Phaseolus, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 297 
with the seeds of the same culmiferous plants. Like black 
pessaloo, it thrives the beiter by having a few showers after 
itissown. Its produce is also about thirty-fold. 
Cattle eat the straw of this, and it is reckoned very nou- 
_ Mshing for them, 
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13. P. aureus. Roxb. 
Annual, diffuse, round, hairy. Leaflets semi-cordate, ex- 
terior rhomboidal. Horn of the keel large, obtuse. Legumes 
cylindric, straight, pendulous, hairy, torulose, with eight or 
ten oval yellow seeds, 
Beng. Sona Moog. 
1 have only found this plants in its cultivated state in Ben- 
gal. I believe it is unknown to the Coromandel coast. Seed- 
time the close of the rains, in October or November. The 
harvest is in February, when the plants perish. 
Root nearly simple, perpendicular. Stem very short, but 
several spreading branches rest close on the ground, they are 
from one to two feet long, round and hairy. Leaves long-pe- 
tioled, ternate. Leajflets, the pair semi-cordate, or nearly so, 
the exterior one rhomboidal, all are entire, and a little hairy 
on both sides, from two to three inches long, and from one 
and a half to two broad. Petioles as long as the leaflets, 
channelled, hairy. Stipules of the petiole adjoined, oblong, 
those of the leaflets narrow lanceolate. Peduneles axillary, 
solitary, in a-rich soil often proliferous, by the time the seeds 
are ripe they are about as long as the petioles. lowers 
many, Short-pedicelled, of a greenish yellow, livid on the out- 
sidé, brighter -within. Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, one 
under the pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally, they 
are all boat-shaped, acute and hairy, Calyx four-cleft, the 
upper division broad, and emarginate. Corol as in the other 
species with the horn of the carina large, and obtuse... Le- 
gumes reflexed, straight, acute, cylindric, torulose, as thick 
as a quill, about two and a half inches long, black and hairy, 
Seeds from six to twelve, small, nee shits 
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