Cologania
(named after a family of the name of Cologan, who resided at Port Orotava, in Teneriffe, and from whom men of science visiting that island experienced the greatest hospitality). ORD. Leguminosae. Stove procumbent or twining shrubs, beset with retrograde hairs. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedunculate, or in short racemes. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, rarely one or five-foliolate. For culture, see Clitoria.
C. biloba (two-lobed). fl. violet, racemose. l. ternate, clothed with adpressed hairs. h. 20ft. Summer and autumn. Mexico. Conservatory. SYN. Glycine biloba. (B. R. 1418.) C. Broussonetii (Broussonet's). fl. violet, twin, shortly pedicellate; calyx villous, rather five-cleft. l., leaflets ovate-oblong, mucronate, rather strigose on both surfaces, paler beneath. Mexico, 1827. Other species quoted as being in cultivation are: angustifolia and pulchella.