80 LegumiflOSCe. [Dunbaria. 



segm. linear-acuminate ; pet. little exserted ; pod f-f in., by 

 |- in. wide, apiculate, covered with long soft brownish hair, 

 4-5 -seeded, very strongly lineate between the seeds. 



Low country in both dry and moist regions ; rather common. Fl. 

 December ; yellow. 



Throughout India, Malaya, China, and Mascarene Is. 



Hermann gives the Sinhalese names 'Wcel-undu' and 'Wcel-undu- 

 wel ' for this. 



Cajanus indicus, Spreng. is commonly cultivated in gardens. It is 

 1 Rata-tora,' S., ' Thavarai,' T., and ' Chick-Pea ' of the English ; and is 

 n. 279 of Fl. Zeyl., figured in Burm. Thes. t. 37. It has the C. P. 

 number 720, but is nowhere wild in Ceylon. 



38. BUNBARIA,* W. and A. 



Woody twiners, 1. pinnately 3-foliolate, lflts. with stipels, 

 conspicuously gland-dotted, fl. in axillary panicles ; cal. with 

 lowest segm. much longest ; pet. persistent ; stam. diadelphous ; 

 style beardless, stigma capitate ; pod linear, more or less 

 compressed, few-seeded, marked with lines between seeds ; 

 seed with a ring-like small aril. — Sp. 10; 7 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Lflts. silky beneath, stip. caducous . . . . 1. D. FERRUGINEA. 

 Lflts. nearly glabrous beneath ; stip. persistent . 2. D. Heynei. 



1. B. ferrug"inea, W. mid A. Prod. 258 (1834). 



C. P. 3961. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 217. 



A woody twiner, with stout, cylindrical, hairy branches ; 

 1. rather large, rachis 1J-2 in., hairy, stip. small, lflts. 2-3 in., 

 ovate-lanceolate, very acute, glabrous above when mature, finely 

 hairy beneath, the lat. ones dilated in lower half; fl. \ in., ped. 

 slender, \ in., hairy, numerous, in erect axillary panicles longer 

 than 1., bracts large, ovate, caducous ; cal. covered with 

 ferrugineous hair, lowest segm. as long as tube ; pod over 

 1 \ in. by f wide, straight, with- a short deflexed beak, covered 

 with long, silky, yellowish hair; seeds 4, nearly circular, 

 compressed, black. 



Dry region ; apparently very rare. Dambulla, 1868 (Thwaites) ; 

 near Bibile, Uva. Fl. Jan., Feb. 

 Also in S. India. 



2. D. Heynei, W. and A. Prod. 258 (1834). 



D. oblonga, Arn. Pug. 15. Thw. Enum. 90. C. P. 1478. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 218. 



* Dedicated to Prof. George Dunbar, of Edinburgh. 



