Cylista
(from kylix; in reference to the calyx being very large). ORD. Leguminosae. A stove evergreen woody twiner, with axillary simple racemes of yellow flowers, pinnately-trifoliolate leaves, and rhomboid or ovate, acute, stipellate leaflets; bracts large, caducous. It thrives in a compost of loam and peat. Cuttings will root in sand, if placed in bottom heat, and covered with a glass.
C. albiflora (white-flowered). A synonym of Rhynchosia cyanosperma albiflora. C. scariosa (scarious). fl. pale yellow, mixed with red; calyx very large, scarious, with the upper segment emarginate, lower one very large. East Indies, 1806.