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Description of Legumes 
Canavalia ensiformis DC (JAcKBEAN)— 
A coarse, bushy, or climbing annual herb, 
with purple flowers, introduced from the 
West Indies and grown in the Southern 
States to a limited extent as a: forage plant. 
The pods make good snap beans when less 
than 6 inches long, and the beans them- 
selves are reputedly used as a coffee substi- 
tute. It is also known as chickasaw-lima, 
swordbean, and sabrebean. 
Cicer arietinum L (CuHIcKPEA)—A hairy 
bushy Eurasian annual about 2 feet high, 
sometimes called garbanzo, adapted espe- 
cially to semiarid areas. The herbage is 
considered poisonous to livestock. It is 
much grown in southern Europe, Asia, and 
Mexico for its seeds, which are used for cat- 
tle and human food. In India it is a staple 
crop, called gram, and annually occupies 
some 14 million acres of land. 
Clitoria mariana L (CLiror1A)—An erect 
or ascending occasionally twining trifolio- 
late hardy perennial with large pale blue or 
pinkish flowers about 2 inches long. It has 
also been called butterfly-pea and occurs in 
dry sandy soil from New York to Florida, 
west to Missouri, Texas, and Arizona. 
Colutea arborescens L (TREE COLUTEA) 
—A yellow-flowered shrub native to south- 
ern Europe and northern Africa, sometimes 
15 feet in height. It is also called bladder- 
senna. 
Coronilla waria L (CRrowNvetcH)—An 
herbaceous perennial, with pinnate leaves 
and pinkish-white flowers in long-stalked 
clusters. In the eastern United States it is 
used as a hardy, trailing border plant in 
gardens. 
Coursetia—A genus including more than 
a dozen species of trees and shrubs, largely 
of South and Central America. Two species, 
both shrubs or small trees, occur in the 
United States. One of these is Coursetia 
axillaris C. and R., known as Texas cour- 
setia and baby bonnets, which is found in 
southern Texas. The other is Coursetia 
glandulosa Gray (C. microphylla Gray), the 
rosary coursetia, of southern Arizona. 
Crotalaria spectabilis Roth (SHowy crRo- 
TALARIA)—A tall branching annual,. with 
showy yellow flowers and large simple obo- 
vate leaves. It is native to India, but is 
now grown throughout the Tropics and lo- 
cally in this country, where it occurs as an 
escape from Virginia to Florida. It is used 
as a green manure and cover crop in sandy 

well-drained soils and has proved especially. 
valuable in Florida tung and citrus groves 
before the trees are tall enough to produce 
much shade. 
Crotalaria striata DC (STRIPED CROTA- 
LARIA)—An introduction from eastern Africa 
used somewhat as a green manure and cover 
crop in the South. It has large trifoliolate 
leaves, and the yellowish flowers are boldly 
streaked with purplish-brown ; hence the ver- 
nacular name here applied to the species: 
|Cytisus scoparius (L) Link (Scotcu 
BRooM)—An evergreen shrub up to 10 feet 
in height, producing masses of brilliant yel- 
low flowers in early Spring. It has been 
introduced from. Europe and is established 
in the northeastern and northwestern United | 
States. 
Daubentonia drummondii Rydb (RaAt- 
TLE-Box)—-A shrubby perennial, with pale- 
yellow flowers and narrow pinnately com- 
pound leaves that have as many as 60 leaf- 
lets. 
Desmanthus illinoensis Michx (ILLINOIS 
DESMANTHUS)—An erect or ascending her- 
baceous perennial up to 3 feet in height, 
with flowers and leaves similar to those of 
the preceding species. 
Dioclea multiflora (BoyKIN DIOCLEA)— 
A perennial purple-flowered shrubby climber, 
the only member of the genus found in this 
country. It occurs on shaded river banks 
from Georgia to Arkansas and Louisiana. 
Dolichos lablab L (HyAcINTH-BEAN )— 
A species of the Indian tropics, also called | 
bonavist, black-bean, and Egyptian bean, 
which has been used since ancient times in 
Africa and southern Asia much as cowpeas 
are used in the United States. 
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