130 SOY LEANS IN BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORISSA. 



Type 4a. 

 A somewhat similar impure variety has also been obtained 

 from Kalimpong. It has pale chocolate seeds and is listed by 

 Goodwin as variety 2. It differs from the Bengal Type 4 in 

 having seeds of lighter colour, comparatively few long twinino- 

 branches which lie along the ground, and in ripening considerably 

 earlier. The leaves in some plants were also narrower. The seeds 

 are also heavier than the local variety but have decreased in weight 

 under cultivation in the plains. It was grown at Sabour in 1911. 



Type 5. — " Barmeli Bhetmas." 



Stems short, stout, upright ; secondary branches upright 

 ascending close to stem. Stems, leaves and pods covered with 

 tawny pubescence. Flowers purple, 6 to 7 mm. long, peduncled 

 on longer racemes. Pods 1 to 7 together. Seeds bright yellow, 

 4"5 to 7'5 mm. long by 3'5 to 5*5 mm. broad, elliptical, flattened, 

 hilum only brown. Germ yellow. Seeds contained 5*33 per cent, 

 nitrogen and 1696 per cent, oil in 1911. (1 sample only.) 



This type is of erect habit, the stem usually consisting of 

 about 21 nodes and measuring up to 28 inches ; the lower branches 

 do not usually exceed 11 inches (8 nodes), but in particularly tall 

 and vigorous plants upright branches of length 31 inches have 

 been noted. The upper branches usually consist of one or two 

 nodes only; the branches ascend close to the main stem. The 

 leaves are large, an apical leaflet measuring 4 '8 by 2*7 — 5 inches 

 and are covered with longer and more upright hairs than in other 

 types. The plot sown at Sabour on July 12, 1911, was in flower 

 on September 24 and some plants were ripe on November 18, 

 though the bulk of the crop was harvested on December 9. The 

 flowers are produced in rather elongated racemes on which from 

 1 to 7 pods are produced. The rips pods are whitish and covered 

 with pale yellow hairs. The crop when dead ripe has a distinct 

 whitish appearance. The weight of seed per plant produced by 

 20 good average plants was at the rate of 42 grams per plant, 

 whereas that for 100 average plants was at the rate of 20 grams 

 per plant. The weight of 100 seeds was 8 - 25 grams when 



