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tubers are sometimes eaten. Tern. Hind. Tirra ; Tel. Dari, 

 Gnmodi. 



44. Phaseolus, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs, twining* or suberect, often prostrate. 

 Leaves pimiately 3-foliolate; stipules membranous, lanceolate, 

 basifixed or peltately attached ; stipules subulate. Flowers in 

 axillary racemes, fascicled 011 the rluichis; bracts and bracteoles- 

 often conspicuous, usually persistent. Calyx campanulate, the 

 lowest tooth the longest, the upper two connate or free. Corolla 

 exserted ; standard orbicular, subauriculate at base ; wings obovate, 

 adnate to the keel, often large ; keel petals prolonged into a 

 spiral beak. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 sessile, many-ovuled ; style enclosed in the beak of the keel and 

 twisted with it, conspicuously bearded down the side below the 

 oblique stigma. Pod linear or falcate, terete or compressed, 

 more or less septate between the seeds. Seeds smooth, the hilum 

 punctate or shortly linear ; strophiole 0. 



Stipules basifixed ; corolla red white or purple, not yellow ; leaflets 

 usually entire : 



Pods narrow, subcylindric, almost straight, many-seeded; flowers 



dull purplish- red I. semierectus. 



Pods broad, subcompressed, more or less recurved : 



Racemes dense ; flowers large, the standard cream-coloured, the 

 wings purple; pods linear, 10-15-seeded, 4-6 in. long, -4-'5 in. 



broad , 2. a.denanthus. 



Racemes lax : 

 Pods few-seeded : 



Flowers small, yellowish-green or dirty white ; pods broad 



and scimitar-shaped, 2-4-seeded lunatus. 



Flowers medium-sized : 



Racemes shorter than the leaves ; flowers lilac to white ; 



pod linear, smooth, '5 in. broad vulgaris. 



Racemes as long or longer than the leaves ; flowers scarlet 



or white; pod curved, scabrous, 1 in. broad multiflorus. 



Pods many-seeded, 3-4 in. long, 'l-'2 in. broad, bordered; 



flowers violet-purple, medium-sized 3. Groliamianus. 



Stipules peltately fixed ; corolla yellow : 

 Pods glabrous : 



Pods cyliiidric ; leaflets distinctly lobed : 



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