Atylosia.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 367 



2. DOLICHOS CILIATUS, Klein ; F. B. I. ii. 210; W. & A. 249. 

 Carnatic, chiefly near the coast, common about Madras. 

 A slender twiner with cilia te leaflets. 



Dolichos Lablab, Linn, is cultivated in gardens and on sheds 

 for its pods, which are eaten like French beans. There are two 

 varieties, distinguished by their pods, var. typicus, Prain, with 

 rather long narrow pods and seeds with the long axis parallel to 

 the sutures, and var. lignosus, Pram, with shorter broader pods 

 and seeds with the long axis at right angles to sutures. The 

 latter seems the most common in Madras. Yern. Hind. Sem ; 

 Tom. Avarai; Tel. Alsunda. 



Dolichos biftorus, Linn., is the " Horse Gram," largely culti- 

 vated, especially in the Circars and Deccan, on poor soils, for its 

 seeds and as a fodder crop for horses and cattle. Vern. Hind. 

 Kulti; Tarn. Kollu; Tel. Wulawala ; Kan. Hurali. 



48. Atylosia, W. & A. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves pinnately or rarely 

 digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets with resinous glands beneath; 

 stipules lanceolate or setaceous ; stipels small or 0. Flowers 

 usually yellow, axillary, in pairs or racemes ; bracts usually 

 broad, membranous, deciduous; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube cam- 

 pa 1111 late, the lobes distinct, the lowest the longest, the two upper 

 connate in an entire or bifid lip. Corolla more or less exserted, 

 sometimes marcescent ; standard orbicular, auricled at base ; 

 wings obliquely obovate or oblong ; keel slightly curved, obtuse. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, ovules 

 3 or more; style filiform, incurved, glabious; stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear or oblong, septate within, the valves more or less 

 transversely or obliquely depressed between the seeds. Seeds 

 ovate or orbicular with a conspicuous strophiole. 



Erect shrubs ; flowers in pairs ; pod not prominently depressed 

 between the seeds : 



Flowers large, peduncled ; leaflets thick, obovate or oblanceolate, 

 up to 3 in. long, densely brown-silky-pubescent beneath; pod 

 oblong, brown-silky, 1-1-5 in. long by '5 in. broad, 3-4-seeded 



]. trinervia. 

 Flowers small, under '5 in. long, not peduncled : 



Leaflets thin, obovate or oblanceolate, up to 1*5 in. long, grey- 



