9O The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



Common in hedges in many parts, and at once noticeable by the 

 size and shape of the standard. Grows abundantly in the Moluccas 

 near the shore, with Vinca rosea (Forfces), and in Trinidad, scrambling 

 over shrubs and walls (Kingsley). 



C. biflora, very like this, but a stout, erect plant, flowers 2 together 

 and smaller, is not common in the Konkan, and is attributed by H. 

 to no other locality in India. 



35. DOLICHOS. 



D. labial (LaUab vulgar is, D.) cultivated in the Konkan as a cold 

 weather crop, pauti, valpdpri, dvri. 



D. Uflorus (Johnia congesta, D.) cultivated in the Deccan, Kulti. 

 Allied to this ^is Psophocarpus tetragonolubus, chevaux-de-f rise bean, 

 chandhari, chdrpatti, flowers very pretty, lilac, with large standard, 

 pod large with membranous jagged wings. 



36. ATYLOSIA. 



1. A. Uneata (A. Lawii, D.). A hairy shrub, leaves palmately 

 trifoliate, long petioled, leaflets small, obovate, flowers solitary, 

 axillary yellow-streaked, pod short, brown, 2 or 3-seeded. Ran 

 tur. 



Mahableshwar and the Ghauts. It may easily be mistaken for a 

 Crotalaria. 



2. A. scaraboeoides (Cantliarospermum pauciflorum, D.). A 

 slender climber, hairy all over, leaflets ovate or obovate, wrinkled 

 and strongly nerved, flowers small, 'yellow, 2 or 3 to a peduncle ; 

 seeds 4 to 6, shining, cream-coloured, with large black divided 



Common in the Konkan. Plains throughout India (ff.). In this 

 and the next the petals fall off before the pods form. 



3. A. rostrata (Cajanus glandulosus, D.). A very handsome 

 climber, all covered with short hairs, petioles long, leaflets more 

 or less ovate, as broad as long, with brown glands below, flowers 

 large, bright yellow in erect racemes, pod linear, nearly straight, 

 constricted between the seeds. Kula, Kuili. 



This seems to be an essentially Konkan species. D. has Malwan 

 and Waghotan ; there is a good deal of it in the B.B. and C.I. Eailway 

 hedges in Salsette in September, but the flowers go off so quickly 

 that it is probably not as often noticed as its beauty deserves. So 

 the broom, " which blazes for a week or two, and is then completely 

 extinguished, like a fire that has burnt itself out." Hamerton. 



This plant is wrongly identified in H. with A. mollis, but this is to 

 be corrected in future editions. 



*A. geminifolia, hairy, leaflets roundish with scattered golden glands, 

 stipules large auricled, flowers stalked in pairs, pod almost membranous, 

 rough; known only to Dalzell, and no definite hab. given. *A. 



