‘PULSE FAMILY. 105, 
more healthful and agreeable, if not a more profitable, employment. 
The indigo-plant is said to be an nual, when subject to a 
as on the delta of the Ganges; but it is sometimes fruticose—yielding 
one or aed ratoon — (in e. successive e growths of titers * spent), 
after having been cut off. Another species—I. Antu, L.—is said to 
be also eultrrated at the South. It differs from the above chiefly { in its 
flattened, even (not torulose) pods. 
8. CI’CER, Tournef. aie ehese 
[The Latin name for a species of Vetch ; applied ] 
Calyx agile: gibbous at base, 5-parted; segments acuminate — 
the upper incumbent on the vexillum. ‘Legume t turgid, 2 
Seeds noise as 
1. C. arrer me s odd-pinnate; leaflets cuneate-obovate, 
serrate ; atipales saictane "sabdentoulte “calyx slightly gibbous,— 
the segments as long as the wings of the c 
Ram Cicer. Coffee-pea. Chickpea. Ne eS, 
Fr. Le Pois Chiche. Germ. Gemeine ae, grits Garbanzo. 
Whole plant canescent and glandular-pilose, the hairs secreting oxalic acid. Root 
annual. Stem 9-18 inches Fi ino sae hing. cag ee x about half an inch long, in 4-6 
pairs (often alternate) with 1 odd one instead of a tendril. 
solitary, white. Seed oiniias = poten in form reeetibling the head o! 
Gardens : 
August ~ 
sometimes cultivated ‘8 the seeds—which are said to 
6 1st food 
Obs. This is 
be a tolerable substitute for coffee. are much used, as 
undant (as I recollect to have 
ors 
seen it) in the Bazaars at t Calcutta, aoe the name of “Gram.” This — 
vetch is the “ sed Pea ” which is announced asa novelty, or a 
great 
curiosity (disco ered among the Arabs) in Lyxcn’s Expedition to the 
gh- 
Dead Sea ikongh it has been costars known in the gardens, throu; 
specifi re 
: cultivated. Native of Europe and the East. FI. July-September. Fr. 
Octo 
out the civiliz world, ever since the days of Tou mnefort—if not of nf 
t Exploring = 
ay’ 
Homer! So much for the pe ais e policy of se sending 04 lori 
itions unaccompanied by competent Naturalist 
9. ARA’CHIS, L. pubs se : 
ss ancient name of asco m 
Diaciousl ced together — 
in the ta | erage umerous in the upper axils, with a — 
upper lip 44 hems : 
