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41. Arachis hypog^a Linn., Sp. PI. 741 ; Roxb., Flor. Tnd., 
iii., 280 i Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 161; Watt, Diet., i., 282. 
The Ground-Nut. 
Minikoij cultivated, Fleming ! 
A native of America, cultivated largely in Southern India, more 
rarely in other parts. 
42. Desmodium triflorum DC., Prodr., ii., 334; Hook, f., 
Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 173. Hedysarum trijiorum Linn., Sp. PI. 749 ; 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 353, 
Akati; Fleming! Kadamum; Fleming! Kiltan ; Fleming! 
Minikoi; Fleming! 
A cosmopolitan tropical weed. 
43. Clitoria Ternatea Linn., Sp. PI. 753; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 
iii., 321 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 208; Watt, Diet., ii., 375. 
Ameni; cultivated, Hume. 
In gardens, or as an escape, throughout the tropics; not in 
Australia. 
44. Mucuna capitata W. & A., Prodr., 255; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., ii., 187. Carpopogon capitatum Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii,, 284. 
Amdni; in gardens, “ many plants * * * bunches of 
deep blackisk purple flowers, looking like Hamburg grapes,” Hume ! 
India and Java; perhaps only a cultivated form of the common 
Cowhage {Mucuna pruriens DO.) 
45. Canavalia turgida Grail.-irt Wall., Cat. n. 5584 A.;Miq., 
Flor. Ind. Bat.,i., 215. C. ensiformis var. turgida Baker in Hook, 
f,, Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 196. Dolichos rotundifolius Roxb., Flor. Ind., 
iii., 302. Rheede, Hort. Malabar., viii„ t. 43. Probably = C. 
folia DO., Prodr., ii., 404. 
Minikoi; very common, a climber on the Pandanus sea-fence, 
Fleming! 
Littoral species ; coasts of Bengal, Burma, Andamans and Nico- 
bars, Malay Peninsula and Java (M'ig'we?,). Also Coromandel Coast, 
''on islands at mouth of Godaveri river” {Roxhurgh), and Malabar 
Coast, “ locis arenosis’’ Cochin (Rheede). 
Roxburgh’s and Rheede’s plant is, without doubt, from the 
former writer’s account and the latter’s figure of the ^'semi- 
elliptic’’ (Roxburgh), turgid pod, the same as Graham’s Wallichian 
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