Excerpt from Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, Vol. 1: Studies in the Pollination of Indian Crops Flowering. The large conspicuous yellow flowers are borne on long ter minal racemes, the first blossoms appearing when the plants have attained their full height (plate I). The lowest flower of each inflorescence opens first and flowering proceeds regularly towards the growing point and is completed in the whole plant in about a month. The carina is very pointed, slightly twisted at the apex and closely. Shut. The stamens are diadelphous and unequal. The anthers of the shorter stamens are linear, of the longer ovate. Those buds which show slits in their calyces in the late afternoon with the yellow corolla showing through, open the following morning about 9 to 10 a.m. At which period the glands begin to secrete nectar freely. As a rule the flowers remain fully Open for two days, partially closing at nightfall. Comparatively few of the flowers set seed under Pusa conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.