376 LEGUMINOSE. [ Cajanus. 
petiolule 2-3 lin. long, acuminate, 4-7 in. long, above more or less 
roug’ m minute st reas =n beneath (especially on the . 
nerves) thinly and minutely appressedly tawny pubescent; flowers 
small, greenish and dirty ines iaietilcad, with purple wings, very 
shortly pedicelled, forming a solitary or few dense, spike-like, 
sessile, silky pubescent racemes in the axils of the leaves, while 
young densely imbricated and strobiliform from the linear-lanceo- 
late or lanceolate acuminate long but deciduous bracts, the basal 
outer bracts broader, thinly silk-hairy, up to 14 im. long; calyx 
] 
about 4 lin. long, dense y silvery silk-hairy ; lobes linear, ateuniealias 
the lowermost nearly doubly longer ; corolla glabrous, nearly 3 i. 
long ; s oblong, 4 in. long , minutely appressedly puberulous, 
— 
—Not unfrequent in the oe forests, especially the low and Eng forests, 
of 8 also Chittagong and Ava.—Fl. C.S.—1.—SS.=Dil. 
13. F. capitata, Zoll. (F. ietobeetetis Bth.; H.f. Ind. Fl. iu. 
229).—An erect meagre shrub, 3 to 5 ft. ‘high, the branches terete 
or nearly so, more or less pubescent ; ; stipules linear-oblong, acute, 
deciduous ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate, on a pubescent 4-2 in. long 
petiole ; leaflets. more or less lanceolate. to linear, the ‘lateral ones 
unequally so, acuminate or acute, 14-24 in. long, shortly and softly 
uberulous on both sides, more so on the pale-coloured under-surface ; 
flowers small, collected in dense pilose peduncled or almost sessile 
heads in the axils of the leaves and ees all bracts persistent, 
silky pilose, the outer ones up to 2 n. long, ovate, long silky- 
ciliate ; elo silky pilose, about 6 iin. long, the lobes subulate ; 
corolla as long, minutely sco sericeous ; pods enclosed in the 
calyx, silky pilose, obovoid, about 2 lin. bag usually 1-seeded, the 
compressed, elliptical. 
Has.—Frequent in the open, especially in the low forests, ascending into 
the aan hill forests, all over Pegu and Martaban aown to Upper Tenasserim.— 
Fl. Fr. C.S.: SS. = Dil.— Metam. Arg. 
aoe Sa 
CAJANUS, DC. 
Calyx-lobes acuminate or acute, the 2 upper ones more 0 
connate. Standard orbicular, reflexed, furnished with ‘adleed 
auricles ; wings obliquely obovate ; keel incurved at the blunt apex. 
Stamens anited i in a sheath, the vexillar one free ; anthers uniform. 
ost. sessile, with many o ; style e beardless, thickened 
: = above the middle and slightly disted. sae the obliquely terminal 
: Pod oblong to li within 
