Order 42. Leguminosce. 91 



sericea shrub, hairy, leaflets lanceolate, flowers small, red, in pairs, 

 Konkan, Stocks, etc. (ff.). Not in D. *A. Kulnensis. (Cajanus K. D.) 

 Hairy, leaves rhomboid, ovate with waxy glands below, racemes of 

 about six yellow flowers, bracts round. Wari country (D,)- A. 

 larlata (Cajanus Goensis ) D.') A large twiner, softly hairy, leaflets 

 roundish or ovate, with waxy glands, racemes very long, flowers 

 yellowish, standard large, purple, streaked, pod rather inflated. 

 Bandora and Nasik. Chorla Ghaut (D.). On this the callosity at the 

 base of the wings, which D. made a special mark of, Gen. Cajanus, is 

 very apparent, but H. does not mention it. 



37. CAJANUS. 



O. Indicus. Pigeon-pea. An erect shrub, silky, leaflets 

 oblong lanceolate, flowers yellow, often veined with red, pod 2 

 or 3 inches long. Tur, ddl. 



Doubtfully wild, but cultivated all over India for the grain, and 

 the stalks used in making gunpowder. 



38. CYLISTA. 



0. scariosa. A climber with ovate wrinkled downy 

 leaves, flowers in racemes, the calyx large and withered- 

 looking, hiding the rest of the flower, a bract of the same 

 shape soon falls off, corolla yellow, red-streaked, pod almost 

 semicircular, one-seeded. Ran gevra. 



The Konkan. Very common in Salsette, and easily recognizable : 

 also in the Ghauts. 



39. RHYNCOSIA. 



R. minima (R. medicaginea, D.). A slender twiner, leaflets 

 ovate cuneate, flowers in racemes, yellow, streaked with brown, 

 pod scimitar-shaped, 2-seeded, much longer than the calyx. 



Common in hedges. Everywhere in the plains of India (-H".). 



R. Cyanosperma'(Cyanospermum tomentosum, D.). A woody hairy 

 climber, leaflets with large stipels, flowers yellow, red or white, 

 calyx lobes broad leafy, bracts large, pod of 2 round lobes, each 

 with one large dark-blue seed. S. Ghaut (D.). I have seen it only at 

 Kew. 



40. FLEMINGIA. 



F. strdbilifera. A tall, straggling shrub with simple ovate 

 leaves, and racemes of small white flowers streaked with violet, 

 enclosed in large green-veined bracts, which are roundish, 

 deeply cordate and folded close together : pod short. Bundar, 

 Kdn phuti. 



Common on the Ghauts and Konkan hiUs : and throughout India 



