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varieties, Barchet, Duggar, Haberlandt, Hollybrook, Mammoth, 

 Fekin, Pingshu. Another attempt was made to cultivate at 

 Sabour the varieties grown in the Sikkim Himalayas, and plots 

 of the Nepali, Barmeli, black seed, greenish yellow seed and 

 chocolate seed varieties were obtained from Mr. Goodwin, 

 Superintendent of the Kalimpong Homes Farm, and grown 

 successfully at Sabour. Arrangements were also made with the 

 Deputy Director of Agriculture for testing the yield of the 

 Bengal types on the Department's farms. As a result of the 

 work of these three years we have come to the conclusions, 

 which are detailed in the following sections. 



As regards the method of cultivation adopted, the land 

 is levelled and prepared for sowing during the hot weather, and 

 the seed sown as soon as convenient after the break of the 

 monsoon. When the land is ready the drills are prepared four 

 feet apart by means of the Planet Junior Hoe with plough 

 share attachment. The seed is then sown by hand and the 

 drills covered in with rakes. After cultivation consists in occa- 

 sional hoeings with a Planet Junior Hoe (with plough share 

 attachment), which slightly ridges up the plants and prevents 

 water-logging. The plants are eventually thinned out to one 

 foot apart in the rows. The rows have always been eighty-six 

 yards long, and some four or five plots are usually sown in 

 each row. 



This work was carried out in the official years 1909-10 to 

 1911-12, previous to the repartition of Bengal in April 1912. 



2.-NOMENOLATURE. 



It is not the intention of this paper to discuss in detail the 

 nomenclature of the Soy Bean, as that would not be possible 

 without an exhaustive examination of the type specimens in 

 European collections of Herbarium material. It will be sufficient 

 to refer to some points of interest in the more important pub- 

 lished descriptions of Indian Soy Beans which are available here. 

 DeCandolle (1) describes Soya hispida Moench as an erect hispid 

 herb. Roxburgh's (2) description of Dolichos soja Willd is taken 



