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80. CAJANUS, DO. 



An erect shrub. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers racemed. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate ; teeth short. Corolla much exserted, its petals equal in length ; 

 keel truncate. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, few- 

 ovuled ; style long, filiform, much upcurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear, 

 straight, narrowed at both ends, 3-5-seeded, torulose with oblique linear 

 depressions between the non-strophiolate seeds. DISTRIB. The only species. 



1. C. indicus, Spreng. Syst. iii. 248 ; W. # A. Prodr. 25G. 0. bicolor, 

 Wall Cat. 5577. 0. flavus and bicolor, DC. Prodr. ii. 406. Oytisus Oajan, 

 Linn.', Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 325. 0. pseudo-cajan, Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 119. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 13. 



Wild? and cultivated throughout our limits, ascending to 6000 ft. in the 

 Himalayas. DISTRIB. Everywhere in the tropics, probably native of the Old 

 World. 



An erect shrub, with slender sulcate grey-silky branchlets. Stipules minute, 

 lanceolate ; leaflets 3, minutely stipellate, oblong-lanceolate, entire, subcoriaceous, 

 thinly silky above, densely beneath, indistinctly gland-dotted. Flowers in sparse dis- 

 tinctly-peduncled corymbose raceme?, often forming a terminal panicle ; pedicels 

 downy, 2-3 times the calyx. Calyx in. Corolla 3 times the calyx : standard yellow, 

 (C. flavus) or beautifully veined with red (C. bicolor). Pod 2-3 in. by - in., finely 

 downy, tipped with the lower half of the style. 



81. DUNBARIA, W. & A. 



Woody or herbaceous climbers. Leaves 3-foliolate, distinctly gland- 

 dotted beneath ; stipellaj n'rely present. Flowers racemose or axillary. Calyx- 

 teeth long and narrow, tU lowest distinctly exceeding the others. Corolla 

 more or less exserted, marcescent or caducous ; keel usually not beaked. 

 Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, niany- 

 ovuled ; style inflexed, filiform beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flat, not 

 marked with depressed lines between the substrophiolate seeds. DISTRIB. 

 Three more species, reaching North Australia and Japan. 



SITBGEF. 1. Eudunbaria, Benth. Corolla large, marcescent, lasting till 

 the pod reaches full size. 



1. D. ferruginea, W. fy A. Prodr. 258; stems closely pubescent, 

 stipules minute caducous, leaflets thick as broad as long densely pubescent 

 beneath, standard exceeding the wings and keel, pod puberulent. Oollaea 

 venosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5573. 0. gibba, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5572, B. C. 

 Dunbaria latifolia, W. $ A. Prodr. 258. 



Hills of WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 



A woody twiner, with slender stems and densely downy branchlets and petioles. 

 Leaflets roundish-deltoid, entire, coriaceous, 2-3 in. long, glabrescent or thinly downy 

 above, clothed with soft grey or ferruginous pubescence beneath ; stipellae sometimes 

 present. Racemes lax, many-flowered, distinctly peduncled ; pedicels downy, gemi- 

 nate, -f in. ; bracts large, boat-shaped, soon falling. Calyx -f in., densely downy ; 

 lower tooth linear, as long as the tube, the others lanceolate. Corolla 1-1|- in. long, 

 the standard l.in. broad, exceeding the wings and keel. \-^ in. Pod sessile, straight, 

 l-2 in. by f-| in., 4-5-seeded, tipped with the hooked base of the style. 



2. P. Keynei, W. fy A. Prodr. 258; stems thinly clothed with fine 

 spreading hairs, stipules membranous persistent, leaflets thin twice as long as 



