Jjatfiyrus.] l. leguminosj:. (J. G. Baker.) 181 



Mimg. t. 243. O. orientalis, Boiss. Biag. ix. 106. 0. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 5948. 

 0. aureus; Stev. ; Botes. Fl. Orient, ii. 621. 



West Himalayas, tropical and temperate zone, ascending from the salt range in 

 the Punjab to SSOO ft. in Ktjmagn and 10,000 ft. in Khaoan. — Disteib. Europe, 

 Orient, Altai, Songaria. 



Stems suherect, glabrous-, 2-3 ft. high. Stipules large, leafy ; leaflets memhranous, 

 acute, 2-4 in. long. Eacemes 6-1 2-flow6red, equalling or exceeding the leaves. Calt/x 

 |-i in. ; lower teeth lanceolate, upper deltoid. Corolla bright yellow, twice the fialyx. 

 Pod linear, beaked, 2-3 in. long. 



The genus Pistim is principally distinguished from Latht/rus by its thick laterally 

 compressed style. The two subspecies of the common cultivated Pea are both often 

 cultivated in the northern pro^'inees; P. sATmrM, Linn. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 321 ; 

 WuU. Cat. 5950, with round seeds of uniform colour and 4-6 leaflets ; and P. aetensb, 

 Lirm., with compressed marbled seeds and 2-4 leaflets. Eoyle considers the latter a 

 true native. 



55. A.BXFKICARPS:A, EUiott. 



Wide-twining herbs, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves and persistent striated 

 stipules and bracts. Flowers with a strong tendency to dimorphism, those that 

 bear the fully developed pods being, as in Viola, vrithout petals. Calyx-tube 

 long, eq^ual, teeth distinct, unequal. Corolla much 'exserted ; petals equal in 

 length; standard and wings with a distinct spur on each side of the claw. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary obscurely stalked, many-oyided ; 

 style filiform, inflexed, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod flat, linear-oblong. — 

 DiSTKlB. Species 3, or 3 varieties of one, from the United States, Japan, and 

 Himalayas, one in each country. 



1. A. Edgeworthii, -Bent/j. P/. Jwngh.iS].. 



West Himaiatas, temperate zone ; Simla, 5-6000 ft., Edgeworth, Thomson. 



Stems very slender, thinly shortly pubescent. Stipules and bracts oblong or lan- 

 ceolate, subobtuse or subacute, J in. long; leaflets membranous, obscurely hairy ; end 

 one broad ovate acute, side ones oblique. Flowers usually solitary or in pairs, but 

 casually racemed ; pedicels very short. CaU/x ^ in, ; teeth lanceolate-subulate, much 

 shorter than the tube. Corolla | in., reddish. Perfect pod 1 in. long, linear, re- 

 curved, 2-3-seeded. Very near the Japanese species {Slmteria trisperma, Miq. Ann. 

 Mus.Lug. Bat. iii. 51) and the well-known American A. monoica, both of which have 

 obovate bracts and copiously racemed flowers. 



56. SKVTERXA, W. & A. 



Olimbers, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves, persistent bracts and bracteoles, 

 and middle-sized racemose uniform flowers. Calyx-tuhe gibbous ; teeth distinct, 

 .shorter than the tube. Corolla exserted ; exauriculate standard rather exceed- 

 ing the keel and distinctly spurred wings. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers_ uni- 

 form. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style iacurved, filiform, beardless, stigma 

 -capitate. Pod flat, linear, recurved.— Disteib. One additional species, Trop. 

 .African. 



1. S. vestita, W. Sf A. Prodr. 2Qf7 ; stems densely hairy, racemes dense 

 sessile many-flowered, bracts and bracteoles conspicuous lanceolate, leaflets obo- 

 vate-oblong or roundish obtuse. Bemth. PI. Jwngh. 232 ; Wight le. 1. 165 ; Dah. 

 8[ Oihs. Bomb. Fl. 68. Glycine vestita, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 6512. G. mvo- 

 iucrata, Wall. Cat. 5506 A, ex parte. 



East Himai-atas ;.Khasia, Sikxim, Bhotan and Mishmi, ascending to 5000 ft. 

 Hills of Westeen Pbminsula and Cbylon, ascending to 7000 ft. 



