PHA8BOLU8.] LEGUM.IN08M. 223 



4> R bracteata, Bo.nth. ex Bah. in Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 225; Brain in 

 Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. LXVI, 436. 



Branches usually twining, woody, clothed with short persistent canescent 

 not glandular pubescence. Stipules minnte, caducous ; leaflets 2-4 in. 

 long and hroad, roundish or rhomhoidal, with cuspidate apex, sub- 

 coriaceons, green and thickly downy aboye, densely grey downy beneath, 

 exstipellate. Racemes distinctly peduncled and much exceeding the 

 leaves ; pec7ice/s shorter thp.n the calyx. Calyx i-\ in., densely, downy ; 

 lower tooth linear, exceeding the tube but shorter than the corolla. 

 Corolla \ in. ; standard canescent outside. Pod 1-1 § in. long, turgid, 

 2-seeded, narrow in the lower half, miautely downy. 



Near Benares (Madden), Gorakhpar forests (Duthie's collector). Dis- 

 TBIB. Chanda dist. in 0. Provs. and in Burma. 



14. PHASEOLUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 200. 



Twiners, usually herbaceous, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves. 

 Flowe/s ia copious axillary racemes ; h^acts generally small and 

 deciduous ; hracteoles usually conspicuous and persistent. Calyx 

 campanulate ; the lowest tooth usually longer than the rest, and the 

 two uppermost subconnate. Qurolla much exserted, the keel pro- 

 longed into a very long beak and forming a more or less complete 

 spiral. Stamens 2-ad Iphous, anthers uniform. Ovarii sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, twisted round with the keel, conspicuously 

 bearded down the side below the very oblique stigma. Pod linear, 

 rarely oblong, sub terete or subcompressed, more or less distinctly 

 septate between the seeds.-— Species 60 or more, mostly tropical, and 

 many of them widely cultivated. 



The following account of the species, as represented within the area pf 

 this flora, has been prepared in accordance with the views of Dr. Prain, 

 who in his vaiuable Nutes on the Leguminosae, published in Vol LXVI 

 of the Journ. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, has helped very materially 

 towards a better under.st.uiding of this diflS.cult genus. The transposi- 

 tion of the name 'P. Mungo' for urd, and that of 'P radiatus' for mung, 

 may appear to the unhotanical reader as an obvious step in the direction 

 of rendering confusion more comfounded, yet the laws of botanical 

 nomenclature necessitate the adoption of the names given to these 

 two plants by Linnaeus, who unfortunately applied the name ' Mungo > 

 to a variety of itrd. 



Stipules small, basifixed ; pod compressed. 

 Pod broad and scimitar-shaped, 2-4- 

 seeded 1. P. lunatus. 



Pod linear straight, 4-6-seeded . . 2. P. vulgaris. 



