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 Dolichos Lablab. Black-Seeded 



DOL1CHOS. 



Oafs and Order, 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Charafler. 



Vexilli bafis callis 2, parallels, oblongis, alas fubtus com- 

 primentibus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



DOLICHOS Lablab ; volubilis, leguminibus ovato-acinaci- 

 formibus, feminibus ovatis hilo arcuaio verfus 

 alteram extremitatem. Sp. PL 1019. Reichard 

 941. Willi. 3. p. 1037. Roy. Lugdb. 368. Hort. 

 Up/. 214. Hajfelquijl. 483. Eng. Edit. 252. 

 Mart. Mill Dicl. 2. Hort. Kezv. 3. p. 31. Gcert. 

 Frucl. 2. p. 322. f. 150. 



PHASEOLUS peregrinus 14 Leblab. €//// H//?. 2. />. 227. 



PHASEOLUS asgpytius nigro femine. Bauh. Pin. 341. /?<wV 

 H//?. 888. 



PHASEOLUS. fto. fttr. t. 29./. 4. 



PHASEOLUS niger Lablab. Alp. Mgypt. 74. t. 75. £ #/. 

 y%-/>/. 27. ? 



Although always confidered as a native of Egypt, Hassel- 

 o,ui st affures us, that this plant is only cultivated there, and was 

 molt probably introduced from Europe, as it is called bv the in- 

 habitants the European Bean. Is cultivated for the table in 

 feveral warm countries, in the fame manner as the kidney,-bcan 

 is with us ; indeed Phafeolus and Dolichos are very nearly 

 allied. Is ufually confidered as a ftove plant, but is marked 

 by Mr. Donn as a hardy annual. 



Alpinus defcribes his Lablab as a climbing evergreen 

 tree, as large as a vine, enduring a hundred years or more, 

 and in frequent ufe in the gardens of Egypt for making fhady 

 bowers. Surely this muft render it very doubtful if his plant 

 be the fame as ours ; more efpecially as he defcribes the pods 

 as being long. 



Flowers from July to September. Said in the Hortus KeW- 

 enlis to have been cultivated by the Duchels of Beaufort, 

 in 1714. Communicated by Mr. Gjbbs, Seedfman, Piccadilly. 



