1048 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXI. 



Herbs, ekect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Leaflets Many. 



Petals Dissimilar. 



Vicia sativa. small to medium size, annual, stems slender 



Vetch, or Tare. spreading or erect, rather downy ; leaves pinnate 



Leguminos-e. ending in twisted tendrils, stipules small, obliquely 



F. B. I. ii. 178. lanceolate, deeply toothed, leaflets 8-12, those of 



The Plains to 7,000 ft. upper leaves f-1 in. strap shaped, of lower shorter, 



broader, sometimes deeply notched at the apex ; 



flowers § in. or less, red-blue usually solitary, rarely 



in pairs, axillary, sessile, calyx f in., teeth 5, lan- 



ceolate-awlshaped, petals 5, twice the length of the 



calyx, style bearded below the stigma, pod 1-2 in., 



smooth, seeds 8-10 ; otherwise like the last species. 



A weed of cultivation, stated to be sometimes 



cultivated as a fodder plant. 



Vicia peregrina. 



Leguminos^e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual, slender, smooth, spreading, leaf- 

 lets 10-12, alternate or opposite, ^-1 in. long, 

 stipules minute, bifid with linear divisions ; flowers 

 ^ in. red purple solitary, on short axillary stalks, 

 calyx J in., teeth lanceolate, upper shorter curved 

 upwards ; pods 1-1^ in., linear-oblong, abruptly 

 turned down, smooth, rather curved, seeds 5-6 ; 

 otherwise like the last species. 



Vicia sepium. medium-size, perennial, finely downy ; leaflets 



LBGUMiNosiE. oblong, abruptly ended, stipules small, deeply 



F. B. I. ii. 179. toothed, flowers § in., reddish in 2-6 flowered, 



Kashmir. nearly sessile, one-sided, racemes only in the axils 



of upper leaves, calyx 5 in,, smooth or downy, teeth 



triangular with a sharp hard point, pod 1 in., 



oblique, smooth, beaked, seeds 6-10 ; otherwise 



like the last species. 



