Dolichos LEGUMINOSiE 71 



Bonavist Bean, Lablab Bean. 



Sloane Herb. iii. 65 ! Macfadyen ; Hopewell wood, St. Mary, McNab ! 

 Prior; Resource, Blue Mts., J. P. 1254 Hart 1 also Harris ! Hope grounds, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5594, 10,801 ; Fort Antonio, Hitchcock. — Widely cultivated, 

 and often naturalized, in the tropics ; native country probably tropical 

 Africa. 



A wide-climbing perennial. Leaflets ovate-deltoid, lateral somewhat 

 unsymmetrical, generally 7-12 cm. 1. Racemes lax, 8-16 cm. 1., at the 

 top of a strong stalir. Bracteoles 4 mm. 1., broadly elliptical, deciduous. 

 Calyx 6-8 mm. 1., densely hairy on margin between the lobes. Corolla 

 white, purple, or violet; standard nearly 1*5 cm. 1., breadth exceeding 

 1'5 cm. ; wings somewhat triangular^ with an auricle above the long claw, 

 as long as the standard. Pod rough with warty projections along the 

 margins (at any rate in the younger pods), 4-8 cm. 1., 1*8-2 cm. br. Seeds 

 white, whitish-red, dark purple, or black. 



" Planted for food as well as ornament" (Sloane). "The bean is very 

 coarse, scarcely ever cultivated, and seldom made use of, except in times 

 of scarcity" (Macfadyen).] 



§ 9. Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves pinnately 

 3-foliolate or subdigitately 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets with 

 glandular dots beneath, without stipels. Flowers in 

 racemes. Uppermost stamen free. Pod 2-valved. 



[CAJANUS DC. 



An erect undershrub. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 with minute resinous dots underneath. Racemes axillary. Calyx : 

 upper 2 lobes united higher up than the rest. Standard roundish, 

 auricled at the base. Uppermost stamen free, the rest united. 

 Style thicker above the middle ; stigma terminal, oblique. Pod 

 compressed, marked outside with oblique depressed lines between 

 the seeds, with indications inside of partitions. 



Species 1, widely cultivated throughout the tropics, proljably 

 a native of the Old World. 



C. eajan Millsp. in Field Golumh. Mus. Bot. Ser. ii. 53 (1900). 

 C. indicus Spreng. Syst. iii. 248 (1826); Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. 

 pt. 1, 199; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 191 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 306. 

 C. bicolor DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 85 (1813) & Prodr. ii. 406; 



f Bot. Beg. 1845, t. 31 ; Macf. Jam. i. 296. C. flavus DC. Cat. 

 Hort. Monsp. 86 (1813) & Prodr. ii. 406 ; Macf. loc. cit. Phase- 

 olus erectus incanus &c. Plulc. Phyt. t. 213, /. 3. Laburnum 

 humilius &c. Sloane Cat. 139 & Hist. ii. 31. Cytisus fruticosus 

 erectus ramosus &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 296. Cytisus &c. L. Fl. 



I Zeyl. 279. C. cajan L. Sp. PL 739 (1753) ; Tussac Fl. Ant. iv. 



>■ t. 32. C. pseudo-cajan Jacq. Hort. Vindob. ii. t. 119; Wright 



|; Mem. 293. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



' GungoPea, PigeonPea, NoEyePea. 



Barham in Herb. Sloane clxxxiv. 7! Sloane Herb. vi. 1! WrigJit \ 

 Purdie 1 Gordon Town, Ball 1 Mavis Bank. 



