214 LEG TJM.IJS08M. [Dunbaeia. 



Extensively grown within the area, but usually as a subordinate crop 

 along with ^uar, hajra and cotton. It is sown at the commencement of 

 the rainy season, and occupies the ground until the following March or 

 April. It is liable to be injured by frtfst. DeCandolle regarded it as 

 having originally been introduced from Tropical Africa. Dr. Prain, 

 however, believes that it may be indigenous in S. E, Asia, It is culti- 

 vated throughout the northen parts of India, and everywhere in the 

 tropics. The pulse, which is extremely nutritions, is eaten by all 

 classes of people in India It is sold either in the form of split peas 

 {ddl), or as a flour. The leaves afford excellent fodder. 



9. DUNBARIA, W. & A. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 217. 



Woody or herbaceous climbers. Leaves 8-foliolate, distinctly 

 gland-dotted beneath. Flowers racemose or axillary. Calyx-teeth 

 narrow, the lowest exceeding the others. Corolla exserted, iiiavces- 

 cent or caducous ; heel usually not beaked. Stamens 2-adel|i.hous, 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovaled ; style 

 inliexed, filiform, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flat, not 

 or indistinctly marked with depressed lines between the sub^tvophio- 

 late seeds. — Species about 12, inhabiting E. Asia, Japan and N. 

 Australia. 



D. glandulosa Train in Journ. As. Soc. JBeng. LXVI (1897), 483. 

 Atylosia rostrata, Baker in F. B. I. ii, 216. Cajanus glandulosus 

 D. Sf G. Boiub. Fl. 73. 



A woody climber, densely clothed with short tomentum. Leaves long- 

 petioled, pinnately 3-f oliolate ; leaflets S-i in. each way, terminating in a 

 cuspidate point, suddenly narrowed to the base, subcoriaceous, green 

 and glabrous above, canescent and gland-pubescent beneath, exstipellate. 

 Flowers in pairs, large, yellow, in long-peduncled lax racemes over- 

 topping the leaves ; pedicels about | in. long, deflexed in fruit. Calyx 

 f in., broadly campanulate, sparsely bristly, teeth shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla 1 in. long ; heel broad, beaked ; standard furnished with calli at 

 the base. Pod 25-3 in, long, linear, pointed, clothed with yellowish 

 bulbous-based bristles, recurved, 8-lu-seeded. 



Saugor (Jerdon), Disteib. C. and N. India, Bengal, Burma and Shan 



10. CYLISTA, Ait. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 219. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers racemed. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate ; teeth scariose, persistent, the lowest much the 

 largest and boat-shaped, the two side-ones smaller than the two upper. 

 Corolla enclosed in the calyx, petals equal in length ; heel much 

 incurved, truncate. Stamens 2-adelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary 

 subsessile, 1-ovuied ; style long, filiform, stigma capitate. Pod 



