8. Shutbbia.] 43. PAPIZIONACHJS. [11. Pttebaeu. 



Prain (Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal) says that this-gpecies is very 

 distinct from S. vestita and that it is easily recognized by its glabrous 

 pods and by the more horizontal, early-forking secondary nerves of its 

 larger leaflets. 



Dumasia villosa, V.C. 



A slender twiner with stems densely clothed with grey or ferruginous 

 Tiairs. 



Fls. racemed, 3'^ long. Calyx with obliquely truncate month. Corolla 

 fr-f" yellow or purplish. Pod If velvety, 3-4-seeded. 

 Only reported from Parasnath. 



10. Canavalia, D.C. 



Stout twining herbs with stipellate 3-foliolate leaves and 

 showy flowers fascicled on a nodose rachis. Calyx 2 -lipped. 

 'Wings shorter than the large ronnded standard, equalling 

 the incurved obtuse keel. Pod large with a distinct rib on 

 either side of the upper suture. 



1. C. ensiformis, D>0> Tihon, 8.-, Makhan sini, B§ng. 



"Wide-rambling and twining. Lflts. glabrous or with few adpressed 

 hairs above, 4-6'' ovate aoute. Peduncles and racemes each 3-6" or ped- 

 uncle attaining 12" and raceme few-flowered. Fls. geminate 1£*. 

 Pedicels very short. Calyx %" with short teeth of which 2 upper larger 

 projecting rounded and 3 lower acute. Standard 1* broad red-purple 

 jotase strongly reflexed, claw 0, base auricled. Wings waved auricled. 

 Pod 6-9" by 1-1**. 



Cultivated and often apparently wild. Fls. Aug.-Oct. Fr. Sept.- 

 Vov. The pods are used as vegetables. 



'2. €. virosa, W- $" ^- (Syn. C. ensiformis var. virosa). 



This is regarded by Baker merely as the wild form of 

 the last, but is kept distinct by Prain who distinguishes it by 

 the leaflets being obovate and by the pod being narrower, 

 on ly 1 -J" wide and fewer-seeded, seeds 4-6 instead of 8-12. 



Chota Nagpur, Prain (in Wood's list). 



11. Pneraria, B.C. 



Twining shrubs or herbs with stipellate 3-fol. leaves and 

 often showy flowers fascicled on the swollen nodes of long 



