46S JOUR^iTAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



41. Arachis HYPOG.EA Linn.; Sp. PL 741 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 

 iii., 280] Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 161 ; Watt, Diet., i., 282. 

 The Qround-Nut. 



Minikoi ; cultivated, Fleming ! 



A native of America, cultivated largely in Southern India, more 

 rarely in other parts. 



42. Desmodium triflorum DC, Prodr., ii., 334; Hook, f., 

 Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 173. Hedysarum trijlorum Linn., Sp. PL 749 ; 

 Eoxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 353. 



Akati ; Fleming ! Kadamum ; Fleming ! Kiltan ; Fleming I 

 Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A cosmopolitan tropical weed. 



43. Clitoria Tbrnatea Linn., Sp. PL 753; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 

 iii., 321 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 208 ; Watt, Diet., ii., 375. 



Ameni ; cultivated, Hume. 



In gardens, or as an escape, throughout the tropics; not in 

 Australia. 



44. MucuNA CAPiTATA W. & A., Prodr., 255; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., ii., 187. Carpopogon capitatum Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 284. 



Ameni ; in gardens, " many plants * * * with bunches of 

 deep blackish purple flowers, looking like Hamburg grapes," Hume ! 



India and Java ; perhaps only a cultivated form of the common 

 Cowhage {Mucuna priiriens DO.) 



45. Canavalia turgida Grah. in Wall., Cat. n. 5534 A. ; Miq., 

 Flor. Ind. Bat., L, 215. C. ensiformis var. turgida Baker in Hook, 

 f. Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 196. Dolichos rotundifolius Roxb., Flor. Ind., 

 iii., 302. Rheede, Hort. Malabar., viii., t. 43. Probably=0. ohtusi- 

 folia DC, Prodr., ii., 404. 



Minikoi ; very common, a climber on the Pandanus sea-fence, 

 Fleming ! 



Littoral species ; coasts of Bengal, Burma, Andamans and Nico- 

 bars, Malay Peninsula and Java {Miguel). Also Coromandel Coast, 

 ^' on islands at mouth of Godaveri river, ^' (Boxhurgh); and Malabar 

 Coast, " locis arenosis" Cochin (Rheede) . 



Roxburgh's and Rheede's plant is, without doubt, from the 

 former writer's account and the latter's figure of the " semi- 

 elliptic" {Roxburgh), turgid pod, the same as Graham's Wallichian 



