600 
Plants of the Punjab. 
CLIMBING PLANTS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Phaseolus Junatus, 
Lima Bean, 
Lobya. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
F. B.1.1'. 200. 
The Plains. 
Cultivated. 
Phaseolus vulgaris, 
French or Kidney 
Bean, 
Bakla, loba, babri. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
F. B. I. ii. 200. 
The P’a‘ns to 
7,000 ft. 
Cultivated. 
Phaseolus Mungo, 
var. radiatus, 
Green Gram, 
Mung. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
FE. B. I. 1. 208, 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Phaseolus 
calearatus, 
Ghurush. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
F. B. I. u. 208, 
The Plains, 
7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Sim : 
Col ett). 
Brogh. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
biennial, stems twining, first minutely downy, then 
a'most smooth; leaves of 3 leaflets, leaflets nearly equal, 
usualy lobed, margins entire, latera! almost sessile, end 
one ‘ong-stalked, stipules small, basifixed : flowers small, 
greenish yellow, in loose short-sta ked, many-flowered 
racemes, 6 in. long, bracts small, soon falling off, bracteoles 
minute, calyx ;, m., teeth all very short, corolla hairy 
outside, keel very long forming a spiral beak, stamens 10, 
all united but the upper one, style much twisted, bearded 
down the side; pod 2-3 by 8-3 in., upper suture recurved, 
lower rounded, oblong, seeds 2-4. large, wh te or mottled. 
The young beans are cooked like French beans, when older 
they are shelled, the seeds alone are boiled and eaten. 
like the last species, but annual, flowers white, pink, 
or lilac, longer, racemes few-flowered, bracteoles persistent, 
ovate, pods 4-6 in., linear, straight. Cultivated for its 
green pods. 
like the last species, but more hairy, stipules ovate, 
leaflets rarely lobed, flowers yellow, crowded’ in a round 
raceme, pods much smaller, a little recurved, seeds green, 
yellow or black. Cultivated for its seeds which are eaten 
as dal. 
like the last species, but stipules 'anceolate, racemes 
not round, bracteoles linear, seeds red or cream colour. 
Cultivated both for ‘ood and fodder. 
