﻿38 SEEDS AND PLAXTS IMPORTED. 



43492 to 43543— Continued. 



ordinary dry crop and used extensively as cattle fodder. The cluster 

 bean is specially suitable as a green-manure or green-fodder crop, owing 

 to tbe amount of nitrogen it contains and its comparative freedom (when 

 young) from fiber. (Adapted from Watt, Commercial Products of India, 

 p. U9.) 

 43504. Dolichos bielorus L. Horse gram. 



'• The interest in this pulse is mainly as an article of cattle food, the 

 green stems and leaves being a valued fodder. The split peas may be 

 reduced to meal, or boiled, or fried and eaten with rice or other articles 

 of diet." (Watt, Commercial Products' of India, pp. 506-507.) 



The work cited above should be referred to for a more complete dis- 

 cussion of the uses of this plant. 

 43505 to 43517. Dolichos lablab L. Bonavist bean. 



" It [the bonavist bean] is grown all over India, more or less, as a green 

 vegetable (corresponding very largely with French beans and, as a ripe 

 pulse, with the broad bean) and also as a fodder crop." (Watt, Com- 

 mercial Products of India, p. 510.) 



43505. "Variety 1, subvariety (a), race 1, subrace." 



43506. "Variety 1, subvariety (a), race 1. subrace." 



43507. "Variety 1, subvariety (a), race 2." 



43508. "Variety 1, subvariety (a), race 3."' 



43509. "Variety 1, subvariety (b), race 1. subrace." 



43510. "Variety 1, subvariety (b), race 1, subrace." 



43511. "Variety 1, subvariety (c), race 1, subrace." 



43512. "Variety 2, race 1, subrace." 



43513. "Variety 2, race 1, subrace." 



43514. "Variety 3, subvariety (a), race 1, subrace." 



43515. "Variety 3, subvariety (a), race 2." 



43516. "Variety 3, subvariety (b), race 1." 



43517. "Variety 3, subvariety (a), race 1, subrace." 



43518. Lathyrus sativus L. Bitter vetch. 

 " This vetch is cultivated throughout India as a cold-weather crop 



and has the reputation for germinating on land too dry for other rabi 

 crops. It is cultivated chiefly as a fodder, but as it is cheap and easily 

 grown it is considerably used as a food by the poorer classes, principally 

 in the form of bread, dil, or porridge." (Watt, Commercial Products of 

 India, p. ?U£.) 



43519. Lentilla lens (L.) W. F. Wight. Lentil. 

 (Lens esculenta Moench.) 



" The seeds are used chiefly for soups and stews. They are about as 

 palatable as split peas and rank amongst the most nutritious of vege- 

 tables." (Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 4, P- 1839.) 



43520. Phaseolus aureus Roxb. Mung bean. 

 "Variety 2, subvariety (a)." 



An erect or suberect, rather hairy much-branched plant cultivated 

 throughout the southern half of Asia. The seeds are used almost exclu- 

 sively for human food, and the straw is fed to cattle. 



