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broadest near the end, the lower margin there curving up 
abruptly to the short sharp deflexed or hooked point or beak, 
apparently smooth and shining, but whilst gr. and immature 
minutely more or less puberulous, and roughened across obliquely 
with thickly crowded minute raised linear granulations, the 
upper and in less degree the lower sutural margins being ciuiously 
muriculate or verruculate with larger distinct, but still small, 
sharp points. Ripe pods pale yellowish-brown, altogether 
smooth and even, with the murication of the sutures indistinct 
and obsolete or inconspicuous. Seeds 3-5, mostly 4-5, separated 
by partial incomplete dissepiments, oval, more or less compressed, 
5 lines long, 3 broad, 2f thick, very smooth and glossy but not 
shining, very variable in colour, with a large long white linear 
prominent raised bordered spongy hilum obtuse or truncate at 
each end, extending about fths of its length from the base, or 
fths of the whole circumference of the seed. 
The foregoing description is taken from the more common 
purple-fid. var. /3 ; the seeds of which, according to Dr. Wight, 
are bitter, and but little used for food in India as in Mad. 
The white-fid. var. y. differs in nothing but the lighter- or 
brighter-col. seeds and fl. ; for I find neither the 2 bractlets of 
the cal. shorter, nor the wings more adpressed than in my var. 
/3, — the latter being in both varr. not only equally adpressed but 
mutually imbricated, and forming a vault over the keel, whilst 
the bractlets of the cal. are, alike in both, the precise length of 
its tube. The seeds of y. are said by Dr. Wight to be “ highly 
esteemed and much used ” in India. In Mad. those of neither 
sort are held in much repute. 
The murications of the sutures are most conspicuous in the 
gr. or immature pods, and in fact nearly disappear in the ripe fr. 
Hence perhaps L. leucocarpos Savi, or at least its alleged syno- 
nym Dolichos Lablab Grtn., is not really distinct from var. y. 
tt Subordeu II. C^ESALPINIACE^E. 
ft Tribe X. Cassiea:. 
tf29. CiESALPINTA L. 
1. C. SEPIARIA Roxb. 
Densely prickly all over, extensively trailing or climbing ; 1. 
bipinnate, pinnae 4-8 pairs, lfts. in about 10 pairs oblong obtuse; 
rac. terminal erect pyramidal many-fld. velvety-puberulous ; 
pods short broad oblong straight compressed puberulous 6-8- 
seeded. — Wight and Arn. Prodr. FI. Ind. Or. i. 282 ; Wight Ic. 
