296 CALYClFLOItiE, 



1. Cajanus bicolor. Pigeon or Congo Pea, 



Standard externally discoloured, legumes 4-5- 

 seeded spotted, stipels nearly equal in length with 

 the petiolules of the lateral leaflets. 



Laburnum humilius, siliqua inter grana et grana juncta, se- 



mine esculento, Sloane, II. 31. — Cytisus fruticosus, Broivne, 296. 



— C. Cajan, Lam. Did. II. 249 — C. pseudo-cajan, Jacq. Hort. 



Vind. II. t. 119. — Cajanus bicolor, De Cand. Hort. 3Ionsp. 85. 



HAB. Native of the East Indies. Cultivated. 



FL. Spring. 



A shrub, 5-6 feet in height : branches erect, fastigiate, an- 

 gulose ; the angles prominent, downy. Leaflets puberulous 

 above, hoary and velvety, with numerous minute yellow glan- 

 dules, in the interstices of the reticulated nerves, beneath. Sti- 

 pels lanceolate, acute. Racemes shorter than the leaves, axil- 

 lary, erect, of about 8 flowers : peduncle angulose : pedicels 

 terete, filiform, puberulous, elongating on the maturation of the 

 legume. Calyx 5-nerved, discoloured with brownish purple. 

 Wings yellow with an orange-coloured stain. Ovary and the 

 inferior portion of the style villous. Legumes usually 5-seeded, 

 dark purple along the edges and strangulations, pubescent with 

 yellow hairs seated on minute viscid glandules. Seeds spheri- 

 cal, compressed, dotted with purple especially around the 

 hilura. 



2. Cajanus flavus. No-Eye Pea. 



. Standard externally of an uniform colour, legumes 

 2-3-seeded, and, as also the calices, not spotted, sti- 

 pels of the lateral leaflets half the length of the pe- 

 tiolules. 



Cytisus cajan, Linn. Spec. 1041. — Jacq. Obs. I. t. 1. — Flum. 

 ed. Burm. t. 1 14. f. 2. 



HAB. Native of the East Indies, and now cultivated in all 

 the warm districts of America. 



FL. Beginning of Summer. 



The general description of the preceding species applies, in 

 nearly every respect, to this which we are at present consider- 

 ing. The exceptions are, that in this the corolla is of an 

 uniform yellow colour, the calyx, seeds, and legume are free 

 of any spots, and the last has very little of that viscidity, which 

 we noticed as belonging to the C. bicolor. The general ap- 

 pearance of both is very much alike, and they can scarcely, pre- 

 vious to flowering, be distinguished from one another, except 

 that the leaves of the C. flavus are rather smaller and finer 

 to the touch. 



