142 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Veitcn’s Ciimpine.* Plant climbing 3-4 feet, with few 
runners. Leaflets light green, 23-24% in. long, 14-2 in. 
broad, a little rough, scarcely wrinkled. Blossoms white 
tinged with pink. Pods green, 4—7 in. long, }—} in. broad, 
curved, considerably flattened; spur stout, nearly straight, 
tin. long. Seed identical with Canadian Wonder, except 
smaller in size, and more nearly cylindrical.—Plate 43, 
€.-15. 
Rep FiaGEeouet.t Identical with Canadian Wonder ex- 
cept that the pods are yellow. | 
tt Seed variegated. 
IMPROVED FLAGEOLET.} Identical with the preceding 
except that the beans are a bright red and splashed with a 
yellowish red. — Plate 43, f. 15. 
P. MULTIFLORUS Willd. 
Phaseolus multiflorus DC. Prodr. 2392. (1825). — Bailey, Cyclop. Am. 
Hort. 83 1294. (1901). 
Phaseolus vulgaris multiflorus Nicholson, Gard. Dict. 
Plant twining, 10-15 ft. high, minutely pubescent, in warm 
countries perennial with thick tuberous rootstalks, with us 
annual and with branchy roots; stem slender. Leaflets 
broadly ovate or obliquely ovate, acuminate, inclining to 
triangular, 3-4 in. long, 23-3} in. broad, quite smooth. 
Blossoms showy, in racemes longer than leaves, white, 
scarlet, or variegated in different garden varieties. Pods 
green, oblong, cylindric, varying very much in length, 
straight or little curved, scabrous, tipped with short stout 
spur. Seed large, 4-14 in. long, $-} in broad, 4-3 in. 
* Veitch, Cat. (1897). 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum, seeds, No. 10905, State of Santa 
Fé, Argentina. 
+ [Wing], Rept. N. Y. Exp. Sta. 13112. (1882).— Flageolet Wax. 
Thorburn, Cat. (1883). 
t Buschbohne, Flageolet Wachs verbesserte. Haage & Sch. Haupt- 
Verz. (1897). 
