;iOS ILVIII. LEGUMINOSvE. 



2. Lotus Garcini, DC. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 212. Suffrulicose, 

 reacbiiig scarcely 1 ft. high ; branches many from a little above the 

 base, covered with short grey silky hairs. Lt^aves 3- or o-foliolate ; 

 leaflets 5-j\ by -f-^ in., sessile (3 when the stipule-like pair is absent or 

 5 when that pair is present), fleshy, pale, obovate-cuneate, obtuse or 

 retuse. clothed on both sides with grey hairs. Flouei-s sessile, axillary, 

 solitary. Calyx \—f)r in. long, clothed with long white hairs ; teeth 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, twice as long as the tube. Corolla a little 

 longer than the calyx : standard orbicular, clawed. Pods g-^ i". long, 

 li times as long as the calyx, glabrous or pubescent, linear, straight, 

 compressed, black when ripe. Seeds about 6. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 91 ; 

 Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 40 ; Woodr. in .Touru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 421. Lotus StocJcsii, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 2, p. 174. — Flowers : Nov.- 

 Dec. 



Gujarat : Porbandaf, Cooke I, Wbodroto. Sind : Vicari/, Stocks, 563 1 ; sandy 

 ground near the sea, Dahdl, 22!; Jemadar ka Lauda (near Karachi), Sfoc/csl — 

 DiSTRiB. Through Persia to Nubia. 



10. CYAMOPSIS, DC. 



Erect herbs with appressed meditixed hairs. Leaves imparipinnate ; 

 stipules small, setaceous ; leaflets usually 3 (rarely many), exstipellate. 

 Flowers small, purplish, in axillary racemes. Calyx oblique ; teeth un- 

 equal, the lowest the longest. Corolla caducous ; standard obovate, 

 sessile ; wings oblong, free from the keel ; keel ei'ect, subincurved, 

 obtuse. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary 

 sessile, niauy-o\ ulate ; style incurved at the apex ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear, subtetragonous, acuminate, 2-valved, septate between the 

 seeds. Seeds square, compressed. — Distbib. Species 2, one Indian, the 

 other Arabian and Tropical African. 



1. Cyamopsis psoralioideS) DC. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 210, An 

 erect annual, 2-3 ft. high, more or less clothed with appressed medifixed 

 greyish hairs ; stem grooved. Leaves 3-foliohite ; petioles 1-1 1 in. long, 

 sparsely hairy ; stipules {—'^ in. long, linear-subulate, persistent. Leaflets 

 11-3 by 2-2 in., eUiptic, acute, sharply dentate (the teeth usually ending 

 in a weak spine), clothed on both sides with appressed medilixed hairs, 

 base acute ; main nerves prominent ; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 

 g in., those of the terminal one -^-g in. long. Flowers small, purplish, 

 in axillary 6-30-flowered close racemes ; peduncles and pedicels short, 

 hairy ; bracts linear-subulate, persistent, -p^ in. long. Calyx hairy out- 

 side, -l—\ in. long to the extremity of the longest tooth; teeth very 

 unequal, the 2 lowest the longest, linear-subulate, the 3 upper shorter, 

 triangular-acute. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx; standard 

 orbicular, shortly clawed. Pods thick, fleshy, subtetragoual, 1^-2 in. 

 long, slightly pubescent. Seeds 5 or 6, square, slightly com))ressed. 

 FI. B. I. V. 2, p. 92 : Grab. Cat. p. 46 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 21 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 248 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 1 1 (1897) p. 421 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 673. — Flowering time depends on the 

 time of ])lanting. Vbun. Gavdri ; Math't. 



Cultivated in many paits of India from tlio Himalayas 1o Cajtc Cuuioriu. It is 

 j^rown as a vegetable fur human consumption, tlie cooked pods being used as food, or 

 as food for cattle wlien the grain is used as dry, and the whole plant as green fodder, 

 fon-iill Watt, Diet. Econ. Trod. 1. c.-Disrinn. .\fgbanistnn. 



