Vicia. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEX (BAKER). 178 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Agrees with the European var. Bobartii in habit, differing only in the small pale 
corolla. The typical V. sativa is much cultivated in Abyssinia, under the name of 
Ententeratt. 
V. Faba, L., the common bean, is cultivated in Abyssinia under the name of 
Aterbari. 
2. V. paucifolia, Baker. An erect glabrous annual about a foot 
high, with slender acutely tetragonous stems. Stipules 3-4 lines 
long, both blade and spur linear. Leaves subsessile, with two 
pairs of linear leaflets 12-18 lines long, 1-1} lines broad, and a simple 
twining tendril. Flowers 1—3 on a peduncle 9-12 lines long, secund. 
Pedicels 14-2 lines long, glabrous. Calyx 2 lines deep, elabrous, the 
linear-setaceous teeth reaching halfway down. Corolla } in. deep, 
pale lilac. Pod linear, an inch long, } in. broad, shortly stipitate, gla- 
brous, 6—9-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper / : ; 
Closely allied to the South American V. graminea, Smith (V. bidentata), Hook. 
3. V. hirsuta, Koch Syn. 191. Stems annual, slender, trailing, 
pubescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, with one or more setaceous teeth, 
Leaflets in 8-10 pairs, linear. Flowers 3-6 in a stalked dense raceme. 
Calyx } in. deep, the teeth linear. Style slightly compressed. Pod 4 
lines lone by half as broad, hairy, 2-seeded.—Zrvum hirsutum, Linn. Sp. 
1039. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 197. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
. a Lens is cultivated in Abyssinia under the name of Messer and Bersem, and also 
in Nubia, 
49. LATHYRUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. i. 526. 
Calyx-tube oblique, the upper teeth shorter. Standard orbicular, 
shortly unguiculate ; keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens monudelphous or 
diadelphous, the mouth of the sheath not oblique. Ovary sessile (rarely 
Stipitate) multiovulate; style inflexed, flattened vertically upwards, 
bearded on the inner face. Pod compressed or subterete, two-valved, 
continuous within, many-seeded.—Herbs with the petiole in all our 
Species extending into a clasping tendril. 
A large genus, with a geographical range like that of Vicia. 
Perennial ; stems not winged; flowers inracemes . . . .. . LI. L. pratensis. 
An erect annual, with winglessstems . . . .1 . - .. . . 2. LD. sphericus. 
iffuse annuals, with winged stems. 
Pod oblong, narrowly winged down each side of the upper suture 3. D. sativus. 
Pod linear, not WINGO (oso 3... . 4. ba 
1. L. pratensis, Z.; DC. Prod.ii.370. A diffuse perennial, the stems 
slender, wingless. Leaves with a single pair of lanceolate leaflets. 
Flowers middle-sized, bright yellow, 4-12 together in long-stalked 
axillary racemes. Pod linear, an inch or more long, 3 lines thick, finally 
black.—A. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 199. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! F 
Ranges throughout Europe to the north-west of India. 
