236 



Cajanus, DC. 



Cajanus indicus, Spreng. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 216. 



III. — Hughes, Hist. Barbados, t. 19 (Pigeon Pea Tree) ; Plunder, 

 Ic. Burm. t. 114, f. 2 (Cytisus mollis) ; Jacq. Hort. Bot. Vindob. ii. 

 1. 119 (Cytisus Pseudocajari) ; Desc. Ant. iv. t. 280 (Cytisus Cajari) ; 

 Tuss. Ant. iv. t. 32 {Cytisus Cajan) ; Bot. Reg. (1845) t. 31 

 (C. bicolor) ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 30, f. 11 ; Rev. Hort. 1874, p. 191 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6440 ; Duthie, Field Crops, ii. tt. 33, 34 (var. bicolor) ; 

 Church, Food Grains, India, tt. 34, 35 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflan. iii. 

 pt. 3, f. 133 J ; Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, iii. 1892, t. 4 ; Queensland 

 Agric. Journ. ii. lcS98, t. 38 (habit as a field crop) t. 39 (enlarged 

 from Bot. Mag. I.e.) ; Cook, U. S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot. Bull. No. 

 25, 1901, 1. 12 ; L' Agric. prat, pays chauds, v. pt. 2, 1905, p. 56 ; Bull. 

 Econ. Indo-Chine, 1905, p. 1114. 



Vernac. names. — Otili (Lagos, Dawodu); Otili (Yoruba, Millson) ; 

 Wake-n-turawa or Wake-n-damfammi (Kontagora, Dalziel) ; Wake- 

 n-turawa (Zaria, Parsons) ; Fiofio (Onitshi, Young) ; Akokola 

 (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Jinsonge or Quinsonge (Angola, 

 Welwitsch) ; Ahti (Accra, Easmon) ; Mpindamuti (Uganda, Dawe) ; 

 Nkolimbo (Banyoro, Uganda, Dawe) ; Baraz (Unyoro, Grant) ; 

 Ambrevate or Ambrevade (Mauritius, Kew Bull. 1887, p. 8) ; Dhal 

 (India, Walt) ; Rahar-Mah (India, Basu) ; [Kolokoto (Inonga, 

 Lorenzo Marques) ; Ndote (M'Chopes, Zuvalla) ; Boere (Echuaho, 

 Quelimane, Sim] ; [Lenteha fransesa (Guam), Cadios, Kadyos, 

 Cadius, or Caguios (Philippines), Gandul (Porto Rico) Saffbrd'] ; 

 Chinchoncho (Venezuela, Mus. Kew). — Pigeon Pea ; Congo Pea ; 

 Congo Bean ; Angola Pea. 



Used as food — the tender green pods like French Beans, the young 

 green peas like the ordinary garden pea, and the ripe ones whole, 

 split, or ground into meal. The young shoots, and the leaves stripped 

 off at the time the peas are harvested make good fodder for cattle. 



The outer integument of the seed with part of the adhering kernel 

 is a favourite food for milch cows, and the pea or pea meal is largely 

 used in India as a cattle medicine (Watt, Comm. Prod. India, p. 200). 



The leaves are used in Yoruba as a cure for sore throat (Millson, 

 Kew Bull. 1891, p. 217) ; In India for apthae and spongy gums, and 

 for various medicinal purposes (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



In French Guiana the starch obtained from the seeds is employed 

 as a resolutive, the shoots, green pods and flowers as an infusion for 

 pectoral affections, an application of the boiled leaves to heal wounds 

 or sores ; the juice of the leaves, expressed cold, to stop hemorrhage, 

 and a decoction of the leaves to cleanse ulcers (Heckel, PI. Med. et 

 Toxiq. Guy. Franc, in Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, 1897, p. 137). In 

 India the stalks are used as fuel, the larger ones being prized for 

 making gunpowder charcoal ; the thin straight branches for roofing, 

 basket work, the wattling of carts and the tubular wicker work 

 lining of wells (Watt, I.e.). They are used in Kontagora for making 

 fences &c. (Dalziel, Bull. Imp. Inst. 1907, p. 259). 



In Northern Bengal and Assam the plant is specially grown as a 

 food for the lac-insect (I.e.) ; in Madagascar for silkworms (Jumelle, 

 Cult. Col. Aliment, pp. 128-131) ; and also in the Antilles (Tussac, Fl. 

 Ant. iv. p. 96). 



Sow broadcast or in rows 4 to 6 ft. apart. The plant is a perennial but 

 is usually treated as an annual. It will stand a fair amount of drought, 



