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LEGUMINOSiE. CLXXXVIII. Phaseolus. 



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shorter than the leaves ; legume straight, torose, mucronate, when 

 in an immature state it is spotted with blood colour ; seeds 

 ovate, turgid, variegated. 0. '^. H. Native country unknown. 

 Flowers pale violet. Legume 4-5 inches long. Called the Cape 

 hidney-hean by gardeners. 



Bloody -fruited Kidney-bean. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. ? PI. tw. 



28 P. sPHiE*Ricus (Savi, mem. 3. p. 20. f. 17.) plant tall, 

 twining, smoothish ; leaflets ovate, acuminated ; racemes shorter 

 than the leaves ; legumes straightish, torose, mucronate ; seeds 

 roundish. 0. '^. S. Native country unknown, 

 violet. Legume 4-5 inches long. 



Flowers pale . 

 Seeds red, brown, flesh- 

 coloured, or violaceous, zonate, with an areola round the mar- 

 gin. To this species belong the garden kidney-heans called revolute and greenish. Seeds ovate, pale, variegated with red. 



The plant is cultivated in Cochin-china for the sake of the seeds, 



S5 P. adena'nthus (Meyer, prim, esseq. 239.) plant twin- 

 ing, glabrous ; leaflets ovate, acuminately cuspidate, middle one 

 lanceolate-oblong ; racemes rather longer than the leaves ; pe- 

 dicels twin, rising from the base of glands ; bracteoles ovate- 

 roundish ; legumes incurved, with scabrous margins. O,*^, S, 

 Native of Guiana, in shady humid places. Flowers large, white 

 painted with blue. 



Gland-Jlorvered Kidney-bean. 



36 P. TuNKiNE'Nsis(Lour. coch. 435.) plant twining, branched, 

 glabrous ; leaflets small, thick ; racemes axillary ; legume some- 

 what lunate, compressed, smooth, pendulous, 3-seeded. 0. '^. H. 

 Native of Cochin-china. Flowers white, but the vexillum is 



PL tw. 



Haricot ^ ^ , 



>S))Aen'ca /-seeded Kidney-bean. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. ? PI. tw. 



29 P. gonospe'rmis (Savi, mem. 3. p. 21. f. 19.) plant tall, 

 twining, smoothish ; leaflets ovate, acuminated ; racemes shorter 

 than the leaves ; legumes torulose, nearly straight, mucronate ; 

 seeds compressed, irregularly angled. 0. ^. H. Native coun- 

 try unknown. Flowers white or very pale violet. Legume 3-4 

 inches long, sometimes spotted with red. Seeds small, white, 

 flesh-coloured, or chestnut-coloured. 



Angular-seeded Kidney-bean. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. ? PI. tw. 



80 P. dera'sus (Schranck,hort. mon. 1. t. 89.) plant twining, 

 ^smoothish ; leaflets ovate, acuminated ; peduncles 2-4-flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracteoles small ; vexillum concave, 



which are dressed and eaten by the inhabitants. 

 Tunquin Kidney-bean. Fl. June, July. PI. tw, 

 37 P. macroca'rpus (Poir. suppl. 3. p. 6.) plant twining, 

 smoothish ; leaflets ovate-roundish, or acuminated ; peduncles 

 axillary, short, few-flowered ; legume very long, glabrous, end- 

 ing in a hooked mucrone. ©. '^. H. Native country unknown. 

 Flowers and seeds white. 



Long-fruited Kidney-bean. 

 38 P. 



PI. tw. 



roundish, shorter than the wings ; legumes linear-oblong, ©. 

 H. Native of Brazil. Corolla greenish white. Seeds black, 



JFu'scus (Wall. pi. asiat. rar. 1. p. 6. t. 6.) plant 

 annual, clothed with hoary pubescence and pili, twining, much 

 branched ; root fibrous ; branches filiform, furrowed ; leaflets 

 ovate, acute, entire ; racemes pedunculate, shorter than tne 

 leaves ; flowers lurid on the outside ; calyx beset with resinoui 

 dots, 4-toothed, lower tooth elongated; keel a litde beaked, 

 incurved; legume hairy, flat, linear. ©. '^. S. Nativeofthe 

 Fl. June, Aug. Burman Empire, at Prome. Flowers crowded ; the vexillum 



with a white hylum. 



Scraped-off or Black 

 Clt. 1819. PI. tw. 



31 P. luna'tus (Lin. spec. lOlG.) plant twining, smoothish ; ish, with brown lines. Keel and wings yellow. 

 leaflets ovate, acuminated ; racemes pedunculate, shorter than ^roww-flowered Kidney-bean. PI. tw. 



dark brown beneath and shining, but opaque above and yellow 



the petioles ; pedicels twin ; bracteas small, adpressed ; vexillum 

 concave, roundish ; legume acinaciform, rather lunate, smooth, 



2-4-seeded. ©. 



