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beardless, slightly dilated below the obliquely terminal -i iL r m.i : pod linear, obliquely 

 acute, compressed, 2-valved, with transverse constrictions between the Beede on the 

 oui side, scarcely Beptate within; seeds subglobose, Blightly compressed. Erect under- 

 Bhrubs; leaves pinnate; Leaflets 3; Btipules subulate, caducous; flowers yellow, usually 

 veined with purple in axillary pedunculate racemes; bracts deciduous. 



1. Cajanus indicus Spreng." 



(Urban, 306.) 



(Jndershrub 2.5 to 3 meters high, erect; branches angular, finely gray-silky with 



a* I pressed hairs; petioles I to 1 cm. long; Leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, I to LOcm. 

 long, acute, subcoriaceous, the upper surface glabrous, the Lower gray-sih ery; flowers 

 in 2 to 8-flow'ered axillary racemes, yellow or Bometimes the Btandard spotted with 

 orange; pedicels 0.6 to L. 5 cm. long; calyx silky, 6.5 to 8.5 mm. deep, the teeth Lanceo- 

 late, not reaching halfway down; corolla L.5 to L.8 cm. deep; pod 5 to 8 cm. Long, 0.9 

 to 1.5 cm. broad, 'A to 5-seeded, finely pubescent . 



Cultivated and seemingly spontaneous near Bayamon; near Lares; at Perchas and at 

 Espino; near Maricao on the declivities of Mount Montoso; near Mayaguez, in coast dis- 

 tricts at Algarrol).). Bermuda I Eemsley), Bahama. Cuba (Grisebach . Jamaica, Haiti. 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John (Eggere), Si. Martin (Stockholm Berbarium . St. Bar- 

 tholomew (do.), St. Kitts (Grisebach), Antigua (do.), Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. 

 Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad (Grisebach), Margarita. Cultivated through- 

 out (he Tropics; probably indigenous in Africa. 



The seeds taste like a coarse description of field peas and are sold either in the form 

 of split peas or of flour in India, where they are highly esteemed by the nat ivee The 

 young pods are used for salad. The routs, loaves, and flowersare employedas a medi- 

 cament. The leaves are considered excellent as a fodder for eat tic 



Local names, gandul, gandures. 



63. RHYNCHOSIA Lour. 



Dolicholus Medic. Vorles. Churpf. Phys, Ges. 2: 354. 1787. 



Rkynchosia Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 2: 460. 1790. 



Rynchosia Macf ad. Fl. Jam. 1: 275. 1837. 



< 

 Calyx campanulate or tubuliform-campanulate, the 2 upper lobes more mi- less con- 

 nate; standard orbicular or obovate, usually with indexed auricles at the base; wings 

 narrow; keel incurved at the apex; upper stamen free; ovary sessile or uearly so, with 

 •_' or very rarely 1 ovule; style incurved upward, filiform or incrassated; stigma small 

 terminal, capitate; pod oblique, orbicular, oblong, or slightly curved, compressed, 

 2-valved, continuous or rarely septate internally: seeds 2. rarely ovoid or almost ivni- 

 form, compressed, with a lateral short or oblong hilum, the funicle centrally attached- 

 with or without a strophiole. — Twining or trailing, rarely erect herbs or undershrubs; 

 leaves pinnate; leaflets 3, seldom only 1, without stipels; stipules ovate, subulate per- 

 sistent or caducous; flowers yellow, the standard often streaked with brown or purple, 

 more rarely purple, white, or greenish; peduncle axillary, hearing a raceme or rarely 

 single flowers; bracts deciduous 



KEY TO TIIK SPECIES. 



Calyx segments lanceolate, several times longer than tie' very 

 short tube, and as long as or longer than the standard. (Section 

 AucYrnvi i i \i Ell, as genus.) 



Legume pubeseent 0T glabreseent. not constricted, 2.2 to 6.6 

 mm. long; seeds nearly black, reniform-roundish, com- 

 pressed, about 1 mm. in diameter. 1. A', reticulata. 



" Cook and Collins, p. loo. as Cajanua cajan. 



