208 L4 LEGUMiNOS-aa. (J. G. Baker.) [PacliyrMzus. 



Cultivated throughout our limits, but not known in a wild state. DISTRIB. 

 Everywhere in the tropics. 



Root a large tuber, like a turnip, which is eaten both raw and boiled. Stems wide- 

 twining, suffruticose, clothed with short deciduous pubescence. Leaflets large, mem- 

 branous, glabrous, as broad as long, deeply or shallowly lobed in the upper half, the 

 base deltoid. Racemes lax, ^-1 ft., the lower nodes often prolonged into short 

 branches ; bracteoles setaceous. Calyx ^ in., as long as the pedicel. (70r0WaLjCsddisk$ 

 1 in. or more long. Pod 6-9 in. long, 8-1 2-seeded, straight, glabrescent. **-<Yl I 



70. CZiZTORIA, Linn. 



Scandent or suberect uudershrubs, with the most showy flowers of all the 

 Phaseolece, 3-7-foliolate leaves, stipellate leaflets and persistent membranous small 

 stipules and bracts and large bracteoles. Calyx membranous, tubular; teeth 

 deltoid or lanceolate. Corolla much exserted ; standard spoon-shaped, very 

 large ; wings and incurved keel much shorter. Stamens monadelphous or 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, 

 .flattened, bearded along the inner side. Pod linear, flattish or turgid. DISTRIB. 

 Species 27, in tropics of old and new world, mostly the latter. 



3N. 1. Ternatea. Pod flattish, the valves not keeled on the face. 



l.*v. 'Ternatea, Linn. ; DC. Prod?: ii. 233 ; stems terete soandent, pe- 

 tioles short, leaflets o -7. flowers solitary, bracteoles large. Wall. Cat. 5344 ; 

 BoL Mag. t. 1542 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 321 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 205 ; Dak. 8? 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 68. ^ 



Tropical zone from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON, BIRMA, and MALACCA. DISTRIB. Cos- 

 mopolitan in the tropics, common in cultivation. 



A climber, with slender downy stems. Stipules minute, linear ; petiole ^1 in. ; leaf- 

 lets ovate or oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, 1-2 in. long. Bracteoles roundish, obtuse, 

 - ^ in. long. Calyx | | in. ; teeth lanceolate, half as long as the tube. Corolla 

 1^-2 yi. ; standard 1 in. broad, bright blue, with an orange centre. Pod 2-4 in. long, 

 6-10-seeded. 



VAR. 1. pilosula, Wall. Cat. 5347 (sp.) ; leaflets and flowers much smaller, the 

 former ^-f in. long, standard white an inch long Guzerat, Stocks. 



2. C. foiflora, Dalz. in Kew Journ. ii. 35 ; stems suberect angular, petioles 

 very short, leaflets 5, flowers geminate, bracteoles large. Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 68. 



In the CONCAN, common ; Dalzell, Stocks, Law. 



Scarcely shrubby, the young branches densely pubescent. Stipules minute, lan- 

 ceolate ; petiole \-% in. ; leaflets membranous, 2-3 in. long, ovate or oblong, usually 

 acute. Flcwers copious, scarcely peduncled ; bracteoles ^~ g- in., ovate or lanceolate 

 aristate. Calyx ^-f in. ; teeth shorter than the tube, lanceolate, aristate. Corolla 

 like that of the last, but much smaller. Pod 1-2 in. long, firm, 5-6-seeded. 



3. C. mariana, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 234 ; a climber, petioles long, leaf- 

 lets 3, bracteoles small, flowers 2 peduncled, calyx glabrous, teeth much shorter 

 than the tube. 0. mexicana, Link. JEnum. Hart. Berol. ii. 235. C, acuminata, 

 Grali. in Wall. Cat. 5346. C. Grahami, Steud. ; Benth. PL Jungh. 232. 



KHASIA, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., Hook. fil. $ Thomson, Lobb. TAVOY, 

 Wallich. DISTRIB. Mexico, United States. 



Stems slender, terete, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, ^- in. ; petiole 1| 2 in. ; 

 leaflets membranous, glabrous, ovate, pale beneath, 2-4 in. long, acute or subobtuse. 

 Peduncles -2 in., with a pair of minute lanceolate bracts at the apex ; bracteoles Ian- 



