1. Cicer arietinum, or Bengal gram, the seeds of which are eaten, and the oxalic acid, which exudes from all parts of the plant, is used as vinegar for curries.
2. Dolichos unifloris, or horse gram, with grey seeds, used for feeding horses and cattle.
3. Dolichos sinensis, or lobia, a twining annual, with large pale violet flowers. The seeds are much used for food.
4. Cajanus Indicus, pigeon-pea, or toor. A shrub three to six feet high, with yellow papilionaceous flowers. This is an excellent pulse, and makes a good peas-pudding.
5. Phaseolus mungo, black gram, or moong. A nearly erect, hairy annual, with greenish-yellow flowers. It is much cultivated, and is a very important article of food.
6. Phaseolus rostratus, or hullounda, a twining plant, with large, deep rose-purple, papilionaceous flowers, grown in Malabar, and other parts of the peninsula.
7. Another kind of moong, called ooreed, with black and white seeds.
8. Lablab cultratus, a twining plant, with white, red, or purple papilionaceous flowers; much cultivated in gardens, and used for food.
9. Dolichos lablab, or bulla, a twining plant of which there are several varieties. The seeds are much eaten by the poorer classes when rice is dear, and are reckoned a wholesome substantial food. Cattle are very fond of the stalks. One variety, with white flowers, is cultivated in gardens, supported on poles, forming arbours about the doors of houses. The pods are eaten, but not the seeds.
