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STUDIES IN THE POLLINATION ON INDIAN CROPS 



2. A parent plant with orange flowers (the back of the standard having 

 red lines and a diffused red colour) gave rise the next year to 47 plants with 

 yellow or orange flowers, differing however as regards the markings on the 

 back of the standard as follows :- — 



Plants 

 Uniformly deep red . . . . • . 24 



Orange without red lines . . . . . . 4 



Reddish orange without red lines . . . . 12 



Yellow orange with red lines . . . . 7 



3. A parent plant with yellow flowers (the back of the standard yellow 

 with very faint red lines) gave rise the next year to 52 plants as follows :■ — 



(a) Flowers orange, the back of the standard with 



red linf s and diffused red colour . . 1 plant. 



(6) Flowers yellow, the back of the standard 



without or with very faint red lines . . 25 plants. 



(c) Flowers yellow, the" back of the standard with 

 many red lines but without any diffused red 

 colour . . . . . . . . 26 plants. 



The pods may be green or variously marked with red or black, the black 

 markings being sometimes present to such an extent that the pod appears to 

 be entirely black. The following three cases illustrate the splitting which 

 occurs in the colour and markings of the pcds : — 



The most important seed characters are those of the seed coat. The 

 ground colour may be white, grey, brown, reddish brown, purple, smoky or 

 black. In genera], there are, in addition to this ground colour, brown, black, 

 violet or red spots or patches. When the ground colour is white or grey, two 

 coloured spots occur one on either side of the hilum. In many cases, the 



