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DOLICHOS SINENSIS. CHINESE DoLICHOS. 



Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Vexilli basis callis 2, parallelis, oblongis, alas subtus com- 

 primentibus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dolichos sinensis; volubilis, leguminibus pendulis cylindricis 

 torulosis, pedunculis erectis multifloris. Amoen. Acad. 

 4. p. 326. Sp. PL 1018. Willd. 3. p. 1038. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 292. Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 3. p. 39. 



t.n. 



Dolichos sinensis. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 375. t. 134. 



Descr. Stem voluble, roundish, striate, smooth. Stipules 

 ovate acuminate, lengthened at the base beyond the point of 

 insertion, which gives the appearance of their being spurred. 

 Leaves ternate : leaflets rhomb-shaped, smooth on both sides, 

 veined. Petioles If long, smooth : partial petioles short, pu- 

 bescent. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the petioles, but 

 by being often continued beyond the head of flowers these 

 become sessile. Legume linear, sigmoid about 5 inches long, 

 marked with the impression of the seeds. Seeds when ripe 

 of a red purple, about twenty, separated by membranaceous 

 septa. 



Drawing and specimen of the plant communicated by the 

 Reverend and Honourable William Herbert of Spofforth ; 

 who raised it from seeds received from the Cape of Good-Hope 

 under the name of the Caffre Bean. He received seeds of the 

 same likewise from Mr. Burchall, who informed him that the 

 plant was cultivated by the Caffres : it is however undoubtedly 

 the same species as the specimen of Dolichos sinensis in the 



Banksian 



