IN THE TROPICS. 
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6-—Native Pea No. 2 crossed with Satisfaction. 
A .—Description of Parents. 
1. Satisfaction, as obtained from Messrs. Sutton, is described on 
the package as being 3 feet in average height. 4 4 Habit robust 
and endures drought well. Pods straight and broad and closely- 
filled with very large peas.” 
The original sample consisted of very large seeds with yellow 
cotyledons, much wrinkled. The testas were slightly greenish or 
yellowish and not very transparent. 
As grown at Peradeniya the plants were always of a very uniform 
height, the extreme range of variation being from about 3 feet 
6 inches to about 5 feet. Average 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm.). The 
average number of nodes was 31 ; the average length of an internode 
being therefore 1 ■ 74 in. (44 mm.). The average width of a pod was 
22 mm. 
The seeds were large and thoroughly wrinkled, the starch grains 
being of the type characteristic of wrinkled seeds. Their colour was 
the rather pale shade of yellow which appears to be often associated 
with the wrinkled character.* The testas were white, usually 
without any trace of pigment, and a little less opaque than those of 
the original sample. 
Seeds gathered from my own plants and ripened in February 
germinated without exception when sown the following April, and 
scarcely any plants were lost. The variety, in fact, stood the climate 
of Peradeniya better at all times of year, and gave a better crop than 
any other English kind which was examined. 
2. Native pea No. 2.—The average height was less than three feet, 
but differed a good deal at different seasons. Average number of 
nodes 24 and average length of an internode about ljin. (3*8 cm.). 
Width of pod on the average 10 mm. Main stem thin ; often 
with 3-5 branches at the base, which attain an equal height. Flowers 
less than half the size of those of Satisfaction ; the standard pinkish- 
red in colour, the wings purple and changing from a reddish to a 
bluish purple as the flowers get older. Seeds very small, quite 
* Cf. the account of Telephone crosses above ; also Hurst, in Jo.urn. Roy. 
Hort. Soc., 1904. 
