s 



stock in Florida, where commercial hulled seed is wholly pro- 

 duced (Piper). Recommended by Kew m 1896 for cultivation in 

 Australia, South Africa and the cooler parts of India, 



Desmodium triflorum, DC, is a plant cosmopolitan in the 



Tropics, fed to cattle in India. 



Lespedeza striata, Hook. $ Am.; Japan Glover. 

 Annual, 4- to 30 in. Japan, Manchuria, Corea, China. 

 S. United States. In California it has spread over thousands 

 )i acres (Index Fl. Sinensis, i, p. 182). An excellent pasture 

 plant and in situations favourable to full growth it may be cut 

 for hay. " Spread in the United States from S. New Jersey 

 westward nearly to central Kansas and south to the Gulf of 



Mexico," but " it is only in the lower Mississippi valley that it 



grows large enough to cut for hay, elsewhere being valuable 

 only for pasturage " (Piper), 



Cicer arietinum, Linn. ; Chick Pea, Brown Gram or Black 

 Crram, Bengal Gram, Horse Gram, Egyptian Pea, Idaho Pea, 

 Garbanzo (Mexico, Spain). 



Annual, 1 to 2 ft. India, Syria, Turkey, Spain, Bulgaria, 

 Africa, Mexico, &c. The plant is grown chiefly for the produc- 

 tion of seed, used for human food, considered one of the most 

 nutritious of the pulses ; the seeds are also good feed for horses, 

 cattle, sheep, and poultry. The haulm is not suitable for fodder 

 as the leaves contain an acid (oxalic chiefly) which in excess 



poisono 



made ironi 



be 



months old, especially when they have intestinal 



me 



oms Returns of Imi: 



of 

 \ A considerable 



quantity of the Mexican produce is exported to the United States 



Mexico 



m 



Trade Journ. May 18th, 1911, p. 361); the exports from 

 Damascus go chiefly to Italy, France and Egypt (I.e. p. 360). 

 from Beirut District, Turkey, to Egypt, Italy, United Kingdom 

 and Malta (I.e. May 25th, 1911, p. 429), and large exports ar< 

 also made by Morocco (I.e. June 1st. 1011, p. 478). 



la. ix. 2 (1911), pp. 207-208. 



Vicia Faba, Linn.; Field Bean, Broad Bean. 



Annual, 2 to 4 ft. China (1447017). Russia (75151), Germany 

 (55384), British India (48295), New Zealand (17785), Netherlands 

 (11401), Italy, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, 

 United States, Canada, Mexico, &c, are the Countries from 

 whence imported, and in the same year (1913) the United King- 

 dom produced 3,040,989 centals. The Broad or Windsor Bean in 

 various varieties is well known os a vegetable and the " Field " 



or " 



Horse" Bean fvar. equina), including the cultivated forms 

 \ s Heligoland," "Tick/ 1 cf Eed," " Mazagan," « Cluster," Ac. 

 is grown for feeding horses and cows. 



2. Nov, 1910, "The Cultivation of Field Beans," pp. 631-636. 



& Xo. 268. 1913, ibid., pp. 1-5. 



