Clitoria.~] LEGUMINOSAE. 365 



Yar. Stocksii, Bentli. Leaflets broadly ovate, often cordate at 

 base, with more abundant brown silky hairs. 



Kadur Hills of Mysore, at 5,500 ft. (Talbot). 



2. VIGNA WIGHTII, Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 206; Bedd. Ic. t. 296. 



W. Ghats, in the Wynaad, Coimbatore and Pnlney Hills, 



in grass lands, at about 5,000 ft. "Wynaad Sweet Pea 



(Beddome)." 



Similar to the last, with pink flowers. 



3. YIGNA PILOSA, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 207. Dolichos pilosus, 

 Roxb. ; W. & A. 249. 



W. Ghats, in evergreen forests, S. Canara to Travancore, 

 at low levels. 



A slender climber with reddish flowers and very long- 

 poiiited velvety pods. 



4. YIGNA BOURNEAE, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, ined. 



W. Ghats, in the Puhiey Hills at low elevations (Bourne). 

 A stout climber with prominent oblong-lanceolate peltate 

 stipules, very thickly villous branches and leaves and long 

 peduncled very nodose racemes. Flowers larger than 

 those of V. pilosa apparently reddish-purple. 



Vigna Catjany, Walp. is a suberect annual plant cultivated for 

 its pods, which are eaten like French beans, and for its seeds 

 Yern. Hind. Lobia ; Tarn. Karamani. 



46. Clitoria, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves pinnate, 3-inany- 

 foliolate ; stipules persistent, striate ; stipels small, subulate. 

 Flowers showy, axillary, solitary fascicled or racemose ; bracts 

 persistent, stipule-like ; bracteoles usually large, persistent. 

 Calyx membranous, tubular, the 2 upper teeth subconnate. 

 Corolla much exserted ; standard large, erect, emarginate, 

 narrowed at base ; wings falcate-oblong, spreading, adnate in the 

 middle to the keel; keel shorter than the wings, incurved, acute. 

 Stamens usually diadelphous, the vexillary one sometimes con- 

 nate with the others ; anthers uniform Ovary stipitate, many- 

 ovuled ; style elongate, incurved, bearded along the inner side. 

 Pod linear-oblong, flattened or turgid, many-seeded. Seeds sub- 

 globose or compressed ; strophiole 0. 



CLITORIA TERNATEA, Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 208 ; W. & A. 205. 

 Cultivated in gardens everywhere, but also common self : 

 sown in hedges and thickets. 



