349 



hirsiitis, interinedio rhomboideo obtuso, lateralibus extus 

 dilatatis. (Suppl. Tab. XIII.) 



Carpopogon pruriens. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 54. 



Doliclios pruriens. Roxb. Drawing in Mus. of E. Ind. C. n. 



284. [an Linn, et alior.) 

 Stizolobium pruriens. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 252. ? 

 Nai Corana. Rheed. Malab. v. 8, p. 61. t. 35. 

 Cacara pruritus. Rumph. Amb. v. 6. p. 393. t. 142. 

 Poonepoosikie. Tamul. 



Stems suffruticose, twining, branched ; branches rounded, 

 hairy. Petioles much enlarged at the base, 6-8 inches long, 

 cylindrical, hairy. Leaves ternate, middle leaflet rhomboid, 

 or rhomboideo-elliptical, obtuse, mucronate; lateral ones 

 much dilated on the outside, and also mucronate ; on short, 

 thick, rusty, tomentose stalks ; above nearly glabrous, below 

 silvery, from short appressed white hairs : the veins very 

 prominent beneath. Stipules filiform-subulate, those of the 

 leaflets much smaller than the others. Racemes peduncled, 

 axillary, pendulous, much shorter than the petioles, thyrsoid. 

 Flowers large, purple. Pedicels in threes, short, arising from 

 a small thick tubercle. Calyx pubescent, 2-lipped; upper lip 

 entire, obtuse; under one 3-cleft, the lobes acute. Corolla: 

 Vexillum not half the length of the keel, varying in colour 

 from dirty-white to pale-purple ; Wings shorter than the keel, 

 dark purple; Keel cylindrical to near the end, where it sud- 

 denly curves upwards, and terminates in a sharp spinous point. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; Anthers alternately linear and globular. 

 Pistil: Germen short, hairy; Style filiform, pubescent for its 

 whole length ; Stigma subcapitate. Legume 3-4 inches long, 

 and bent at the extremities, three-fourths of an inch to an inch, 

 or very nearly so, broad, slightly compressed on the valves, 

 not at all carinated, contracted between the seeds, and hence 

 subtorulose, entirely covered with a thick coating of erect, 

 white, prurient* hairs, which usually turn black in drying, and 



* The American D. pruriens is the famous Cowhage or Cow-itch, employed 

 as a vermifuge in the West Indies. 



