LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONACEZ. 251 
afterwards connate with remainder; anthers uniform. Germen 
sessile or very shortly stipitate, «-ovulate ; style curved or involute 
beardless ; apex minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong 
or broadly linear, neck slightly arched or nearly straight, compressed 
or rather turgid ; superior suture produced at both ends into a wing 
or longitudinal rib; usually membranous stuffed within between 
seeds, finally (usually by elasticity) 2-valved. Seeds (often large) 
nearly round, ovate, or long-ellipsoidal, slightly compressed ; hilum 
linear elongated; radicle inflexed, usually slightly compressed.— 
Herbs, twining or prostrate; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate ; 
stipules small or minute, wart-like or gland-like ; flowers’ in axillary 
racemes, subsolitary or oftener fascicled in axil of each bract; rachis 
of fascicle node-like ; bracts and bractlets caducous small (4// warm 
regions’). 
44, Cajanus DC.'—Receptacle concave, lined by a disk produced 
into a short unequally crenulate sheath round base of gynzceum. 
Standard suborbicular reflexed, furnished with inflexed auriculate 
appendages at base, wings oblique; keel curved at apex, obtuse. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); vexillary stamen wholly free; 
anthers uniform. Germen subsessile «-ovulate; style thin, thickened 
above middle, glabrous; apex obliquely capitate, stigmatiferous. 
Legume linear compressed, obliquely acute at apex, depressed outside 
in oblique linear dents between seeds, spuriously celled within ; cells 
oo, l-seeded. Seeds subspherical, slightly compressed; hilum 
lateral oblong, thickened into a small longitudinally furrowed aril.— 
An erect undershrub ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate exstipellate ; leaflets 
usually tomentose and sprinkled with minute resinous dots ; 
long subulate caducous; flowers’ 
scattered along the rachis ; 
bractlets 0 (All hot regions’). 
stipules 
in axillary pedunculate racemes, 
rachis not node-like; bracts caducous ; 
out appendages. Keel produced into an inflexed 
or spiral beak.—2. Malocchia. Superior lip of 
calyx 2-lobed. Standard with auriculate ap- 
pendages. Keel curved, obtuse, without beak” 
(BENTH.). 
1 Large, handsome; whitish, pink, or purple- 
violet. 
2 Jacq. Icon. Rar. t. 559, 550; Hort. 
Schanbr., t. 221.—Wient, Icon. t. 753.— 
Gavpicy,, Voy, Freycin., Bot. t. 113, -= 
Bentu., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 175, t. 48.— 
Bot. Mag., t. 1199.—Baxer, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr., ii. 189.—Watp., Rep., i. 765. 
3 DC., Cat. Hort. Monspel., 85; Prodr., ii. 
406.—Evrovt., Gen., n. 6686.—B. H., Gen., 541, 
n. 228.— Cajan Apans., Fam. des PL., ii, 326.— 
Dop.-Tu., in Dict. Se. Nat., vi. 166. 
4 Yellow or purple-striped. 
5 Species 1, widely cultivated (Asiatic ?), C. 
indicus SpRune., Syst., ii, 248. — BaKER, in 
