Vicia.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEiE (baker). 173 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



Agrees with the European var. Bobartii in habit, differing only in the small pale 

 corolla. The typical V. sativa is much cultivated in Abyssinia, under the name of 

 Ententeratt. 



V. Faba, L., the common bean, is cultivated in Abyssinia under the name of 

 Aterbari. 



2. V. paucifolia, Baker. An erect glabrous annual about a foot 

 high, with slender acutely tetragonous stems. Stipules 3-4 lines 

 long, both blade and spur linear. Leaves subsessile, with two 

 pairs of linear leaflets 12-18 lines long, 1-1 J lines broad, and a simple 

 twining tendril. Flowers 1-3 on a peduncle 9-12 lines lono- ? secund. 

 Pedicels 1J-2 lines long, glabrous. Calyx 2 lines deep, glabrous, the 

 linear-setaceous teeth reaching halfway down. Corolla J in. deep, 

 pale lilac. Pod linear, an inch long, £ in. broad, shortly stipitate, gla- * 

 brous, 6-9- seeded. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper/ 



Closely allied to the South American V. graminea, Smith ( V. bidentata), Hook. 



3. V. hirsuta, Koch Syn. 191. Stems annual, slender, trailing, 

 pubescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, with one or more setaceous teeth. 

 Leaflets in 8-10 pairs, linear. Flowers 3-6 in a stalked dense raceme. 

 Calyx \ in. deep, the teeth linear. Style slightly compressed. Pod 4 

 lines long by half as broad, hairy, 2-seeded. — Ervwn hirsutum, Linn. Sp. 

 1039. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 197. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



E. Lens is cultivated in Abyssinia under the name of Messer and Bersem, and also 

 in Nubia. 



49. LATHYRUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 526. 



Calyx-tube oblique, the upper teeth shorter. Standard orbicular, 

 shortly unguiculate ; keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens monadelphous or 

 diadelphous, the mouth of the sheath not oblique. Ovary sessile (rarely 

 stipitate) multiovulate ; style inflexed, flattened vertically upwards, 

 bearded on the inner face. Pod compressed or sub terete, two-valved, 

 continuous within, many-seeded. — Herbs with the petiole in all our 

 species extending into a clasping tendril. 



A large genus, with a geographical range like that of Vicia. 



Perennial; stems not winged ; flowers in racemes 1. L. pratensh. 



An erect annual, with wingless stems 2. L. sphcericus. 



Diffuse annuals, with winged stems. 



Pod oblong, narrowly winged down each side of the upper suture 3. L. aativus. 



Pod linear, not winged 4. L. anmiun. 



1. L. pratensis, L.; DC. Prod. ii. 370. A diffuse perennial, the stems 

 slender, wingless. Leaves with a single pair of lanceolate leaflets. 

 Flowers middle-sized, bright yellow, 4—12 together in long-stalked 

 axillary racemes. Pod linear, an inch or more long, 3 lines thick, finally 

 black.— A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 199. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! 



Ranges throughout Europe to the north-west of India. 



