298 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA,. Phaseolus. 
_ The seeds form an article of the diet of the natives ; and are 
to be found in every bazar. The general price in Calcutta, 
is about two rupees and a half for a maund of eighty-four 
pounds weight. | 
14. P. torosus, Roxb. ms 
Annual, rigid, erect, almost branchless, villous, Leaflets 
oval. Racemes axillary, one,two or more together ; sub-ses- 
sile, much shorter than the petioles. Legumes cylindric, 
drooping, torose, smooth, longer than the raceme, from six to 
ten-seeded. Seed oval, white. - 
Seeta Maas of the Newars, 
One of the cultivated legumes of Nepal; from thence Dr. 
Buchanan sent the seeds to the Botanic garden in 1802, 
where they produced a luxuriant crop during the cold season 
of 1802—3. __ : 
Root annual. Stem erect, often simple, or with an esti 
downy branch or two, height of the whole plant, when reared. 
during the cold season, from one to two feet. Leaves oblong, 
petioled, ternate. Leaflets ovate-cordate, entire, a_ little 
downy. Stipules adjoined, rather smaller than most of the 
other species of this genus; those of the leaflets, lanceolate. 
Racemes axillary, numerous, often several from the same axill, 
much shorter than the peduncle, lengthening a little as the 
seeds advance to maturity. Flowers numerous, though rare- 
ly more than one on the same raceme, expanding at the same 
time, of a pale sulphur colour ; they expand late in the day, 
and soon shut and remain umensied amongst numerous sca- 
riose bractes. Calya, divisions five and nearly equal, Horn 
of the carina small, Legumes reflexed, cylindric, torose, 
smooth, from six to ten-seeded, and longer than the whole of 
the raceme. Seeds short, spisenliadsies smooth, of a icine cream. 
colour. 
15. P. trilobus. Willd, iii, 1035. . 
Herbaceous, iene: Leaflets pleas Lobes 
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