PAPILIONACE^. li^ 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, but not common to the immediate north. 

 (In the Bombay presidency rare, only found by Cooke and at Mableshwar 

 [C.B.F.J 



Ceylon, Himalayas from Simla to Khasia and eastwards to Java, also 

 in Madagascar and Natal. 



PHASEOLUS. F.B.I. 50 Lxxiii. 

 Bean. 

 Twining plants with pinnately three-foliate leaves 

 and axillary racemes of flowers characterised and dis- 

 tinguished by the keel being very long and coiled in a 

 spiral ; the style also long and conspicuously bearded 

 below the stigma ; and the pod long and narrow. 



Species about 60, some widely cultivated, e.g., the French, 

 Kidney and Haricot bean. 



Phaseolus trinervius Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 5603 ! ; F.B.I. 



ii 203, LXXIII 12; stem and leaves hairy. Stipules 



ovate acute, attached above their base. Leaves J^ to 



2^ inches, ovate, more or less lobed. Stalks of racemes 



3 to 6 inches ; flowering part i to ij^ inches. Corolla 



yellow or reddish. Pod at first very silky, 2 to 2j^ inches 



long, ten to twelve seeded, slightly curved. 



A native of lower levels but found near Kodaikanal. Fyson 

 433, 1 1 20. Bourne 2004. 



Gen. Dist. Plains of South India, Ceylon and Malaya. 



AT YLOSIA. F.B.I. 50 Lxxix. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining with pinnately three- 

 foliate leaves ; characterised by the flowers in pairs ; all 

 parts covered with small red resinous glands which 

 however are concealed under short hairs ; pods with 

 depressed lines between the seeds ; and the strophiole 

 (aril) of the seeds large and divided. 



Species about 20, India, Mauritius and to Australia. 



Named from the Greek a without and tylos, callosity.^ because the 

 standard is without the hard basal knobs possessed by so?fie genera. 



Shrub 2 feet A. candollei. 



Slender twiner running in grass A. rugosa. 



