Abrus.) LEGUMINOS.E. 369 
“Standard, wings, and keel white ; seeds rounded, green or pale straw- 
coloured ; point of attachment of stipules pale green [p. 368]...... sativum, 
418. Pisum anvense Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 181; E. D. P. 882. 
Cultivated, especially in the northern and eastern parts. 
An annual herb. Vernac. Matar. The Field-pea. 
419, Pisum sartvum Linn. : PE. 1h. Bel te ee ie ee ee 
D. 'P. 885. 
Cultivated, especially in the western parts. 
Anannual herb. Beng. Cabuli-matdr. The Pea. 
221. Abrus Linn, 
Shrubs or undershrubs, with twining stems; leaves even-pinnate ; 
many-paired, subdecid ; rachis ending i imple point ; 
stipules subscarious, striate, lanceolate, deciduous; stipels minute, 
blunt, persistent, rigid. Flowers small, distinctly pedicelled, 
tcemosely fascicled on the nodes of terminal peduncles or on 
almost leafless, short, axillary branches ; bracts small, ovate, acute, 
deciduous; bracteoles under the calyx 2, lanceolate, deciduous. 
Sepals 5, connate in a subtruncate tube, the teeth short, the upper 
2 subeonnate. Petals exserted; standard ovate narrowed to a 
short claw slightly adnate to the staminal tube; wings falcate, 
oblong, Spreading, free, shorter than the curved keel. Stamens 9, 
connate in a sheath split along the top, the vexillary filament 
absent ; free portions of filaments alternately longer and shorter ; 
anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, several- or many-ovuled; style 
short, ineurved, not bearded ; stigma terminal capitate. Fruit an 
oblong or linear pod, considerably or much compressed. Seeds glo- 
bose or compressed ; testa smooth, shining; hilum shortly oblong. 
Pods twice to thrice as long as broad, fairly thick, somewhat corrugated ; 
Seeds rounded i 
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precatorius. - 
Pods four to five times as long as broad, thin, smooth ; seeds compressed. 
pulchellus. 
420. Aprus PRECATORIUS Linn.; F. I. iii. 257; F. B. Lit. 175; 
B.D. A. 51. 
Tn all the provinces. . 
A slender climber. Hind. Gaunchi, rati, chirmiti; 
Beng. Kunch, chun-hati; Santal. Kawet. 
421. Aprus putcuELus Wall.; F. B. I. ii. 175. 
N. Bengal ; E. Bengal; Tippera; Chittagong. 
A. slender climber. 
