248 LEGVMINOS^. [Ctamopsis. 



small, purplish. Calyx'tuhe oblique ; teeth unequal, the lowest 

 elongated and setaceous. 'Petals caducous, standard and wings 

 narrow ; Iceel obtuse, slightly incurved. Stamens 1-adelphous ; 

 anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary sessile, linear, 6-8-ovuled ; style 

 short, filiform, much incurved, stigma capitate. I*od linear, straight, 

 subtetragonous, septate between the seeds. — Species 2, one in India 

 and the other Ti-opical African. 



C. psoralioides, BC. Prod, ii, 216 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 197 ; Boyle III. 

 190; F.B.I, a, 92; Field Sf Gard. Crops II,24,t. XXXV; Watt E:D. 

 Dolichos fabsef ormis, L'Herit. ; Roxh. b'l. Ind, Hi, 316. — Vern. Guar 

 (Meerut) dararJii ( Farukhabad), huivdra (sub-montane tract), hhurti and 

 Tchulthi, (Muttra and Aligarh). 



A robust annual, 2-4 ft. high, with erect 4-sided stems. Leaves 3- 

 f oliolate ; %>etioles 1-2 in., channelled above ; stipules linear- setaceous ; 

 leaflets 2-3 in. long, ovate, acute, coarsely toothed. Flowers in long 

 axillary racemes, shortly stalked, pale-purple ; hracts overtopping the 

 flower-buds. Calyx ^-^ in. Corolla slightly exserted. Pod 1^-2 in. 

 long, erect, 3-keeled on back, 8-12-seeded. 



Cultivated in many parts of the area, and in other parts of India from 

 the Punjab southwards ; but nowhere has it been found wild, except, 

 perhaps in the Eawal Pindi district by Dr. Aitchison. Afghanistan is 

 given as one of its habitats, and it may have been brought into India 

 from that direction, but Boissier makes no mention of it in his' Flora 

 Orientalis'. In the Doab cf the upper Gangetic Plain guar is grown 

 during the rainy season, and for two distinct purposes, viz, as a vegeta- 

 ble for human consumption, and as a pulse for feeding cattle. In the 

 former case it is grown on specially manured land, and the part which 

 is eaten is the young green pod. As a fodder crop its cultivation is 

 mostly confiined to the districts of the Meerut Division. 



35. INDIGOFEBA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. II, 92. 

 Herbs or shrubs clothed more or less densely with appressed hairs 

 attached by their middle, often silvery-canescent. Flowers usually 

 in copious axillary racemes. Calyx minute, campanulate ; teeth sub- 

 equal, or the lowest longest. Corolla caducous, standard obovate ; 

 Tceel straight, not beaked, spurred on each side near the base, 

 Stamens 2-adelphous, anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary sessile, 

 usually many-ovuled ; style short, incurved ; stigma capitate, usually 

 penicillate. Pod usually linear-cylindrical, rather oblong or globose, 

 turgid, rarely flattish or sickle-shaped or armed. — Species about 250, 

 in all tropical regions, abundant also in S. Africa. 



Leaves simple. 



Pod globose, 1-seeded 1.1. linifolia. 



Pod oblong, l-2-8eeded 2. /. cordifolia. 



