382 xLViii. r.EGUMiNos.*:. 



rice aa a second crop and is cut in February and March. It is a favorite crop on the 

 sloping lands along tiic banks of rivers, as well as in river-beds. See Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. I.e. — Disxurn. Tropics of tlie Old World. 



Dolichos bijlonis, liiun. Sj). PI. (1753) p. 727. A suberect {D. tmijlurus, 

 Lanik.) or twining {D. bijlorus, Linn.) annual with yellow flowers and 

 mucl) recurved 5-6-.see(led pods. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 210 ; AVuodr. in 

 Jouni. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (lSiJ7) p. 425; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 3, p. 175. Dolichos uniflorus, Lamk. Encyc. Motbod. v. 2, p. 209 ; 

 Grail. Cat. p. 52 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 23. Johnia conjcsta, Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bo. El. (18G1) p. 09 &. Suppl. p. 23. — A'ekn. Kulith ; Huhja. 



E.xtensivelj' cultivated, especially tliroughout tlie Deccan, but not wild. In tlie 

 Deccan it is usually sown in June and cut in November, but in districts witL a heavy 

 rainfall (e.y. Tiiana) it is sometiuies sown as a cold-season crop in November, after 

 the rice-crops have been cut, and reaped in Marcli. The grain, which is known as 

 horse-grnni or Madru'i (jram, vi\\en boiled Mud mixed with the ordinary gram {Cicer 

 (irictiuum), is a good food for horses, and the leaves and stalks furnish good fodder. 

 See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c— Dlstrib. Tropics of the Old World. 



50. ATYLOSIA, AVigbt & Arn. 



Herbs or shrubs erect or twining. Leaves pinnately or (rarely) 

 digitately ;5-foliolate. Leaflets usually exstipellate, dotted with resinous 

 glands beneath. Flowers usually yellow, fascicled in the leat'-axils, or 

 irregularly fasciculato-raceinose at the ape.x of an axillary peduncle, 

 or the upper paiiicled ; bracts usually broad, membranous, deciduous 

 long before flowering. Calyx-teeth distinct, the lowest the longest, the 



2 upper connate into one entire or bifid tooth. Corolla more or less 

 exserted ; standard orbicular, with inflexed auricles at the base ; keel 

 obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile ; ovules 



3 or more : style filiform, incurved, glabrous ; stigma capitate. Pod 

 linear or oblong, usually obtuse, more or less compressed, marked with 

 transverse lines beneath the seeds outside, septate within. Seeds with 

 a conspicuous divided strophiole. — Distkib. Tropical Asia, Australia, 

 Mauritius ; species about 'lH. 



Erect shrubs. 



Leaflets obovate-oblong, 2-2 J times as long as broad 1. A. line'ita. 



liCaflets oblanceolate, .0-6 times as long as broad 2. A. sericm. 



Climbing or trailing lierbs. 

 Leaflets stipellate. 



Pod rounded at bot li ends '6. A. crassa. 



Pod narrowed at both ends 4. A. yoensu. 



Leaflets exstipellate. 



Pod f in. broad, with deep lines between the seeds ij. A. 6carali(eoidcs. 



Pod ^ in. broad, with sharply-defined (not deep) lines 

 between the seeds fi. A. platycarpa. 



\. Atylosia lineata, \Vi<iht ,.\ Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 2.jb. An erect 

 shrub about 2 ft. high : stem and branches sulcate, densely clothed with 

 soft hairs. Jieaves cJ-foliolate : petioles -\-h in. long, terete, pubescent ; 

 stipules ', in. long, bnear-subulate, hairy. Leaflets 4-I5 by \-k in., 

 obovate, acute or subobtuse, faintly mucronate, densely silky-\illou8 

 when young on both surfaces (more so on the lower), becoming nearly 

 glabrous when mature, cuueate at the base, 3-nerved and reticulately 

 veined (the reticulations visible after the hairs fall); petiolules very 



