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Pisum. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 321 
1. C. Ternatea, Willd, iii. LOGS. 
Shrubby, twining. Leaves pinnate. Peduncles axillary, 
one-flowered, : 
Teling. Nella dintana, the blue flowered variety; and tella 
dintana the white. 
Sans. Asphota, Uparajita. 
Beng. Uparajita. ‘ 
Flos coeruleus, Rumph. Amb. v. t. 31. 
Schanga cuspi. Rheed. Mal. viii, t. 38. 
Common in every hedge ail over India, and in flower the 
greater part of the year. Its root probably is not inferior to 
jalap as a cathartic; the powdered seed is also purgative. 
2. C. heterophylla, Lamarck, 
Perennial, twining. Leaves pinnate. Leaflets three, five, 
seven, or nine, from round to linear, 
It is in flower and seed the whole year, Its delicate twin- 
ing habit, variously shaped Jeaves,and beautiful azure flowers 
render it very ornamental. 
PISUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1184. 
Style triangular, above keeled, pubescent. Calyx with the 
two upper segments shorter. 
P. sativum. Willd. iii. 1070. 
Petioles round. Stipules rounded at bottom and crenate. 
Peduncles many-flowered. 
_ Hind. and Beng. Mutur, the ite or common white field 
“pea, and Choota Mutur a smal], round greenish variety of the 
‘common gray field pea. The former is cultivated extensive- 
ly in the fields about Patna; and to the westward; the other 
variety is cultivated in every part of Bengal during the cold 
season, 
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