Vicia.'] L. LEGUMiNOs^. {J. G. Baker.) 179 



*^- Plains of Punjab, Aitchison. — Distrib. Europe, Orient. 



•^^ Stem slender, glabrons, diffuse. Leaflets 10-12, alternate or opposite, ^1 in. long; 

 stipules minute, Lifid, with linear divisions. Flowers solitary, on short pedicels in the 

 ^Is of the leaves. Calyx ^ in. ;. teeth lanceolate, the upper shorter, curved upwards. 

 Corolla purplish-red, twice the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, deflexed, glabrescent. rather 

 recurved, 1-1^ in. long, 5-6-seeded. 



11. V. sepium, Linn, ; DC, Prodr, ii. 3G4 ; perennial, leaflets multijugate 

 oblong, racemes subsessile 2-6-flowered. Boiss, FL Onent, ii. 568. 



T: Kashmir, temperate region. — Distrib. Europe, Orient, Siberia. 

 '^-Sterns finely downy, suberect, 1-2 ft. Stipules small, deeply toothed ; leaflets 

 10-12, membranous, truncate, ^1 in. long. Bacemes very close, secund, confined to 

 the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx ^ in., glabrous or downy; teeth deltoid -cuspi- 

 date, much shorter than the tube. Corolla reddish, twice the calyx. Pod linear-ob- 

 long, oblique, rostrate, glabrous, 1 in. long, 6-10-seeded. 



12. V. narbonensis, Linn.; DC, Prodr. ii. 364; leaflets large of lowest 

 ifiaves 2 of upper 4-6 obovate, racemes subsessile 2-6-flowered. Boiss, FL 

 Onent, ii. 568, 



PuxjAB, near Peshawur, V'lcary, perhaps introduced. — Disteib. S. Europe, Orient, 

 probably the original of the cultivated Bean. 



- A stout suberect annual. 1-li foot high, glal^rous or finely downy. Stipiiles large, 

 aeeply toothed ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, entire in our plant. Calyx | in. ; lower teeth 

 anceolate, as long as tube ; upper deltoid. Corolla purple, more tlian twice the calyx. 

 Jrod 1^_2 In. long, downy, 6-7-seeded. 



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Eb\-tjmLens, Li7m.; Wall. Cat 5954 (Cicer Lens, Willd. ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 324) 



Roxb. FL Lid, iii. 323 ; WalL Cat, 5951, 



Jje common Lentil, and Vicia Faba, Unn, ; 



i^e^ean, are commonly cultivated, especially in the North-West Provinces. 

 a H ^^^1^ ^ENGHALENsis, Linn, seems to be tho Mediterranean V. atropurpurea, Desf. 



, to have no claim to be regarded as an Indian plant. 



54. Z.ATKYRUS 



y :. 



Ann 



tendril or 

 camnamiiate. oDUQue ; teeth 



1 -iv/i<^c/« racemea or solitary, vait/.i-iuue caiu^auiuiiic; uuiji^uc , i.<^>." 



til? +f "P?^'' ^^°^*- Cbz-o/fo more or less exserted ; standard broad ; keel shorter 



;«^ngs. Stamens 



"thp — . ^"d»- orameris aiadelpnous, tne mourn 01 tue luue uut uuiiquc , o.-- 

 Ifs^ ^ '^^'^- ^^"'■y sulasessile or stalked, niany-ovided ; style flattened, 

 ■JWed on the inner side, stigma capitate. Pod terete or iiattisli, continuous 

 uiin._DisxRiB. Species described 170, spread principally through all the north 



Sub 



GEx. 1. Eulatbyrus. Petiole terminated by a long tendril. 



flowpVc?!' c.'^P'***^a» ■^'•""•.' DC. Prodr. ii. 37-, . ^ ^^ . 



St -^"l ""^ ^ ^o>iK peduncle. Roxh. FL Ind. iii. 322 ; Wall. Cat. o052 ; 

 ""• '" -^oy^e 7?;. 200 ; ^oiss. Fl. Onent. ii. 602. 



teniDprf*^ tlirough the northeru provinces, ascending from the plains of Bengal to tho 

 • • S^Am '^ ^?^'^ ^° Hazaha, Kashmir and Kvmaon.— Distrib. Europe, Orient, Abyssinia, 

 leaf-lit ^^^]"^^^' wingless, much branched. Stipules in pairs adpressed to the stem, 

 equal ] ^"*^'/®' '^r^iK^ate, hastate. Peduncle 2-3 times tho stipule. Calyx j- in. ; teeth 

 •oblon'r, "-"^^ ,'^'^^> exceeding the tube. Corolla yeUow, twice tho calyx. Pod linear- 

 ^ 2. wingless, 4_6.seeded. 



2.t. 



A ' 





annual, stems winge 



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