Order 42. Legmninosce. 89 



sided, flowers in long stiff racemes of a delicate lilac, the wings 

 deep blue, pod 3 to 6-seeded, much contracted between the 

 seeds. Vingorla. 



Caranjah, etc., pretty common (D.). 



32. PHASEOLUS. 



1. P. trilo'buS) straggling, leaflets ovate, usually 3-lobed, 

 flowers small, yellow, in long-stalked racemes or heads, pod 6 to 

 12-seeded. Arkmath, jangli math. 



Common all over India (H.). It varies greatly as to hairiness. 



2. P. trinervius. Twining, hairy, leaflets ovate acute, some- 

 times slightly lobed, flowers yellow in cylindrical long- stalked 

 heads, pod horizontal, about 12-seeded. Matki, mukni, 

 mungir. 



Common. Closely allied to P. mungo (H.). 



*P. grandis, bristly in most parts, leaves and stipnles very large. 

 *P. pauciflorus, slender, climbing, leaflets ovate, flowers small, 2 or 3 

 together at the top of a slender stalk. These two, known only to 

 Dalzell and Stocks, were found in the highest Ghauts and the S. 

 Konkan respectively. 



The following are cultivated P. vulgaris, French bean ; P. mungo, 

 urid, mung wild in many parts. H. includes in this D.'s P. setulosus, 

 and has 3 vars. P. restrains, halaonda, halaola. P. acontifolius, 

 math. 



P. coccineus is the scarlet runner. 



33. VlGNA. 



V. vexillata (Phaseolus sepiarius, D.). Twining with broad 

 ovate acute leaflets, lateral ones unequal-sided, flowers largish, 

 pink, few together at the end of a very long stalk, pod 3 or 4 

 inches long, many-seeded, hairy. Birambol, halula. 



The handsome flowers of this plant, which is pretty common in the 

 Konkan and found at Mahableshwar (cosmopolitan in the tropics, I?.), 

 remind one strongly of the sweet pea, but without its delicacy or 

 fragrance. 



V. cattiang (Dolichos sinensis, D.) with flowers very like the last, is 

 the cultivated chaoli, also called safed or hariya lobeh. 



34. CLITORIA. 



C. ternatea. A beautiful climber, leaflets 5 to 7, ovate, flowers 

 solitary, deep blue and white, with long bracts, pod straight 

 and thin. Bhovera, Kdjali, GoTcarni. 



