Lathy rus."] L. LEGUMINOS-B. (J. G. Baker.) 181 



Hung. t. 243. O. orientalis, Boiss. Diag. ix. 106. 0. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 5948. 

 O. aureus, Stev. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 621. 



West Himalayas, tropical and temperate zone, ascending from the salt range in 

 the PUNJAB to 8500 ft. in KTJMAOX and 10,000 ft. in KHAGAX. DISTBIB. Europe, 

 Orient, Altai, Songaria. 



Stems suberect, glabrous, 2-3 ft. high. Stipules large, leafy ; leaflets membranous, 

 acute, 2-4 in. long. Racemes 6-1 2-flowered, equalling or exceeding the leaves. Calyx 



in. ; lower teeth lanceolate, upper deltoid. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, 

 linear, beaked, 2-3 in. long. 



The genus PISTJM is principally distinguished from Latkyrus by its thick laterally 

 compressed style. The two subspecies of the common cultivated Pea are both often 

 cultivated in the northern provinces; P. SATIVTJM, Linn.; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 321 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 5950, with round seeds of uniform colour and 4-6 leaflets; and P. ARVEXSE, 

 Linn., with compressed marbled seeds and 2-4 leaflets. Koyle considers the latter a 

 true native. 



55. ATCFHXCARFJBA, Elliott. 



Wide-twining herbs, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves and persistent striated 

 stipules and bracts. Flowers with a strong tendency to dimorphism, those that 

 tear the fully developed pods being, as in Viola, without petals. Calyx-tube 

 long, equal, teeth distinct, unequal. Corolla much exserted; petals equal in 

 length ; standard and wings with a distinct spur on each side of the claw. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary obscurely stalked, niany-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, inflexed, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod flat, linear-oblong. 

 DISTKIB. Species 3, or 3 varieties of one, from the United States, Japan, and 

 Himalayas, one in each country. 



1. A. Edg-ewortliii, Benth. PI. Jungh. 231. 



WEST HIMALAYAS, temperate zone ; Simla, 5-6000 ft., Edgeworth, Thomson. 



Stems very slender, thinly shortly pubescent. Stipules and bracts oblong or lan- 

 ceolate, subobtuse or subacute, in. long ; leaflets membranous, obscurely hairy ; end 

 one broad ovate acute, side ones oblique. Flowers usually solitary or in pairs, but 

 casually racemed ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ in. ; teeth lanceolate-subulate, much 

 shorter than the tube. Corolla ^ in., reddish. Perfect pod 1 in. long, linear, re- 

 curved, 2-3-seeded. Very near the Japanese species (Shuteria trisperma, Miq. Ann. 

 Mus. Lug. Bat. iii. 51) and the well-known American A. monoica, both of which have 

 obovate bracts and copiously racemed flowers. 



56. SHUTERIA, W. & A. 



Climbers, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves, persistent bracts and bracteoles, 

 and niiddle-s&ed racemose uniform flowers. Calyx-tube gibbous ; teeth distinct, 

 shorter than the tube. Corolla exserted ; exauriculate standard rather exceed- 

 ing the keel and distinctly spurred wings. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uni- 

 form. Ovary subsessile, niany-ovuled ; style incurved, filiform, beardless, stigma 

 capitate. Pod flat, linear, recurved. DISTKIB. One additional species, Trop. 

 African. 



1. S. vestita, W. fy A. Prodr. 207; stems densely hairy, racemes dense 

 sessile many-flowered, bracts and bracteoles conspicuous lanceolate, leaflets obo- 

 vate-oblong or roundish obtuse. Benth. PL Jungh. 232 ; Wight Ic. 1. 165 ; Dalz. 

 fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 68. Glycine vestita, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5512. G. invo- 

 lucrata, Wall. Cat. 5506 A, 'ex parte. 



EAST HIMALAYAS ; KHASIA, SIKKIM, BHOTAN and MISHMI, ascending to 5000 ft. 

 Hills of WESTEKN PENINSULA and CEYLON, ascending to 7000 ft. 



