Clitoria.] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 209 



ceolate, - in. Calyx f-f in. Standard pale blue, 2 in. by 1^ in. Pod more turgid 

 than in the two preceding. 



4. C. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 5345 ; a climber, petioles long, leaflets 

 3, bracteoles small, flowers 3-6 fascicled in the axils of the leaves, calyx downy, 

 teeth as long as the tube. ' Benth. PL Jungh. 232. 



MARTABAN, Parish. TENASSERIM, Heifer. BIRMA, Wallich. 



Similar to the last in general habit, bracteoles and corolla. Petiole 2-3 in. ; leaf- 

 lets subcoriaceous, glabrous, oblong or obovate-oblong, 3-5 in. long, grey beneath. 

 Calyx \ in. long, veined like the stipules bracts and bracteoles ; teeth lanceolate, acu- 

 mii: ite. Pod 2 in. long, flattish, 6-8-seeded. 



-. T lurocarpum. Pod turgid, with a rib along the face of 



5. C. cajan^efolia, Benih. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. 121. Neurocarpum 

 caj;i:i;e folium, Pr--sl, Symb. 17, t. 9. N. retusum, Hassk. PL Jav. Rar. 376 V 



MALACCA and SIXCAPOKK. G. Thomson, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Trop. 

 America. 



A suberect undershrub, with terete pilose branches. Leaflets 3, obovate or oblan- 

 ceolate, subcoriaceous, 2-5 in. long, obtuse, grey-canescent beneath ; petiole scarcely 

 any. Flowers usually 2, distinctly peduncled ; bracteoles small, ovate or lanceolate. 

 Calyx | in. ; teeth much shorter than the tube. Corolla .pale violet, twice the calyx 

 or more ; standard 1- in. broad. 



77. DOZ.ICHOS, Linn. 



Twining herbs, with stipellate 3-foliolate leaves and minute subpersistent 

 bracts bracteoles and stipules. Flowers racemose or axillary. Calyx-tube 

 campanulate -, teeth long or short. Corolla much exserted ; its petals usually 

 equal in length ; keel obtuse or rostrate, not spiral. Stamens diadelphous ; an- 

 thers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform or thickened 

 upwards, bearded down the inner face or round the terminal stigma. Poc?flat, 

 linear or oblong, recurved. DISTKIB. Species about 20, wide-spread in tropics 

 of both hemispheres. 



SITBGEN". 1. Lab lab, Savi. Style thickened upwards, narrowed to the 

 base, bearded down the inner edge. 



1. !>. Ii alb lab, Linn.; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 305; pod recur ved-oblong 

 2-4-seeded, flowers middle-sized, pedicels short, keel narrow rostrate. Bot. 

 Mac/, t. 896. Labial) vulgaris, Saoi-, DC. Prodr. ii. 401 ; Wall. Cat. 5536; W.< 

 fy A. Prodr. 250. Dolichos lignosus, Linn. ; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 307 ; Bot. May. 

 t. 380. Lablab lignosus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5537. L. cultratus, DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 402 ; W. fy A. Prodr. 251. L. microcarpus, perennans, leucocarpus and 

 nankinensis, DC. loc. cit. D. benghalensis, Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 124. D. 

 purpureus, Linn. ; Bot. Reg. t. 830. D. festivus, Wall. Cat. 5551. D. cuspi- 

 datus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5566. D. Curtisii, G. Don Gard. Diet. ii. 357. 



"Wild and universally cultivated throughout India, ascending in the Himalayas 

 to 6-7000 ft. DISTRIB, Tropics of the Old World. 



Subglabrous, wide-twining, perennial, or under cultivation annual. Stipules lanceo- 

 late, basifixed ; leaflets as broad as long, always entire, acute, 2-6 in. long, broad 

 ovate, membranous, rarely downy beneath. Racemes and peduncles each reaching 

 -f ft. long ; pedicels densely fascicled, or finally in. ; bracteoles oblong, some- 

 times as long as the calyx. Calyx - in. ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla red- 

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