292 DIADELnilA DrCANDHIA. rhctSCOluS. 



The seeds of the species were received into the Botanic 

 garden, from the Mauritius, where 1 am informed the plant 

 is cultivated under the name Lentille De Creole. 



Stem scarcely any, but numerous, short, ramous, ascend- 

 ino', round, smooth branches ; height of the whole plant, in our 

 rich soil of Bengal, about two feet, and spreading fully as 

 much, ieare.s ternate. Xerir^eis of the pair obliquely cor- 

 date, the terminal one trapeziform, all are entire, and tolerably 

 smooth on both sides. Heads solitary, short, on long-, round, 

 smooth, peduncles. Floiuers in pairs, short-pedicelled ; one 

 on each side of a large, roundish gland, large, of a bright yel- 

 low. Bractes of the pedicel solitary, lanceolate ; of the calyx 

 in pairs, lanceolate. Banner very broad, reniform. Horn 

 of the keel remarkably long and pointed. Lpfjinne cylindric, 

 horizontal, straight, pointed, from three to four inches long, 

 and about as thick as a goose-quill. Seeds ten or twelve, 

 cylindric, truncated at both ends, dark brown, with lighter 

 coloured spikes. 



n. P. Mmujo. WiUd. iii. 1036. 



Annual, sub-erect, ramous, the whole plant hairy, f^^ffj- 

 lets cordate. Stipules ovate oblong. Legnmes horizontal, 

 cylindrical, hairy. Seeds from eight to twelve, green. 



P. hirlus. Retz. Obs.f. iii. .V. 7G. 



Sans. Moodgtf. 



Engl, Green gram. 



Hhid. Walli mung. 



Beng. Moog. 



Teling. Patcha-pessara the name of the plant ; and Patcha- 

 pessaloo of the grain. 



This is one of the sorts of dry grain of the leguminous kind, 

 Mhich is much cultivated all over India during the cold sea- 

 son. I never saw it wild. 



Stem annual, erect, ramous, generally about two feet high, 

 angular, very hairy, as is every part of the plant. Leaves 

 terminal. Leaflets slightly acute, the lateral ones obliquely 



