256 • LEGUMINOSJS. [Cicee. 



<■ is an important rainy-season crop within the area. Full particulars 

 regarding its cultivation, etc. will be found in Pr. Watt's Dictionary 

 article. 



17. I; pulchella, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 51 ; FL Ind Hi, 382 ; W. 4- A, 



Prod. 208 ; D. Sr G. Bomb. PI. 60; Brand. For. Fl. 136; F.B.I, ii, 101; 

 Watt E.D. ; Brain in Journ. Bot. XL {1902), 142. T. purpurascens, Roxh.; 

 Fl. Ind. Hi, 383. I. violacea, Eoxb. I. c. 380. I. atropurpurea, Buch.-Ham . 

 in Don. Prod. 244. 



A large shrub, up to 12 ft. high. Branches obscurely hispid, thinly 

 coated with deciduous appressed hairs. Leaves 3-6 in. long, shortly 

 petioled ; leaflets 13-21, opposite, |-1 in. lung, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 often emarginate, subcoriaceous, pale-green above, glaucous beneath, 

 thinly clothed on both sides with short appressed grey hairs ; stipels 

 very minute or O, Racemes 1-3 in., short-peduncle d. Flowers vnany, 

 rather crowded, pedicels short ; bracts boat-shaped, cuspidate, exceeding 

 the buds. Calyx y\ i^-j silvery-canescent ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla 



' f-l in. or longer, bright rose; petals glabrous external y, standard re- 

 flexed. Pod I5-I5 in., turgid, glabrous, 8-12-seeded, sutures broad. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range in sal forests, Eohilkhand and forests of 

 N. Oudh, Bundelkhand and Merwara. Distkib. Salt range in the 

 Punjab, W. Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. in Kumaon, and in the hilly parts 

 of C, W. and S. India, also in Burma. Flowers during the cold 

 season. The root is used medicinally, the pink flowers are eaten as a 

 vegetable, and the branches are useful for fences. 



36. GICEB» Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 176. 



Annual herbs. Leaves pinnate, rigid ; leaflets and stipules 

 strongly veined, deeply toothed. Flowers solitary in the axils of 

 the leaves. Calyx-tuhe oblique ; teeth lanceolate, snbequal. Corolla 

 exserted ; standard broad, exceeding the wings and keel, wings free 

 from the keel. Stamens 2-adelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary 

 sessile, 2- or many-ovuled ; style incurved, beardless, stigma capitate. 

 JPod sessile, oblong, turgid, narrowed into the persistent style. — 

 Species 14, Mediterranean, and in W. & C Asia. 



C. arietinum, Linn. Sp. PI. 738 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 324; W. 4r A. 

 Prod. 235; Royle III. 200; F. B. I. ii, 176; DO. L'Orig., PI. Cult. 258; Field 

 ^ Gard. Crops I, 33, t. viii. Watt E. D. — Vern. Ghana. (Gram, or chick- 

 pea)- 



A viscid much-branched annual. Leaves 1-2 in. long, with usually a 

 terminal leaflet ; stipules small, obliquely ovate, toothed ; leaflets about 

 i in. long, ovate oblong or obovate, deeply cut. Peduncle ^-| in., 

 jointed about the middle, deflexed after flowering. Calyx |-f in., teeth 

 linear. Corolla scarcely half as long again as the calyx, pink, blue or 



