Phaseolus.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 203 



11. P. Bfungro, Linn. ; DC. Prodr.ii.395; steins suberect or flexuose 

 more or less densely clothed with loose deflexed hairs, stipules ovate, leaflets 

 membranous entire, rarely faintly lobed, racemes capitate, bracteoles ovate or 

 lanceolate, flowers middle-sized, pod clothed with long spreading deciduous 

 silkv hairs. Jloxb^ .FL Ind iii^^2LX&eeds green) ; Wall. Cat. 5589 (in greater 

 part) ; W. f A. A'oclr. 24*. P. Max, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 55 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 295 

 (seeds 'black): Wall. Cat. 5606. P.. aureus,. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5590 (seeds 

 yettoiv). P. hirtus, Retz. Obs. iii. 38, non Wall. 



Wild and universally cultivated in the plains throughout our limits in a large 

 number of forms, ascending to 6000 ft. in the N.W. Himalayas. DISTRIB. Spread 

 through tropics of Old World. 



Stems annual, suberect in the typical form, 1-2 ft. high, copiously branched from 

 the base, clothed with fine long deciduous brownish silky hairs. Stipules |-^ in. 

 long, attached near the base ; leaflets membranous, with scattered adpressed hairs on 

 both sides, 2-4 in. long, roundish, acute or subobtuse, deltoid or rather rounded at 

 the base. Flowers about half a dozen at the very end of short peduncles, clothed like 

 the stems ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^-^ in. ; lower tooth deltoid or lanceolate. 

 Corolla | in., yellow. Pod 1^-2^- in. long by ~ in., subcylindrical, slightly 

 recurved, 10-15-seeded. 



VAB. 1. glaber, Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 291 (sp.), non Schlecht. ; habit of the type, 

 but stem leaves and pod quite glabrous. Wall. Cat. 5604. P. Mungo, P., Wall. Cat. 

 5589, ex parte. P. glabrescens, Steud. Nomenc. edit. 2, ii. 317. A cultivated form. 



VAB. 2. Wightianus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5591 (sp.) ; stems elongated slender 

 flexuose finely hairy, the hairs short and grey, leaflets thinner. P. Wightii, W. $* A. 

 Prodr. 245. P. subvolubilis, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5605. 



VAB. 3. radiatus, Linn, (sp.) ; stems elongated twining densely clothed, as are the 

 peduncles and pod with long ferruginous deflexed silky hairs, leaflets firmer than in 

 the last, similar to those of the type. Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 296 ; Wall. Cat. 5592 ; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 395. P. Koxburghii, W. $ A. Prodr. 246. P. Mungo, Wall. Cat. 5589, ex 

 par!",. P. setulosus, Dalz. in Kew Journ. ii. 33 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 72. Vigna 

 opisotiicha, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 220. 



12. P. trinervius, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 5603 ; stems twining densely 

 clothed vritii detiexed ferruginous hairs, stipules middle-sized oblong, leaflets entire 

 or faintly lobed persistently pilose on both surfaces, racemes close, bracteoles 

 oblong-lanceolate, pod at first densely silky. W. $ A. Prodr. 245 ; Dalz. fy 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 71. P. farinosus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 395 ? 



Plains, of WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Malaya. ! 



Perennial. Stems copiously twining, never suberect. Stipules like those of P. 

 Mungo, but apparently attached higher up. Leaflets thicker in texture, often d : s- 

 tinctly lobed, ovate, acute, 2-4 in. long, dark green, scabrous, with adpressed grey 

 bristly hairs above, still more hairy beneath. Flowers 6-12, on long downy peduncles, 

 the raceme finally 1-2 in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ in. ; teeth deltoid. 

 Corolla 3-4 times the calyx, yellow or reddish. Pod 2-2^ in. long, 10-12-seeded, 

 slightly recurved, Closely allied to P. Mungo, var. radiatus, and probably a fourth 

 variety of that species. 



13. P. calcaratus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54; Fl. Ind. iii. 289; stems 

 suberect or flexuose clothed with fine deciduous deflexed hairs, stipules lanceo- 

 late; leaflets entire or faintly lobed, racemes not capitate, bracteoles linear, 

 flowers middle-sized, pod glabrous. Wall. Cat. 5611 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 245. 

 P. sublobatus, Wall. Cat. 5598 A, B. P. hirtus, Wall. Cat. 5593. P. Mungo, 

 Wall. Cat. 5589 0, ex parte. P. pubescens, Blume ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 200. 



HIMALAYAS to CEYLON, in the tropical zone, both wild and commonly cultivated, 

 ascending to 5000 ft. in KHASIA. DISTRIB. Malaya. 



