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Commonly cultivated. There are varieties with red and white flowers. 
The half grown pods are eaten like French-beans. 
412, C. Virnosa. w. & 4.778. Rheed, Mal. 8. ¢, 45. Dolichos virosus. Rox. 
Flora. 3. p. 301. 
Biennial, twining; flowers large, of a beautiful colour, between rose and 
purple —common in hedges and jungles; in flower a great part of the year. 
It is reckoned a poisonous plant. 
“413. C Ostustro.ia. w. & A. 780. Rheed. Mal. 8. ¢. 48. Pluk. t. 51. f. 2, 
Dolichos rotundifolius, Rox. Flora. 3. p. 302.—the Concans. 
210. MUCUNA. w. & A. Diadelphia_Decandria. 
The Brazil name of one of the species. 
414. M. Monosperma.w. & a 781. Wight’s Icones, Part 2. t. 35. Carpo 
pogon monospermum. Rox. Flora, 3. p. 283. 
A large perennial twining plant; produces the Brahminee vegetable called 
Negro Bean. (Dr. Lush.) 
415. M-Arropurpurega. w. & A. 782, Carpopogon atropurpureum. Rox 
Flora. 3. p> 287. 
Legume curiously plaited; armed with stinging hairs.—S, Concan. N. 
416, M. Gieanrea. w. & A. 783. Rheed, Mal. 8, ¢. 36. Carpopogon gigan- 
~.. teum. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 286. Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 6. 
- A large perennial twining plant with sulphur coloured flowers, in pendu- 
<;* lous umbels;--the Concans. N. 
—~— 417. M. Prorita. w. & a. 785. Rheed. Mal. 8. ¢, 35. Rumph. Amb. 5- 
\. t. 142. Carpopogon pruriens. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 283. Ainslie Mat. Ind. 1. p. 93. 
Cowitch.—anonual, twining, wiih pendulous racemes of dark coloured 
flowers, which appear in the rains. Pod shape of the letter 5, clothed with 
stinging hairs: One of the commonest plants in hedges atid jungly tracts 
during the rains. 
418. M. Gipsonn. G.--Scandent; flowers deep blue, in racemes going off at 
right angles to the stem.—On the road between Trimbuck and Wadewara. 
(Dr. Gibson.) 
211. PACHYRRHIZUS. Rich. Diadelphia Decandria. 
Pachys-—thick, and rhize, a root: in allusion tothe thick tuberous roots 
ef the plants. 
419. P. AncuLatus, w. & A. 774. Dolichos bulbosus, Rox, Flora. 3. p. 
309. Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 132. Pluk Alm. ¢. 52. f. 4. 
A twining plant; flowers of a beautiful blue violet colour; m long axillary 
racemes. 
212. CAJANUS. pe. Diadelphia Decandria. 
Amboina name, Catjang.— Lam. ¢. 615. 
— 420. C. Inpicus. w. &. A.789. Cytisus cajan. Rox. Flora. 3. p.325. Rheed. 
Mal. 6. ¢. 18, 
The Pigeon Pea, Toor, Dhal.—a shrub; leaves trifoliate, flowers yellow — 
commonly cultivated; the seeds are generally sown in rows among different 
kinds of grain. In the West Indies it is used as a fence for Sugar planta- 
tions. face 
213, ATYLOSIA. w. & a. Decandria Monogynia. 
421. A. Law. Wight’s Icones. No. 5. ¢. 93. 
Ran-toor—a shrubby plant with trifoliate leaves, and small yellow flowers, 
—common at Mahableshwar, and along the line of Ghauts. 
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