296 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Phaseolus. 
13. P. radiatus, Willd, iii, 1036. 
Annual, diffuse, hairy. Leaflets elliptic. Stipules lan- 
ceolate. Horn of the keel very long. Legumes cylindric, 
straight, hairy. Seeds from four to six, black, with gray © 
spots. 
Beng. Mash-Kulwy ; in some provinces of Hindoosthan it 
is called Dord, 
Tekeree, is a small black-seeded variety. 
Sans. Masha. 
Teling. Minoomoo the name of the plant, and mimoomooloo 
the grain. 
This like the former two I have found only in a cultivated 
state ; it is also annual. 
Stem scarcely any. Branches many, from one to three feet 
long, procumbent, winding, somewhat angular and a little. 
twisted ; it is less hairy than the former two species, and the 
hairs less harsh. Leaves alternate, ternate, Leaflets nearly 
equal, oblong, pointed, slightly scolloped, both sides hairy, 
three or four inches long and one and a half, or two broad. 
Petioles longer than the leaflets, channelled, hairy. Stipules 
of the petioles adjoined, oblong, pointed at both ends; those of 
the leaflets narrow-lanceolate, ending in a bristle. Peduncles 
axillary, erect, shorter than the petioles, hairy ; the apex sur- 
rounded with many flower-bearing glandular tuberosities. 
Bractes as in the former. Flowers from four to eight in each 
peduncle, middle-sized, yellow. Calyx pretty smooth, Ban- 
ner, opposite to the horn of the keel is a pit, which receives 
the horn till the flower opens. Kee/, the horn mentioned in - 
the former two is here remarkably large. Legumes nearly 
erect, straight, cylindric, acute, two inches long, very hairy. 
Seeds small, from four to six, black, with gray spots. 
- This sort is the most esteemed of all the Legumine, and 
bears the highest price. Of the meal they make bread for 
many of their religious ceremonies. It requires a similar soil 
to green and black pessaloo, and is generally sownabout the — 
Jatter part of the rams in November, either alone or mixed 
