Dolichos. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 313 



very downy ; about four inches long and one and a half broad. 

 Petioles ^liglitly channelled. Stipules small, lanceolate. 

 Peduncles axillary, short beaded, niany-Howered. Biactes 

 as in the other species. Floieers large, of a beautiful blue 

 colour. Wings about half the length of the banner and keel, 

 broad, irregularly angle-lobed, keeled on the underside, and 

 on the u|)|)er and inner angle. Lefjumcs pendulous, very 

 hairy, from four to five inches long, as thick as a goose-quill, 

 straight, cylindric, intercepted between the seeds. Seeds 

 from eight to twelve, reniforni, shining- black. Cattle eat the 

 straw of this plant. 



IG. D. biflorns. Willd. iii. 1051. 



Annual. Stem erect ; branches twining, hairy. Leaflets 

 oblong, pointed. Flowers axillary. Legumes scimitar- 

 shaped, reHexed, hairy, from five to six-seeded. 



Sans. Koob/ttha. 



Beng. Koolthee. 



Teling. Woolawa the name of the plant, and woolawaloo 

 the "rain. Horse-uram plant on the Coroniandel coast. 



This species 1 have never found but in a cultivated state. 

 It is annual. 



Stem very short, erect ; branches twining ; tender parts 

 hairy, the whole plant is from two to three feet high. Leaves 

 ternate. Leaflets broad-lanceolate, or oblong, equal, entire, 

 downy, about an inch long, and half an inch broad. Stipules 

 of the petioles oblong; of the leaHets subulate. Floieers 

 axillary, small, sulphur coloured, generally each has its pro- 

 per peduncle, though sometimes it is common to more flowers 

 than one. Hractes lanceolate, one at the origin of e ich pe- 

 duncle or pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally. 

 Calgx, the upper lip slightly emarginate. Banner obcordate, 

 emaroinate. Wants the callous bodies. Winns linear. Le- 

 grimes, direction various, scimitar-formed, compressed, about 

 two inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad, hairy, with 

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