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a. Seed subglobose or slightly elongated or flattened; pods subterete. 
* Seed small, white, usually less than @ in. long. 
Ricr.* Plant climbing 4-6 ft., rather weak growing. 
Leaflets large, 2-21 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, thin, smooth. 
Blossoms white. Pods light green, subterete, 2-3 in. 
long, 1 in. thick, often slightly curved ; spur short, curved. 
Seed dingy white with yellowish tinge, quite variable in 
size and shape, 1-5, in. long, nearly as broad, slightly 
flattened, rounded or a little truncate at the ends. Late 
and moderately productive, with tender pods. — Plate 38, 
f.: 44, 
Dwarr Ricr.t Plant bushy, 10-12 in. high, producing 
few runners a foot long. Seed slightly larger than the 
preceding, otherwise identical. — Plate 38, f. 12. 
Prepome.} Plant climbing 3-4 ft., moderately vigor- 
ous. Stem slender, much branched. Leaflets small, 2-2} 
in. long, 13-1% in. broad, thin, considerably wrinkled. 
Blossoms white. Pods green, slightly flattened, 23-3} in. 
long, + in. broad, nearly straight, spur short, nearly 
straight. Seed white, ,%—% in. long, }- in. wide, 
slightly flattened, subtruncate. Early, productive and 
tender. — Plate 38, f. 13. 
* Round White Rice. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 40. (1885).— Haricot 
riz &@ rames. Vilmorin-And. Pl. Pot. 247. (1883). — Stangenbohne, Reis 
Perl. Haage & Sch. Haupt-Verz. (1876). 
Phaseolus gonospermus oryzoides Martens, Gartenbohnen 48. [¢. 5. f. 7]. 
(1860). 
+ Dwarf White Rice. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 51. (1885). — Haricot 
Comtesse de Chambord. Vilmorin-And. Pl. Pot. 259. (1883).— Busch- 
bohne, Reis Perl. Haage & Sch. Haupt-Verz. (1880). 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum, seeds belonging to this or the pre- 
ceding variety, No. 5057, ‘‘ Frijoles blancos,”’ Zacatecoleuca, Salvador ; 
10452, Tenancingo, State of Mexico, Mexico. 
t+ Gard. Chron. 23236. (1842).— Predhomme. Burr, Field & Gard. 
Veg. 486. (1863).— White Prédome. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 54. 
(1885). — Haricot Prédome. Vilmorin-And. Pl. Pot. 262. (1883). 
