Dotichos.~\ L egu m inpscB. 7 7 



seeds 5 or 6, small, narrowly oblong-oval, much compressed, 

 brown. 



Low country to 2000 ft.; in rocky places, rather common. Fl. Dec- 

 March; pale yellow. 



Probably general in Eastern Tropics. 



This is never cultivated in Ceylon. Whether it be rightly referred to 



D. uniflorus is doubtful ; I follow Thwaites. It is certainly D. axillaris, 



E. Mey., of Mauritius and Trop. Africa. 



D. biflorus, L., is an annual cultivated form of D. uniflorus, or an 

 allied species, erect and very hairy. It is largely grown in S. India, and 

 the seed is well known in Ceylon as ' Kollu ' or ' Madras Gram.' It is 

 also cultivated here in a few places in the dry region, but to a very slight 

 extent. Moon gives it as ' cult.' (Cat. 53) under the name of Glycine 

 -villosa. There seems to be no published figure of this well-known pulse. 



3. D. ciliatus, Klein in Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1049 (1800). 

 Thw. Enum. 90. C. P. 1469. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 210. 



A perennial twining herb with a tuberous root, stems 

 slender, glabrous or nearly so, buds silky; l.-rachis i~\\ in., 

 tumid at base, hairy, stip. ovate, striate, rigid, persistent, lflts. 

 1-2A in., oblong-oval, rounded at base, obtuse, apiculate ; 

 glabrous on both sides when mature, densely ciliate with 

 white hairs on margin, veins conspicuous beneath ; fl. on very 

 short ped., 3-6 together in extremely short cymose racemes, 

 bracts oval, striate; cal. pubescent, lower segm. lanceolate, 

 setaceous; pod about i\ in. by § in. wide, much compressed, 

 slightly curved, ventral margin much curved, suddenly 

 narrowed to curved slender beak, glabrous, slightly veiny; 

 seeds 2-4, \ in., oval, compressed, dark brown. 



Dry region; rare. Elephant Pass (Gardner); Jaffna. Fl. Jan.; pale 

 yellow. 



Also in Southern India. 



D. falcatus, Klein in Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1047 (1800). Wal- 

 dambala, S. 



Thw. Enum. 90. C. P. 1472. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 211. 



A small twining perennial, roots tuberous, stems veryslender, 

 slightly hairy; 1. numerous, rachis 1-2 in., slender; stip. 

 narrowly triangular, acute, lflts. very variable in size, rhomboid- 

 ovate, acute, usually more or less 3-lobed with the lat. lobes 

 obtuse, glabrous on both sides ; fl. \ in., ped. as long as cal., 

 1-3 on slender axillary peduncles shorter than I.; cal. nearly 

 glabrous, lower segm. short-triangular, acute; pod 2-2^ in. by 

 I in. wide, distinctly curved, with a very short point, glabrous; 

 seeds 5 or 6, ! in., oval-reniform, compressed, dark brown. 



