298 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, PllttSeoluS. 



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. Roxh, 



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 erect, 

 downy branch or two, height of the whole plant, when reared 

 during the cold season, from one to two feet. Leaves oblong, 

 petioled, ternale. 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, /^lowers 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 concealed amongst numerous sca- 

 riose bractes. Calyx, divisions ^\e 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 ruceme. Seeds short, sub-cylindric, smooth,of a pale cream 

 colour. 



15. P. trilobns. Willd. iii. 1035. 



Herbaceous, procumbent. Leaflets three-lobed. Lobes 



