Dolichos.'] Legimmiosa:. 75 



C. ternatea, L. Sp. PI. 753 (1753). Nil-katarodu, Kata- 

 rodu-wel, S. XLaruttappu, T. 



Herm. Mus. 10. Burm. Thes. ioo, 101. Fl. Zeyl. n. 283. Moon Cat. 

 53. Thw. Enum. 88. C. P. 1485. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 208. Bot. Mag. t. 1542. 



A perennial twining herb, stems long, cylindrical, with 

 scanty adpressed hair; 1. numerous, rachis i|-2 in. stip. very 

 small, linear, lflts. 5 or 7 (2 or 3 pair and end one), f-ij in., 

 oval or oblong-oval, shortly stalked, obtuse often emarginate, 

 glabrous above, slightly hairy beneath; fl. large, over 1 in. 

 long, on a drooping, short, jointed axillary ped., with 2 large 

 erect rotundate bracts immediately beneath it; cal. f in., thin, 

 nearly glabrous, segm. long-triangular, acuminate; standard 

 very large, somewhat reflexed, bifid; pod 4-5 in. by f in. 

 wide, nearly straight, sharply beaked, with a few adpressed 

 hairs; seeds 8-12, \ in., oblong-ovoid, greenish mottled with 

 brown. 



Dry region, common, and perfectly wild ; in moist region usually the 

 result of cultivation. Fl. Dec, Jan.; intensely bright blue. 



Throughout the Tropics, but often cultivated. 



A lovely climber; the flowers are often much larger in cultivation, and 

 are sometimes white. A double-flowered variety also is cultivated. 



Centroscema Plumieri, Benth., is quite naturalised in the moist low 

 country in many places, as about Colombo. It is a native of Tropical 

 America. 



Periandra Berteriana, Benth., is another weed not unfrequent about 

 Kandy; a native of the W. Indies. 



36. DOLICHOS, L. 



Perennial twining herbs, 1. 3-foliolate with stipels, fl. solitary 

 ■or racemose; cal. campanulate, upper segm. connate, lower 

 longer, nearly equal; pet. nearly equal, keel not curved into a 

 ring, beaked or not ; stam. diadelphous; style either bearded 

 along inner side or with a tuft of hair round terminal stigma; 

 pod more or less curved, usually much flattened, few-seeded. — 

 Sp. 20; 6 in FL B. Ind. 



Style flattened, strongly bearded along inner edge . 1. D. Larlab. 

 Sty!': filiform, not bearded on inner edge. 

 Fl. yellow. 



L. not ciliate 2. D. uniflorus. 



L. strongly ciliate 3-D. CILIATUS. 



FL crimson 4. D. falcatus. 



