43. PAPILIONACHJS. [14. PHASEOirs. 



H. Phaseolns, L. (Frencli and Kidney Bean). 



Twining or sub-erect herbs with stipellate leaflets, small 

 or mod.-sized flowers on the tumid nodes of axillary racemes. 

 Corolla much longer than the campannlate calyx, charac- 

 terized by the keel being long and spirally twisted, and en- 

 closing the filiform style. Stigma very oblique. Pod 

 usually linear, more or les3 septate. 



1. P. calcaratuSj Roxb, Sutri, S., R. 



A slender twiner with that part of the stem bearing the 

 racemes often leafless, stems and petioles with reflexed 

 brown hairs. Small yellow flowers in very short of ten long- 

 peduncled racemes. Pod If by £", puberulous. 



Wild (or an escape) in Sal forests in Singbhnm {e.g., between Nakti 

 and Tebu), Santal P., Wood (wild or oult.?). Fls. Aug.-Sept. Ft. Sept.- 

 Oct. 



Lflts. softly hairy both sides, broad-ovate or rhomboid acuminate, or 

 upper narrow-oblong, usually more or less lobed, base straight or obtuse, 

 larger 4 by 3". Stipules oblong £", base produced rounded. Peduncles 

 2-4". Racemes i" elongating to 1". Fl&. §* broad. Br act coles setaceous. 

 Pod 9-12-seeded. 



2. P. aConitifoliuSj Jacq. Mung, K. ; Bir-moch (The 

 wild form) S. ; Moth, R. 



Procumbent with long spreading hairs. Easily recognised by* its 

 leaflets being deeply cut into 3-5 linear or linear-oblong segments H-3" 

 long, hairy. Stipules f" lanceolate acuminate, attached above the base. 

 Stipellse setaceous. Lower petioles 4-5''. Peduncles 3-3|". Racemes 

 3-6-fld. Bracts setaoeous -^". Calyx minute, tube T y, teeth 5 equal about 

 half as long. 8t. £" broad. Pods about 8-seeded. 



Wild in dry situations in Manbhum, Camp. ; Santal P., Wood, wild f 

 Often cultivated on a small scale in the other districts. 



3. P. trilobuS, Ait. Mugani, Beng, 



Very similar to the last but stems nearly glabrous, the central lobes 

 of the 3-lobed leaves spathulate instead of liaear-oblong and stipules 

 oblong. Said to be wild in all the provinces of Bengal, Prain. 



4. P. sub lob at us, Roxb. Syn.P. trinervius, F.B.L Ghora mung, 

 Beng. 



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