Atylosia.] LEGUMINOSAE. 369 



3. ATYLOSIA SERICEA, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 213. 



E. Ghats, in the Hills of Vizagapatam, at 4.000 ft. and 



higher (A. W. Lushington). 



An erect white silky shrub with red flowers. 



4. ATYLOSIA VOLUBILIS, Gamble n. comb. A. craxsa, Prain in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi, 45. A. mollis, Benth. ; F. B. I. 

 ii. 213 in. jxii't. Clitic it* rolnbilix, Blanco. 



E. Ghats, in the Hills of Gaiijam and Vizagapatam, up to 

 3.000 ft, 



A climbing shrub with densely rusty tomentose foliage and 

 yellow flowers. 



5. ATYLOSIA GOBNSIS, Dalz. A. burbata. Bak. in F. B. I. 

 ii. 216. 



W. Ghats, from S. Canara to Travancore, at low elevations 

 and up to 3,500 ft. 



A climbing grey-pubescent shrub with yellow flowers. 

 6. ATYLOSIA ALBICANS, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 215. Cantharo- 

 Hperiui>i (ijbicdiii*. W. & A. 25(5 in j>art. 



E. Ghats, Hills of Vi/a-npatam. at 1,500 ft.; Hills of 

 W. Deccan ; W. Ghfits from Mysore to Travancore, up to 

 5,000 ft., usually in somewhat dry localities. 

 A climbing shrub easily known by its bluish grey striate 

 stems and leaflets. Flowers yellow. 



7. ATYLOSIA BTJGOSA, W. & A. 257 ; F. B. I. ii. 215. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri, Anamalai and Pulney Hills, from 

 5,000 to 7,000 ft, ; Shevaroy Hills of Salem. 

 A climbing shrub with reticulate leaflets grey-canescent 

 beneath, and yellow flowers. 



8. ATYLOSIA SCARABAEOIDES, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 215. Can- 

 tharospermum pauciftorum, W. fc A. 255. 



N. Circars, from Gaiijam to Godavari ; Deccan, in Mysore 

 and Coimbatore ; W. Ghats, at low levels on the E. side, 

 from Nilgiris to Cape Comorin. 



A slender twining shrub with softly golden -villous pods 

 and yellow flowers. 



Cttjttnus indicus, Spreiig., is the ''Pigeon pea" an erect shrub 

 with corolla yellow or yellow veined with red, cultivated for its 

 seeds especially in forest regions. The leaves are used for cattle- 

 fodder. Yern. Hind. Arhar dal ; Tarn. Tuvarai ; Tel. Kandalu. 



