502 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



This is the phint called iu India S/iola, of which ' Shola hats ' are made. 

 Masou says its bark yields a coarse hemp. 



Okmocaepuit, Palisrjt de Beam-ois. 



Calyx 5-toothcd. Pod-joints longitudinally striate or ribbed. Shrubs ^Tith 

 unpaii-ed-pinnate leaves. 



0. sENxoiBES, Willd. Siam and probably Tenasserim. 



0. ochroleucum, ZoU. 



+ 4- Pods not jointed, very rarely 1-seeded. 



Sub-tribe VICIEiE. 



Petiulc terminating in a Iristle or tendril. Leaves alrupthj pinnate. 



* Stamens 10, united into a single slit sheath with the tenth rexillary one free. 

 X Leaflets toothed. Wings free from tlie staminal tube. 

 CiCEE, Linnaus. 

 Style not bearded at the apex. Fod inflated. Fimicle filiform. Erect herbs. 



*C. AEIETEXtTM, L. 



Ea-la-peh. ' Gram.' 



Extensively cultivated, especially in Upper Burma. 



X X Leaflets entire. Wings more or less adhering to the staminal tale. 

 ViciA, Linnaus. 



Staminal tube oblique at the mouth. Style pubescent, or bearded at the apex. 

 Ovules usually numerous. Erect or twining herbs. 



V. SATivA, L. Ava. Bhamo. 



Flowers solitary, almost sessile, nearly ^ inch long. Pods glabrous, 6-18-seedcd. 



Lexs, Grenier and Godron. 



Staminal tube oblique at the mouth. Style filifonn. Ovules usually 2. Erect herbs. 



*L. EscuLENTA, Mocnch. Cultivated in Chittagong. 



iErvuni lens, L. 



Lentils. 



The flour of this pulse (the Masur ka drd of India) is considered rather heating 

 if liberally consumed. It is believed to be the basis of the popular Eevalenta Arahica. 

 Ernim lens is by a slight change written ervalenta, which is then easily converted 

 into Revalenta. It is strange that the sale of a really commendable article seems 

 to be increased and stimulated by some paltry trick in advertising or by some 

 audaciously unreal placard to catch the vulgar eye ! I well remember years ago 

 being stnick with the ingenuity of the manufactur(!rs of some bug-powder or other, 

 who, being by the nature of the article precluded from declaring it to be patronized 

 by the Queen and other members of the Koyal Family, fell back on the next best 

 recommendation to an idiotic public, that it was highly iu vogue with Her Majesty's 

 Army in Abyssinia! j\jid so it is, in Trade as in Religion, " Populus vult decipi. 

 Decipiatiir." 



Lathtkus, Linnaus. 



Staminal tube truncate at the moutli. Style flat, or dilated at the apex. Pods 

 more or less compressed. Erect herbs. 



*L. SAirvus, L. Cultivated in Chittagong. 



Kcsari-dal, or Kasur in India. Tira in Bengal. 



The seed is grey-coloured, with minute black specks, and surrounded by a thin 

 black line. This ' dal ' is considered indigestible, and Dr. Thomson attributed to its 



