128 SOY BEANS IN BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORlSSA. 



ascending. Stems, leaves and pods with tawny pubescence. 

 Flowers purple, 6 to 7 mm. long, sessile in short racemes. Pods 

 1*3 to 17 inches, 1-3 together. Seeds pale yellow, greenish 

 when immature, 4 to G'5 mm. long by 3 to 4*5 mm. broad, 

 elliptical, flattened. Hilum brown, brown colour extending out- 

 wards in a band round the hilum. Germ yellow. Seeds contained 

 54 to 5*9 per cent, nitrogen and 15*5 to 17*5 per cent. oil. 



This type and Type 4 are similar except in the colour and 

 composition of the seeds. Their habit is markedly different 

 from that of Type 1. The main stem is usually stout and 

 upright below, but its upper portion and the secondary branches 

 bend down towards the ground. Some of the branches of the 

 higher orders are more ascending. The length of the stem and 

 branches is similar to that of Type 1. In vigorous plants the 

 main stem is erect to a height of about 1 foot and then the 

 main stem droops over, the branches ascend for a few inches 

 and then also droop, their apices lying along the ground. In 

 thickly sown plots the plants grow up straight to a height 

 of about 18 inches and then the stem and two or three long 

 unbranched secondary branches droop down towards the ground. 

 The flowers are concealed beneath the leaves and are not so 

 readily noticeable as in the black types. The reclining stems 

 often root at the nodes. The leaves are flat and somewhat larger 

 than those of Type 1, well developed apical leaflet measuring 

 about 4 inches by 2 inches. The colour of the leaves is also 

 lio-hter green than in Type 1, but this character is only apparent 

 in the field. The whole plant is tawnily pubescent. The ripen- 

 ing plants when bare of leaves can be distinguished from Type I 

 by their brighter yellow colour. This type matures slightly 

 later than Type 1. In 19 LI the terminal inflorescences were 

 not produced until November 13, whereas Type I had com- 

 menced to produce terminal inflorescences on October 27. The 

 pods are ripe by about December 20. This type is usually 

 found growing mixed with Type 4 from which it cannot be 

 distinguished in the field. It was originally obtained from 

 Sankarpur dearh near Bhagalpur and has been grown at Sabour 



