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SOt BEANS IN BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORISSA. 



It is interesting to note that the American varieties and 

 those obtained from Darjeeling district were full of impurities, 

 whereas all the samples of seed (pure for seed characters) 

 collected in the plains have been found to be pure for vegetative 

 characters also. It may be that crossing occurs more frequently 

 in the more temperate climate of /Vmerica and the Darjeeling 

 Himalayas. 



Se. — Pods. 



No marked differences have been noticed in the shape or 

 size of the pods of the varieties cultivated at Sabour. The 

 differences in the colour of the pubescence have been noted 

 above. The colour of the pods differs from the usual yellow 

 colour in some cases. The Barmeli type resembles the American 

 varieties Mammoth and Hollybrook in having whitish pods, and 

 the Riceland variety differs from Barchet in having darker 

 brown pods. The pods appear to shatter less easily in the 

 twining types (I — IV) than in the upright varieties. From 

 (me to three pods are usually produced by each inflorescence, 

 though this number is often increased to seven in the case of the 

 Barmeli type. The pods never contain more than from one to 

 three seeds in the types examined. 



