424 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosee. [No. 2, 



bracteoles linear, flowers rather large, pods glabrous. Savi Mem. Ac. 

 Torin. xxxviii. 173 t. 3. 



Var. macrocarpa; pod large, flat. 



Naga Hills , Kohima, Watt. n. 7343 ! Chittagong ; Kodala, King's 

 Collector. 



Leaflets narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 in. long by 1 "5-2*5 in. wide; stipules '4 

 in. long, fixed a little below middle. Flowers yellow, "65 in. long, lower pedicels twice 

 as long as calyx, bracteoles shorter than calyx. Pods 5 in. long, *4 in. broad, distinctly 

 compressed, 8-10-seeded, seeds brown 25 in. long, 2 in. across, with prominent white 

 hilum set on one side towards lower end of seed. 



It is with some dubiety that this Phaseolus is here referred to P. Ricciardianus. 

 The stems, leaves and flowers agree well with those figured by Savi, and still better 

 with those of Japanese specimens named P. Ricciardianus by Mr. Maxiowicz. But 

 Savi (loc. cit.) describes the pod as terete and has figured a pod that is much smaller 

 than the oiie in this plant. Not impossibly this Naga and Lushai vegetable may yet 

 prove to be a distinct species. 



13. Phaseolus calcaratus Roxb. 



Very commonly cultivated and very variable. Besides the typical 

 form, the following varieties may be noted : — 



a. VAR. major; foliage and tomentum as in type but flowers 

 much larger. P. hirtus Wall. Cat. 5593 not of Retz. 



Khasia; Nunklow, Clarke n. 44819! Naga Hills ; Jotsoma Prain! 

 Burma ; cult, on the Salween, Wallich ! Shan Hills, King's Collector ! 

 This only differs from ordinary P. calcaratus by its larger flowers, and may be no 

 more than a form of the type. 



b. var. glabra; foliage and habit of var. major and of the type 

 but leaves and stems almost glabrous ; flowers as in var. major. P. 

 glaber Roxb. Hort. Beng. 55. 



Panjab ; at Pathankote, Clarice 21964! Sikkim and Bootan; not 

 uncommon. Silhet ; Gomez {Wall. Cat. 5549 G. and 5589 H.) Khasia ; 

 Clarke 14684 ! Q. Mann 38 ! 



Roxburgh describes the plant as not twining in the Calcutta garden ; it does, 

 however, twine when it has opportunity. The gatherings quoted will be found 

 to agree extremely well with the plant Roxburgh depicts. In any case his P. glaber 

 can by no possibility be a form of P. Mungo even in the widest sense ; its pods are 

 glabrous and, as if this were not sufficient, its seeds, as delineated by him, have not 

 the hilum of Mung or of Mdsh-Tcalai, but have the very different hilum and are quite 

 the shape of those of the Sutri which is P. calcaratus ; indeed, var. glabra is even 

 less easily separable from typical P. calcaratus than is var. major. Wall. Cat. 5549 

 G., at Calcutta (which ought to be Vigna Catjang Endl.) is this same plant ! 



c. Var. Rumbaiya ; stems short erect or diffuse. Phaseolus n. 40, 

 Kerb. Ind. Or. K. f. 8f T. P. Clarkeanus Brace M8S. in Herb. Calcutta. 



Khasia Hills. 



P. torosus Roxb. Flor. hid. in. 298 only differs from this in having 



