IN THE TROPICS. 
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characters, the seeds of the same plant were all nearly alike—the 
size intermediate, the shape nearly that of Telegraph. 
Table I. 
Date of 
Sowing. 
Number.* 
j Height (Inches). 
Number of Nodes. 
! Average Length of an 
Internode (Inches). 
02 
<D 
| Width of an Average 
Pod (mm.). 
? Number of Seeds. 
F’. 
j Number of Branch 
; 
Number of Pods. 
Yellow. 
d 
<D 
2 
O 
’S 
n 
19 - 12-02 
181.1 
58 
28 
21 
10 
23 
10 
5 
8 
180.1 
58 
28 
2*1 
— 
5 
— 
15 
14 
1 
— 
304.1 
59 
29 
2-1 
— 
5 
— 
1 15 
7 
8 
— 
.2 
46 
25 
1*8 
— 
2 
— 
7 
4 
3 
— 
2 - 5-03 
371.1 
88 
31 
1*8 
2 
4 
16 
! 7 
w 
2 
—. 
.2 
84 
27 
3-1 
— 
6 
17 
17 
11 
6 
— 
.3 
89 
29 
3'1 
— 
6 
15 
11 
30 
1 
— 
.4 
91 
32 
2-8 
2 
15 
17 
27 
20 
7 
. 5 
95 
32 
3-0 
1 
7 
17 
19 
14 
5 
— 
372 1 
88 
35 
2*5 
2 
10 
16 
21 
15 
6 
— ' 
.2 
85 
34 
2*5 
2 
1 
16 
3 
2 
1 
.3 
99 
35 
2*8 
' — 
10 
18 
i 32 
24 
8 
— 
435.1 
87 
26 
3*3 
— 
6 
16 
14 
11 
3 
-jppH 
.2 
90 
29 
3-1 
1 
8 
17 
23 
20 
3 
— 
.3 
95 
31 
31 
1 
10 
16 
26 
21 
5 
— . 
.4 
100 
32 
3-1 
1 
5 
19 
i 18 
13 
5 
— 
.5 
80 
27 
3*0 
1 
8 
17 
1 22 
17 
5 
— 
436.1 
76 
24 
3-2 
— 
6 
15 
14 
10 
4 
— 
.2 
86 
32 
2-7 
— 
5 
.17 
14 
10 
4 
— 
.3 
98 
33 
3-0 
— 
5 
18 
9 
6 
3 
— 
459.1 
80 
31 
2*6 
— 
2 
15 
3 
2 
1 
— 
.2 
85 
31 
2*7 
— 
3 
16 
6 
6 
— 
— 
* The numbers which are prefixed to the different hybrids and their progeny 
require a word of explanation. The crosses of all kinds made at Peradeniya 
were numbered consequtively ; the plants arising from each seed of a cross¬ 
bred pod then received a distinguishing number, when these were more than 
one ; and in the next generation a further number was added to distinguish 
the different offspring of each of these plants. Thus 371.1, 2, 3, &c., are 
plants arising from different seeds of the same cross-bred pod. 
The greater length of the internodes of the plants which developed 
from seeds sown on May 2nd is partly due to the fact that the plants 
