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XXX. LE G-UMIN 0 SiE 
with the persistent style-base ; seeds 2-6, separated by parti- 
tions. 
Basantpur, Sutlej valley; April. —Throughout India, ascending to 4000 ft. 
The tuberous roots are eaten and used medicinally. They are also given as 
fodder to the ponies in Simla. 
32. PHASEOLUS. The Greek name of the Kidney-bean, P. 
vulgaris. — Warm regions of both Hemispheres ; widely cultivated. 
Herbs ; stems slender, trailing, twining or eject. Leaves of 
3 leaflets ; leaflets nearly equal, usually lobed, margins entire, 
lateral nearly sessile, terminal one long-stalked. Flowers yellow, 
in short, head-like, axillary racemes. Calyx bell-shaped ; teeth 5, 
the 2 upper more or less united, lowest tooth the longest. Petals 
much longer than the calyx : standard orbicular, spreading ; keel 
narrow, long, obtuse, twisted in a complete spire. Upper stamen 
free, others united. Style spirally twisted, bearded below the 
obliquely placed stigma. Pod cylindric or flat ; seeds 6-12, 
separated by pith-like partitions. 
The following species are cultivated throughout India:— the ‘ Mung,’ 
P. Mungo ; the ‘ Moth,’ P. aconitifolius ; the Urd or Mash, P. radiatus ; 
the Scarlet-runner, P. multiflorus ; the Kidney-bean, P. vulgaris. All may 
be recognised by the spirally twisted keel and bearded style. 
Leaflets oblong. Flowers hardly J in. long. Pod cylindric 1. P. trilobus. 
Leaflets broadly ovate. Flowers J in. long. Pod flat . . 2. P. calcaratus. 
*1. Phaseolus trilobus, Ait. ; Fl.Br. hid. ii. 201. Stems trail- 
ing or twining, 1-2 ft., hairy. Leaflets nearly glabrous, oblong, 
1-2 in., more or less deeply 3-lobed. Flowers pale yellow, hardly 
\ in. long. Pod glabrous, cylindric, 1-2 in., curved ; seeds 6-12. 
Himalaya to Ceylon and Burmah, ascending to 7000 ft. in the N.W.P. ; 
August. — W. and tropical Asia, Africa. 
On a sheet of this species in the Kew Herbarium has been written by Mr. 
Bentham, ‘ Simla to Almora, 4000-7000 ft., Madden.’ This is probably the 
authority for the distribution given in the FI. Br. Ind. I have seen no Simla 
specimen. 
2. Phaseolus calcaratus, Boxb . ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 203. * Stems 
trailing or twining, 1-3 ft., hairy. Leaflets nearly glabrous, 
broadly ovate, acute, 1^-3 in., sometimes lobed. Flowers yellow, 
\ in. long. Pod glabrous, flat, 2-3 in., straight or curved ; seeds 
8 - 12 . 
Valleys below Simla ; August.— Throughout India, wild and cultivated. 
Native name Mung. 
33. VIGNA. In honour of Domenic Yigna, a professor at 
Padua in the seventeenth century. — Tropical and subtropical 
regions, Cape of Good Hope, Australia. 
