Fici'a.] L. LEGUMINOSJJ. (J. G. Baker.) 179 



Plains of PUNJAB, Aitchison. DISTRIB. Europe, Orient. 



Staus slender, glabrous, diiFuse. Leaflets 10-12, alternate or opposite, ^1 in. long ; 

 stipules minute, bifid, with linear divisions. Flowers solitary, on short pedicels in the 

 axils of the leaves. Calyx in. ; teeth lanceolate, the upper shorter, curved upwards. 

 Corolla purplish-red, twice the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, deflexed, glabrescent, rather 

 recurved, 11^- in. long, 5 6-seeded. 



11. V. sepium, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 364 ; perennial, leaflets multijugate 

 oblong, racemes subsessile 2-6-flowered. Bow. Fl. Orient, ii. 568. 



KASHMIR, temperate region. DISTRIB. Europe, Orient, Siberia. 



Stems finely downy, suberect, 1-2 ft. Stipules small, deeply toothed ; leaflets 

 10-12, membranous, truncate, ^ 1 in. long. Racemes very close, secund, confined to 

 the axils of the uf>per leaves. Calyx % in., glabrous or downy ; teeth deltoid-cuspi- 

 date, much shorter than the tube. Corolla reddish, twice the calyx. Pod linear-ob- 

 long, oblique, rostrate, glabrous, 1 in. long, 6-10 -seeded. 



12. V. narbonensis, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 364; leaflets large of lowest 

 leaves 2 of upper 4-6 obovate, racemes subsessile 2-6-flowered. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 568. 



PUNJAB, near Peshawur, Vicary, perhaps introduced. DISTEIB. S. Europe, Orient, 

 probably the original of the cultivated Bean. 



A stout suberect annual, 1-1 foot high, glabrous or finely downy. (Stipules large, 

 deeply toothed ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, entire in our plant. Calyx f in. ; lower teeth 

 lanceolate, as long as tube ; upper deltoid. Corolla purple, more than twice the calyx. 

 Pod 1^-2 in. long, downy, 6-7-seeded. 



ERVUMLENS, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 5954 (Cicer Lens, Willd.; Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 324) 

 the common Lentil, and VICIA FABA, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 323 ; Wall. Cat. 5951, 

 the Bean, are commonly cultivated, especially in the North-West Provinces. 



VICIA BENGHALENSIS, Linn, seems to be the Mediterranean V. atropurpurca, Desf., 

 and to have no claim to be regarded as an Indian plant. 



54. XiATHYRUS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with equally pinnate leaves, ending in tendril or 

 bristle. Fl&ioers racemed or solitary. Calyx-tube campanulate, oblique ; teeth 

 long or upper short. Corolla more or less exserted ; standard broad ; keel shorter 

 than the wings. Stamens diadelphous, the mouth of the tube not oblique ; an- 

 thers uniform. Ovary subsessile or stalked, many-ovuled ; style flattened, 

 bearded on the inner side, stigma capitate. Pod terete or flattish, continuous 

 within. DISTRIB. Species described 170, spread principally through all the north 

 temperate zone. 



STJBGEX. 1. Eulathyrus. Petiole terminated by a long tendril. 



1. L. Aphaca, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 372 ; annual, leaflets abortive, 

 flowers 1-2 on a long peduncle. Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 322 ; Wall. Cat. 5952 ; 

 Benth. in Royle III. 200 ; BOMS. Fl. Orient, ii. 602. 



Spread through the northern provinces, ascending from the plains of BENGAL to the 

 temperate zone in HAZAKA, KASHMIR and KTJMAON. DISTRIB. Europe, Orient, Abyssinia. 



Stems slender, wingless, much branched. Stipules in pairs adpressed to the stem, 

 leaf-like, entire, truncate, hastate. Peduncle 2-3 times the stipule. Calyx 3- in. ; teeth 

 equal, lanceolate, exceeding the tube. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod linear- 

 oblong, wingless, 4-6-seeded. 



2. Zi. sativus, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 373 ; annual, stems winged, leaflets 



