1897.] D. Piain — Some additional Leguminosse. 423 



has no flowers. The American plant quoted by Linnaeus under P. Max is, according 

 to Savi, a distinct species P. Hernandezii ; the Cadelium of Rumphius (Herb. Amboin. 

 v. t. 140) also quoted, is obviously a form of Glycine hispida Maxim., the Soy or Soja. 



lib. Phaseolus Mungo Linn. 



Of this there are two fairly distinct forms : — 



1. Vera; stems hirsute, scandent or subscandent, seeds black. P. Mungo 

 Linn. Mantiss. 101. P. Wightii W. fy A. Prodr. 245 ; Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 8r T. P. 

 Wightianus Grah. Wall. Cat. 5591. The Tikari ; perhaps hardly varietally distinct 

 from the next. 



2. Boxburghii ; stems hirsute, diffusely spread but not scandent, seeds grey. 

 P. radiatus Boxb. Flor. Ind. iii. 296 not of Linn. P. Roxburghii W. 8f A. Prodr. 246. 

 V Udidi " Bheede Hort. Malab. viii. 50. The Vrd or Mdsh-Kulai ; a very important 

 Indian crop, totally different from, and much more important than, the Mung crop. 



Phaseolus subvolubilis Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5605, refered in the F. B. I. to the 

 first form, is at Calcutta P. calcaratus Roxb. P. setulosus Dalz, referred in the 

 F. B. I. to the second, has pods and seeds like those of P. trinervius, of which the- 

 writer treats it as a variety. 



12. Phaseolus sublobatus Boxb. Hort. Beng. 54; Flor. Ind. iii. 

 288. 



In a monograph of the genus Phaseolus the writer would feel inclined to reduce 

 this (but as a sub-species, not as a mere variety) to P. Mungo in the wide sense 

 which would make P. Mungo include both the Mung and the Mdsh-Kulai under one 

 name. In this plant we probably see the wild stock whence both cultivated plants 

 were originally derived. Here there are three fairly distinct forms, though the two 

 first are very close to each other and can only be separated by the colour of their 

 tomentum ; their pods and seeds are identical, as are their flowers. In the Flora of 

 British India the two are referred to different species. 



1. Var. typica; flowers small, tomentum on stems and pods reddish. P. sub- 

 lobatus Boxb. P. trinervius He'yne in Wall. Cat. 5603 ; Bale, in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 203. 

 Vigna brachycarpa Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, 185. 



Behar westward to the Concan ; thence south to Ceylon : Arracan. 



2. Var. setulosa ; flowers small, tomentum on stems and pods grey. P. setu- 

 losus Dalz. in Kew. Journ. ii. 33. 



Concan and Western Deccan only. 



3. Var. grandiflora ; flowers large, tomentum on stems and pods reddish. P. 

 trinervius Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 2. 249 hardly of Heyne. This may 

 prove to be more than varietally distinct, the septa between the seeds being deci- 

 dedly narrower than in the two preceding varieties. 



Burma ; Pegu, Kurz, 1725 ! Martaban, Falconer 620 ! Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



Dr. Roxburgh's name for this species has been omitted from the Flora of British 

 India ; regarding the plant Roxburgh intends, which is the Gora-mung, dispute is 

 impossible, both on account of the native name and from Roxburgh's figure. In 

 the Index Keivensis Roxburgh's P. sublobatus is given as=P. trilobus, an impossible 

 identification for which the writer has failed to trace any bibliographic authority. 



126. Phaseolus Ricciardianus Ten. Ind. Sem. Hort. Neap. (1833) 

 4 ; stems flexuose clothed with fine deciduous spreading hairs, stipules 

 large lanceolate, leaflets entire or faintly lobed, racemes usually branched, 



