360 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Canavalia. 



W. Ghats, Hills of Mysore, Coimbatore, Nilgiris and 



Pulneys, at 4,000 to 5,000 ft. 



Brandies, leaves and calyx more or less densely hairy. 



3. CAN AV ALIA LINEATA, DC. C. obtiisi/oUa, Bak. in F. B. I. 

 ii. 196. 



Coast sands of the Coromandel and lower Malabar coast. 

 A trailing plant, valuable as a sandbinder (cf. Clegh. 

 Madr. Journ. i. t. 4) and rooting at the nodes, often in com- 

 pany with Ipomaea biloba, Forsk. Flowers pink or lilac, 

 leaflets rather small and orbicular. 



4. CANAVALIA OBTUSIFOLIA, DC. C. cnsiformis var. turgida.. 

 Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 196. 



Banks of canals and backwaters near Quiloii in Travancore 



(K. Venkoba Rao). 



A climber, probably biennial, with pink flowers. 



43. Pueraria, DC. 



Climbing shrubs or herbs, sometimes with tuberous roots. 

 Leaves pinna tely 3-foliolate, the leaflets broadly ovate or 

 rhomboid, sometimes palmately lobed ; stipules herbaceous, 

 basifixed or peltate ; stipels subulate. Flowers purplish or blue, 

 in long often compound axillary racemes, fascicled on the nodose 

 rhachis ; bracts small, deciduous ; bracteoles small. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, teeth 5, the two upper connate in an entire or 2-lobed 

 lip. Corolla exsert ; standard obovate or orbicular with auricles 

 above the claw; wings oblong or falcate, equalling the obtuse 

 keel. Stamens nionadelphous, the axillary one free at the base, 

 sometimes quite free ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, niany- 

 ovuled ; style filiform, curved, beardless ; stigma capitate. Pod 

 linear, more or less flattened, continuous or septate within, 

 sometimes jointed. Seeds suborbicular or transversely oblong; 

 hilum oblong ; strophiole small or 0. 



PUERARIA TUBEROSA, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 197 ; W. & A. 205, 449 ; 



Wt. Ic. t. 412. 



Hill forests of the N. Circa rs, Deccan and W. G-hats, up to 

 about 3,000 ft,, down to Travancore, nowhere very common. 

 A large climber with huge tuberous roots, blue flowers which 

 appear in the hot season when the plant is leafless, large 

 leaflets with cordate peltate stipules and jointed pods up to 

 3 in. long, covered with long reddish bristly hairs. The 



