GUtoria.] L. LBGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Bakerl) 209 



ceolate, ^J in. Calyii: |-J in. Standard pale blue, 2 in. by 1 J in. Pod more turgid 

 than in the two preceding. 



4 C. macropbylla, Wall. Oca. 5345 ; a olimlDer, petioles long, leaflets 

 3, braoteoles small, flowers 3-6 fascicled in the axils of tlie leaves, calyx downy, 

 teetli as long as the tube. Benth. PI. Jwngh. 232. 



Maktaban, PamA. Tenassbbim, Se^/er Bikma, JTaMicA. 



Similar to the last in general habit, bracteoles and corolla. Petiole 2-3 in. ; leaf- 

 lets subcoriaceous, glabrous, oblong or obovate-oblong, 3-5 in. long, grey beneath. 

 Cdyx I in. long, veined like the stipules bracts and bracteoles ; teeth lanceolate, acu- 

 minate. Pod 2 in. long, flattish, 6-8-seeded. 



Sttbgen. 2. Neurocarpum. Pod turgid, with a rib along the face of 

 the valves. 



5. C. cajanaefolla, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. 121. Neurocarpum 

 cajanaefolium, Presl, Symh. 17, t. 9. N. retusum, Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 376. 



Malacca and Sutcapoeb, G. Thomson, Griffith, &c. — Distreb. Java, Trop. 

 America. 



A suberect undershrub, with terete pilose branches. Leaflets 3, obovate or oblan- 

 ceolate, subcoriaceous, 2-5 in. long, obtuse, grey-canescent beneath ; petiole scarcely 

 any. Flowers usually 2, distinctly peduncled ; bracteoles small, ovate or lanceolate. 

 Calyx f in. ; teeth much shorter than the tube. Corolla pale violet, twice the calyx 

 or more ; standard 1 J in. broad. 



77. DOXiXCKOS, Linn. 



Twining herbs, with stipeDate 3-foliolate leaves and minute subpersistent 

 bracts bracteoles and stipules. Flowers racemose or axillary. Calyx-tube 

 campanulate ; teeth long or short. Corolla much exiierted ; its petals usually 

 equri in length ; keel obtuse or rostrate, not spiral. Stamens diadelphous ; an- 

 thers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform or thickened 

 upwards, bearded down the inner face or round the terminal stigma. Pod &a,t, 

 Unear or oblong, recurved. — Distkib. Species about 20, wide-spread in tropics 

 of both hemispheres. 



STTBOEif. 1. Xiablab, Sam. Style thickened upwards, narrowed to the 

 base, bearded down the inner edge. 



1. D. Ziablab, Zinn. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 305 ; pod recurved-oblong 

 2-4-8eeded, flowers middle-sized, pedicels short, keel narrow^ rostrate. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 896. Lablab vulgaris, Savi; DC. Prodr. ii. 401 ; Wall. Cat. 5536; W. 

 ^ A. Prodr. 250. Dolichos lignosus, lAnn. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 307 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 380. Lablab lignosus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5537. L. cultratus, DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 402 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 261. L. microcarpus, perennans, leucocarpus and 

 nankinensis, DC. loo. eit. D. benghalensis, Jacq. Sort. Viiid. t. 124. D. 

 purpureus, Idnn. ; Bot. Beg. t. 830. D. festivus, Wall. Cat. 5551. D. cuspi- 

 datus, Orah. in Wall. Cat. 6566. D. Ourtisii, O. Dm Oard. Diet. ii. 357. 



Wild and universally cultivated throughout India, ascending in the Himalayas 

 to 6-7000 ft.— DisTEiB, Tropics of the Old World. 



Subglabrous, wide-twining, perennial, or under cultivation annual. Stipules lanceo- 

 late, basifixed ; leaflets as broad as long, always entire, acute, 2-6 in. long, broad 

 ovate, membranous, rarely downy beneath. Eacemes and peduncles each reaching 

 i^ ft. long ; pedicels densely fascicled, ^ or finally \ in. ; bracteoles oblong, some- 

 times as long as the calyx. CcClyx ^-\ in. ; teeth short, deltoid. . Corolla red- 

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