208 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) \_PachyrMzus. 



Cultiyated th*ougliout our limits, but not known in a wild state. — Disteib. 

 Everywhere in the tropics. 



Soot a large tuber, like a turnip, which is eaten both raw and boiled. Stems wide- 

 twining, sufiruticose, clothed with short deciduous pubescence. Leaflets large, mem- 

 branous, glabrous, as broad as long, deeply or shaUowly lobed in the upper half, the 

 base deltoid. Bacemes lax, ^1 ft., the lower nodes often prolonged into short 

 branches ; bracteoles setaceous. Calyx \ in., as long as the pedicel. Corolla reddish, 

 1 in. or more long. Fod 6-9 in. long, 8-1 2-seed6d, straight, glabrescent. 



76. CX.XTOB.XA, LiBn. 



Scandent or suberect undershrubs, with the most showy flowers of all the 

 Phaseoleee, S-7-foliolate leaves, stipellate leaflets and persistent membranous small 

 stipules and bracts and large bracteoles. Calyx membranous, tubular ; teeth 

 deltoid or lanceolate. Con'olla much exserted ; standard spOon-shaped, very 

 large ; wings and incurved keel much shorter. Stamens monadelphous or 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, 

 flattened, bearded along the inner side. Pod linear, flattish or turgid. — Disteib. 

 Species 27, in tropics of old and new world, mostly the latter. 



SuBOEiir. 1. Tematea. Pod flattish, the valves not keeled on tbe face. 



1. C. Ternatea, Linn. ; DC. I^odr. ii. 233 ; stems terete scandent, pe- 

 tioles short, leaflets 5-7, flowers solitary, bracteoles large. Wall. Cat. 5344 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1542 ; Moxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 321 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 205 ; Dak. ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 68. 



Tropical zone from the Himalatas to Cetion, Bibma, and Maiacca. — ^Disteib. Cos- 

 mopolitan in the tropics, common in cultivation. 



A climber, Tvith slender downy stems. Stipules minute, linear ; petiole ^-1 in. ; leaf- 

 lets ovate or oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, 1-2 in. long. Bracteoles roundish, obtuse, 

 ^-^ in. long. Calyx J-| in. ; teeth lanceolate, half as long as the tube. Corolla 

 1^2 in. ; standard 1 in. broad, bright blue, with an orange centre. Pod 2-4 in. long, 

 6-10-seeded. 



Vak. 1. pUosula, Wall. Cat. 5347 (sp.) ; leaflets and flowers much smaller, the 

 former ^-J in. long, standard white an inch long. — Gruzerat, Stocks. 



2. C biflora, Dalz. in Kew Journ. ii. 35 ; stems suberect angular, petioles 

 very short, leaflets 5, flowers geminate, bracteoles large. Dalz. 4" Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 68. 



In the CoTTCAN, common ; Balzell, Stocks, Law. 



Scarcely shrubby, the young branches densely pubescent. Stipules minute, lan- 

 ceolate ; petiole \-4i in. ; leaflets membranous, 2-3 in. long, ovate or oblong, usually 

 acute. Flowers copious, scarcely peduncled ; bracteoles ^-^ in., ovate or lanceolate 

 aristate. Calyx J^| in. ; teeth shorter than the tube, lanceolate, aristate. Corolla 

 like that of the last, but much smaller. Pod 1-2 in. long, firm, 5-6-seeded. 



3. C. marlana, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 234 ; a climber, petioles long, leaf- 

 lets 3, bracteoles small, flowers 2 peduncled, calyx glabrous, teeth much shorter 

 than the tube. 0. mexicana. Link. Enum. Sort. Berol. ii. 235. 0. acuminata, 

 Orah. in Wall. Cat. 6846. 0. Grahami, Steud. ; Benth. PI. Jungh. 232. 



Khasia, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft.. Hook. fl. S[ Thomson, Lohb. Tavot, 

 WalUch. DisTEtB. Mexico, United States. 



Stems slender, terete, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, |— ^ in. ; petiole li-2 in. ; 

 leaflets membranous, glabrous, ovate, pale beneath, 2-4 in. long, acute or subobtuse. 

 Peduncles J-2 in., with a pair of minute lanceolate bracts at the apex ; bracteoles Ian-- 



