366 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Clitoria* 



A very pretty climber with large bright blue prominently 

 bracteolate flowers, the standard having an orange centre. 

 Yern Hind. Khagin; Tel. Nalla-ghentana ; Tarn. Karka 

 kartun. 



47. Dolichos, Linn. 



Twining prostrate or suberect herbs. Leaves piiinately 

 3-foliolate ; stipules basifixed, subpersistent ; stipels subulate. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes or fascicles or solitary ; bracts and 

 bracteoles minute, striate, subpersistent. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late, the teeth short or long, the 2 upper connate. Corolla 

 exserted ; standard orbicular, auricled at base and with project- 

 ing appendages above the claw ; wings oblong or obovate, slightly 

 adnate to the keel ; keel much incurved, usually with a straight 

 beak. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style thickened upwards and bearded down the 

 inner face or filiform and bearded round the terminal stigma. 

 Pod flat, linear or oblong, recurved, usually tipped with the per- 

 sistent style. Seeds thick or somewhat flattened, hilum short 

 with slender funicle or elongate with thickened subpersistent 

 funicle. 



Style thickened upwards, bearded down the inner edge ; large climb- 

 ing herbs with elongate racemes on tumid nodes Lablab. 



Style filiform, bearded only round the stigma ; nodes not tumid : 

 Twining herbs with tuberous roots, perennial : 



Flowers about 2-8, lilac or pink, on slender peduncles varying up 

 to 2 in. long ; calyx-teeth short ; leaflets broadly deltoid-ovate, 

 the end one often 3-lobed ; pod linear, glabrous, 2-3 in. long, 



'35 in. broad, 6-8-seeded 1. falcatus. 



Flowers about 3-6, yellow, in short cymes under *5 in. long, the 

 petals striate; calyx-teeth long; leaflets elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 

 prominently ciliate on the margins ; pod linear-oblong, glabrous, 



1-1*5 in. long, '4-'5 in. broad, 3-4-seeded 2. ciliatus. 



Erect or somewhat twining herbs, the roots not tuberous, annual ; 

 flowers 1-3 together in leaf -axils, yellow, softly hairy, wings 

 narrow ; calyx-teeth setaceous ; leaflets ovate, acute ; pod linear, 

 1-5-2 in. long, '25 in. broad, 5-6-seeded biflorus. 



1. DOLICHOS FALCATTJS, Klein ; F. B. I. ii. 211 ; W. & A. 249. 

 All Districts, and up to 6,000 ft. in the hills. 

 A slender twiner with pretty lilac or pink flowers. 