S. 



Native of Bengal. 



Houtt, pfl. syst. 



8. t. 63. P. riifus, Jacq. hort. vind. 1. t. 34. P. lun^tus, of 

 Lour, probably distinct from the plant of Linnaeus. Flowers 

 small, white. Seeds dark purple, streaked with white, large. 

 The seeds are cooked and eaten in Cochin-china as well as in the 

 East Indies, but the plant is grown more for the beauty of the 

 seeds than for their flavour. 



I 5. Heferaj^hylli (from Irepoc, heieros, and (jivWoVf phyllon, 

 a leaf; in reference to the variable shape of the leaflets, some 

 being lobed and others entire). Leaflets all or some of then 

 lohed. 



39 P- microspe'rmus (Ort. dec. 130.) stem erect, angular, 

 and is as well as the leaves glabrous ; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, 

 3-lobed; peduncles axillary, very long, racemose; bracteoles 



- ■ le^rumes linear, coin- 



Flowers of » 



subulate ; wings of corolla orbicular -, 



Zwna/e-podded Kidney-bean. Fl.Ju. Jul. Clt. 1779. Pl.tw. pressed, pendulous. ©. S. Native of Cuba. 



32 P. iNAMCE^NUs (Lin. hort. cliff*. 359.) plant twining, gla- 

 brous ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, much taper-pointed ; racemes 



pedunculate, shorter than the leaves; pedicels twin or tern; _. _. ^ ^,,. 



vexillum concave, shorter than the wings; legume acinaciform, leaflets rhomboid-ovate,^Taterar*one7'^ 2-Tobed on 



acuminated. ©. ^. H. Native of Africa. - - - - - o . - . i-.^ 



t. 66. 



M 



dirty purple colour. Seeds grey, lined with black. ^ 



Small-seeded Kidney-bean. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1825. Fl.n«; 



40 P. gibbosif6lius (Ort. dec. 25.) plant twining, hairy^ 



tflets rhomboid-ovate, lateral ones gibbously 2-lobea 



Jacq. hort. vind. the outer side ; peduncles 3 times the length of the leaver 



hnf nnt nf Pni'r flowers twin, disposed in something like a spike J^^^^^^^^-^. 



coloured ; legume linear, dependent, incurved. O- '^^ ^* y 

 tive of Cuba. Corolla vermilion-coloured. Seeds sniaU, ouv 



Flowers with a greenish vexillum and whitish wings. Seeds 

 compressed, variegated with white and blood-red or scarlet. 



Unpleasing Kidney-hean. FL July, Aug. Clt. 1794. Pl.tw. coloured, and variegated. 



33 P. XuARESii (Zucc. cent. no. 81. A.) plant twining, pu- Gihhous-leaflelted Kidney-bean. PL tw. 



bescent ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, ending each in a long taper ' "^ 



point, lateral ones dependent ; racemes pedunculate, shorter 

 than the leaves ; wings of corolla elongated ; legume acinaci- 

 form ; seeds compressed. ©. '^. H. 



Kuntb, 



Nearly allied to P. inamoenus. 



Native country unknown. 



41 P. heterophy'llus (Willd. enum. 753. H. B. et f^^^ 

 nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 446.) plant twining; branches ^^^ -^ 

 retrograde pili ; leaflets hispid beneath and on the "^j^^^ 

 middle one oblong and repand, lateral ones ovate-oblong, ^^ ^ 

 one lobe each above the base; peduncles longer *^^",T^^ 



^«arr5. Kidney-bean. FL June, Aug. Clt. 1818. PL tw. tioles ; flowers somewhat spicate ; bracteoles small; l^bfj?* 



34 P. ryBE RULUS (H. B et Kunth, nov. gen. amer 6. p. calyx 5, acute, nearly equal legumes linear-falcate. O- •"' 



4ol.) plant twmmg; branches and leaves pubescent; leaflets Native of Mexico, near Valladolid. Flowers small, red- ^ 



Various-leaved K\Aney-he^n. FL JuL Aug. Clt. 1820. i^l- ' 

 42 P.vESTiTUs (Hook. bot. misc. ^^ V^ ^^^^V^^'V^^ 

 and clothed with dense pubescence ; leaflets rhomboid, ^ ^ 

 lateral ones somewhat lobed ; racemes twice the leng'J ^ 

 leaves ; teeth of calyx broad-subulate, nearly equal ; H 



peduncl 

 than the leaves ; 

 O. O. S. 



raccas. 



legumes lanceol ^ ^ -«„.^^»^. 



Native of South America, at Rio Guayre, near Ca- 

 Flowers bluish white. Seeds chestnut-colnnrr^rl 



Puberulous Kidney-bean. PL tw. 



