368 BENGAL PLANTS. (Lathyrus, 
the others, which are united in a sheath with a straight meee 
anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile or stipitate, many- 
style dorsally flattened, bearded longitudinally on the inner side; 
stigma terminal, capitate. Fruit a subterete or compressed pod, 
continuous within, coniak. seeded. Seeds globose or pie rarely 
compressed ; hilum small or linear. 
Leaves reduced to tendrils; stipules large ovate, leaflike ; pir ee 
P 
Leaves pinnate, with 1-2 pairs of leaflets; stipules small Te 
flowers blue or sometimes white ........c.ccccc cee ccceee nen egnunanenetree® 
416, Larayrus Apuaca Linn.; F. I. iii, 822; F. B. 1 ib i 
A general, but not common, field-weed. 
LA are herb with leafy stipules. Beng. Jangli matt, 
417, Beets sativus Linn.; F. I. iii, 822; F. B. 1 it 1795 
E. D. L. 100. 
Generally cultivated. 
nannual herb. Vernac. Kesari, kassur. 
220, Pisum Linn. 
Herbs, diffuse or climbing; leaves even-pinnate; leaflets 51-3 sts 
rachis ending in a simple or branched tendril or a simple point 0. 
stipules foliaceous, semicordate or semisagittate, stipels : 
Flowers axillary peduncled, showy, solitary or in few-fid. racemes, 
bracts very small caducous, bracteoles 0. Sepals connate ae 
oblique tube sometimes gibbous behind; lobes 5, subequal nee 
2 upper wider. Petals much exserted; standard very b x 
narrowed to a short, wide claw; wings oblong faleate, adnate on 
their middle to the shorter ineurved obtuse keel. Stamens 10, 
sessile, many-ovuled; style inflexed, hard, ee with 
edges, compressed laterally towards the to there Wei ) 
tudinally bearded on the inner side. Fruit an slau pooh , 
compressed or subturgid “ied continuous within, several: : 
Seeds subglobose ; hilum ob: 
“Standard white or pale _ w and keel purp 
see Srey or purple, mottled ; nna of sachet of a a vol : 
wer 
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