Phaseolus. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 198 
H.B.K.  P. Cumingii, subtortus, and brevipes, Benth. in Ann. Mus. Vind. 
ii, 1359. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Banks of the 
onny, Mann! Seashore at Brass, Barter! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Binder (flowers orange). Banks of the White Nile (teste 
Schweinfurth). 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Webwitsch! 
Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 
3. P. vulgaris, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 392. Stems annual, wide- 
climbing, subglabrous. Leaflets three; the central one broad-ovate, 
4-5 in. long, acute, both sides subglabrous. Peduncles in pairs, 1-2 
in. long, 2-3-flowered. Pedicels 2-4 lines; bracteoles ovate. Calyx 
campanulate, } in. deep, upper lip truncate, lower 3-toothed. Corolla 
white or lilac, an inch deep. Pod 4-5 in. long, 3 in. broad, nearly 
straight, compressed, glabrous, 10—12-seeded—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
i, 213. 
The commonly cultivated species, not clearly known anywhere in a native state. 
4. P. Mungo, Linn.; DOC. Prod. ii. 394, Stems a foot high, an- 
nual, suberect, clothed with deciduous spreading long yellowish hairs. 
Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 lines deep, attached below the centre. 
Petioles 2-4 in, long; leaflets 3, central one broad-ovate, 3—4 in. long, 
lateral ones unequal-sided, both sides subscabrous. Flowers 4-6 to- 
gether on short axillary peduncles, with bracts like the stipules. Brac- 
teoles linear, hairy, twice as long as the calyx, which is campanulate, 
4 in. deep, the teeth very short, subdeltoid, or the lowest lanceolate. 
Corolla yellowish, under half an inch deep. Pod linear, straight, terete, 
1}-2 in. long, 2-24 lines broad, clothed with spreading tawny hairs, 
10-15-seeded. 
Nile Land., Throughout the Nile region, but perhaps cultivated only, Kotschy ! 
Speke and Grant! &c. 
Commonly cultivated in Tropical Asia. 
5. P. trinervius, Heyne ; Wight et Arn. Prod. 245. Stems annual or 
biennial, slender, climbing, clothed with deflexed grey or tawny hairs. 
Stipules ovate, striated, 4-6 lines deep, attached below the middle. 
Petioles 2-6 in. long, slender, hairy; leaflets 3, central broad-ovate 
or ovate-rhomboidal, 3-5 in. long, acute, lateral ones unequal-sided, 
upper surface glabrous, lower hairy on the veins. Flowers 3—6 close 
together on long or short slender flexuous peduncles. Bracts like the 
Stipules. Pedicels very short, with a pair of ciliated lanceolate brac- 
teoles at the apex, which exceed the calyx. Calyx campanulate, 2 lines 
deep, teeth deltoid, reaching a third down, two upper ones oo 
orolla rose-red, three or four times the calyx. Pod terete, 2-8 in. 
long, 2-21 lines thick, silky, nearly straight, 10—12-seeded.—P. opiso- 
trichus, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1718. Vigna opisotricha, A. 
Rich. F). Abyss. i. 220. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! : : g 
Also a plant of Natal, the Comoro islands, and Tropical Asia. Very near the pre- 
ceding, of which it is perhaps only the wild form. 
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