4 Attlosia.] 13. PAPILIONACE&. [8. Shutzbja. 



The seeds are said to be eaten. Campbell says that the plant is given 

 to cattle for diarrhoea. 



None of my specimens have the leaves glandular, though this character 

 is always given as generic. 



Qajanus indicus, Spreng. Arhi, K.; Arhar, H. ; The Pigeon Pea or 



An erect shrub 4-8 ft. high with slender grey silky grooved branches" 

 hairy leaflets lj-2f long and yellow flowers f long in axillary racemes 

 or terminal panicles. Pod 2-3", 3-5-seeded with oblique depression 

 between the seeds. Generally cultivated, but not on a large scale. 



Teramnus labial is, Spreng. A slender climbing shrub with sparsely 

 hairy stem and 3-fol. leaves. Lfits. ell. or rhomboid acute 1J-2" appressed 

 hairy beneath. Fls. &' reddish in slender racemes 1-4' long. Pod* linear 

 falcate 1J-8" beaked, twisted when ripe. Seeds red oblong. 

 Palamau, frequent. Parasnath. Fl. Sept.-Oct. Fr. Nov. 



Glycine hispida, Maxim Hende disum Horec', S. ; Gari-Kalai, 

 Beng., is a sub-erect annual herb distinguished from Teramnus by the' 

 alternate anthers being abortive. It is occasionally cultivated 



8. Shuteria, W. 8f A, 



Climbers with 3-foliolate atipellate leaves and conspicuona 

 persistent bracts and bracteoles. Flowers small or middle- 

 sized racemose. Calyx-tube gibbous ; teeth shorter. Standard 

 not spurred exceeding the wings and united keel petals. 

 Pod flat linear usually recurved, 



1. S. vestita, W.8r A. Var, densiflora. Syn. S. deasi- 

 flora, Benth. 



A slender twiner with pubescent stems, very slender 

 petioles, membranous leaves and small white and purple 

 floWers in dense axillary fascicled racemes remarkable by 

 their persistent brown striate bracts. 



In the damper valleys of Singbhum. Hare. Fl. Uec-Feby. Fr. Jany.- 

 March. 



Lflts. nearly glabrous 1-2 J" attaining rarely 3" by 2", terminal ovate 

 or rhomboid, obtuse or emarginate, apicalate. Kachid very Blender. 

 Racemes f-lf", sessile with hairy raohis. Pedicels $" mostly genunata. 

 Bracteoles lanceolate striate as long as oalyx $-&''.. Corolla A 7 muoh 

 longer than the wings and ke ji, Pod strap-shaped thin 6-8-seeded. 



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