crowned with the whole limb of the calyx; nut*thin, — — 
parietal receptacles.—W. and — تآ‎ 
A. Prod. 1 p. 395, 
` Found in thickets and subalpine jungles in the Car- ` ae 
I have had an opportunity of observing. 
prod. se Spr. sy 
p- 118. 1.25.—W. and 
380: Wall! L. n. 6205 
rrissus anceps, Gertn. fr. 1 
Prod. 1 p. 441. E = 
