104 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
** Larger than the preceding. 
t+ Seed black. 
Inpian Curer.* Plant strong and vigorous, climbing 
3-4 ft. Leaflets 21-3 in. long, 2—23 in. broad, light green, 
often with purplish tinge, slightly wrinkled, rather thin. 
Blossoms purplish. Pods changing from green to yellow, 
3-47 in. long, 3-8 in. broad, nearly as thick, much curved; 
spur slender, curved, }in. long. Seed black, 15-7 in. long, 
3-15 in. broad, slightly or not at all flattened, oval to 
subglobose. First introduced into Europe from China 
about 1837 and into the United States about 1852. Mod- 
erately productive and medium early.— Plate 38, f. 18. 
Quren.t Differs from the preceding only in seeds which 
are slightly larger and more nearly globose.— Plate 38, 
f,:19. 
Buack Wax.t A dwarf form of Indian Chief. Plant 
8-10 in. high, strictly dwarf. Pods bright yellow. Seeds 
a little larger than the latter, otherwise identical. — Plate 
38, f. 20. 
* Browne, Rept. U. S. Pat. Off. 337. (1854). — Burr, Field & Gard. Veg. 
484. (1863).— [Wing], Rept. N. Y. Exp. Sta. 1:97. (1882).— Black 
Wax Pole. Thorburn, Cat. (1883).— Black Algerian. Vilmorin-And. 
Veg. Gard. 58. (1885). — Haricot @’ Alger noir. Vilmorin-And. Pl. Pot. 
266. (1883). — Stangenbohne, Wachs schwarze. Haage & Sch. Haupt- 
Verz. (1880). 
Phaseolus sphaericus niger Martens, Gartenbohnen 70. (1860). 
Field Columbian Museum, seeds, No. 15954, 16522: Philadelphia Com- 
mercial Museum, seeds, No. 10500, Tacubaya, Federal District, Mexico; 
10647, Vera Cruz, Mexico; 10648,  Frijol prieto,’”? Texmelucan, Puebla, 
Mexico; 10656, “ Frijol prieto,” Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico; 10914, 
Buenos Ayres, Argentina; 10983, Guatemala; 10984, Guatemala; 10985, 
Quezaltenango, Guatemala; 10986, Quezaltenango, Guatemala; 10989, 
Guatemala, 
+ Stangenbohne, Kinigin Wachs. Haage & Sch. Haupt-Verz. (1890). 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum, seeds, No. 10911, Buenos Ayres, 
Argentina. 
} Dwarf Black Wax, [Wing], Rept. N. Y. Exp. Sta. 13102. (1882), — 
Challenge Black Wax. Thorburn, Cat. (1895). 
