322 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Lathyrns. 
LATHYRUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1186. 
Style flat, villous above, broader upwards. Two superior 
divisions of the calyx shorter. 
1. L. Aphaca, Willd. iii. 1077. 
Peduneles one-flowered. Tendrils leafless. Stipules ses- 
sile, sagittate-cordate, and obtuse. 
Beng. Musoor chuna. 
Although the stipules do not agree perfectly with Miller’s 
figure, which represents them acute and with short petioles ; 
yet | think they can be nothing more than varieties of the 
same species. 
The flowers of the Indian sort are yellow, the legumes flat, 
and with four or five seeds. Curtis’s figure in his Flora Lon- 
dinensis is more like our Indian variety in the stipulee, but his 
~ legume has seven or eight seeds. 
2. L. sativus. Willd. iti. 1079. 
Stem climbing, smooth, four-seeded, with two of its angles 
winged, Peduncles one-flowered. Tendrils four-leaved.* 
Stipules adjoined, ovate-lanceolate. Legumes ovate-oblong, 
with a double keel on the beak: 
Beng. Kesari, 
Is sown on a strong, rich soil, about the close of es rains, 
in October; the harvest is three or four months after. Like 
other leguminous plants, it affords much wholesome, green 
fodder for cattle; and the seeds, when the plant is suffered 
to remain till they are ripe, are used in diet by the natives. — 
_* Thave seen a whole field with two pair of leaflets to the ten- 
dril ; and near it another, in which there were only one pair ; the 
former by Bikes: osescae s ceseeerncnemestes 
appeared to be no difference mieten: 2 
