LEGUMES AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS 311 



India. It is often cultivated in rotation between crops of 

 rice. The adzuki bean is an erect, bushy legume I to 3 feet 

 high. The yield averages 30 to 40 bushels of beans per acre. 



Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) of the East Indies is an 

 erect, single-stemmed or branching annual legume. It is 

 used in India chiefly as a green feed for cattle, but the dry 

 beans are also used in fattening cattle and the green beans 

 as human food, especially in curries. Guar is extremely 

 resistant to drought. It grows 3 to 6 feet high. This plant 

 is cultivated to some extent in Oklahoma, Texas, California, 

 and other Southern States. 



Bonavist bean, also called lablab bean (Dolichos lablab), 

 of India, is a vigorous, perennial, woody, climbing legume, 

 with white, purple, or red flowers, flat pods, and white or 

 black beans with a conspicuous hilum. The pods, together 

 with the beans, are consumed as human food by the Orientals, 

 especially during the young and tender stages. Lablab bean 

 gives some promise as a hay and forage crop in Texas, Florida, 

 and Cuba. 



Kulthi (D. biflorus) of India is an annual running vine 

 cultivated in India chiefly as human food and also for cattle. 

 The dried beans are used as human food, while the hay is 

 fed to cattle. As a forage crop this plant has given good 

 results in Texas. In Hawaii the yield averages about 1,400 

 pounds of seed per acre. 



Moth bean (Phaseolus aconitifolius) of India is an annual, 

 densely branching legume about 18 inches tall, with a spread 

 of 2 or 3 feet. The moth bean is grown in India for the 

 dried beans which are used as human food. In the Pan- 

 handle district of Texas, this bean yields 2 tons of hay per 

 acre, which, in most respects, has proved to be superior to 

 cowpea hay. 



The winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) of Malaya 

 is a vigorous, perennial climber with showy blue flowers and 

 curious square pods 4 to 9 inches long. The green pods and 



