302 DIADELPllIA DECANDRIA. DoUckoS. 



mes axillary, solitary, as long, or longer than the leaves, sub- 

 seciuid. Floivers in pairs, on rouutl glands, scattered over 

 the exterior half of the rachis, large, of a beautiful rosy pur- 

 ple. Calyx bilabiate ; upper lip of two broad, circular lobes ; 

 the under one three-toothed and small. Banner erect, round- 

 ish, emarginate. Wi?igs and keel falcate, Stjjle and stigma 

 smooth. Legumes linear, scimitar-shaped, smooth, from four 

 to six inches long. Hard, tough, with the upper margin three- 

 keeled, or two-groved, as in D. glaaiatns and rotunilifolius. 

 Seeds from four to eight, oblong, considerably larger than a 

 field bean, smooth, light gray ; each enveloped in a white, 

 tough, membranaceous aril. 



I do not find that any part of this species is in any shape 

 useful to the natives, or others ; indeed the natives of Coro- 

 mandel, \Ahere the plant is common, reckon it poisonous, 

 which is corroborated by Van Rheed. 



3. D. rotimdifolius. Vahl. Synih. ii. p. 81. Willd, iii. 

 1040. 



Biennial, twining, smooth ; leaflets obovate, rotund. Le- 

 gumes semi-elliptic, from three to four inches long. Bark 

 three-keeled. Seeds from three to five, obovate, gray, in a 

 common membranaceous aril. 



Katu-Tsjandi. Rheed. Mai. viii. t. 4^1, which is also 

 quoted by Lamarck for liis D, ohlusiJ'oUus. Encycl. ii. 295. 



A native of tlie Islands about the mouth of the river Go- 

 daveri, &c. on the coast of Coromandel. Flowering time the 

 rainy season. 



4. D. sinensis. Willd. iii. 1038. 



Annual, twining, smoolh. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 many-flowered. Legumes long, pendulous, cylindric, torose. 

 Hind. Lobia. 

 Teling. Alsanda. 

 J^Tew. Haco-bhati. 

 D. sinensis. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 134. 



