144 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
ScarLeT Runner.* Blossoms scarlet. Pods 4-5 in. long. 
Seed with nearly solid black area on each side of the hilum, 
other portion variegated with black and scarlet. — Plate 43, 
f. 21. 
Best or Auu.f Identical with the preceding except that 
the pods are 6-8 in. long. — Plate 43, f. 22. 
Parntep Lapy.{ Differs from Scarlet Runner only in the 
blossoms being scarlet and white, and the seeds solid 
brown onsides of hilum, and yellow, variegated with brown, 
on other portions. — Plate 43, f. 22 and 24. 
DOLICHOS LABLAB L. 
Lablab vulgaris DC. Prodr. 2: 401. (1825). — Nicholson, Gard. Dict. 
Dolichos Lablab Bailey, Cyclop. Am. Hort. 1: 499. (1900). 
Plant herbaceous, annual, climbing 10-15 ft. or more, 
branchy. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets broadly ovate, cus- 
pidate pointed, the larger ones often broader than long, 
3-5 in. long, somewhat wrinkled. Blossoms white or pur- 
plish, quite large, in long erect racemes, 2-4 at nodes, 
* Browne, Rept. U. S. Pat. Off. 338. (1854). — [Wing], Rept. N. Y. 
Exp. Sta. 12115. (1882).— Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 71. (1885). — 
Haricot d’ Espagne rouge. Vilmorin-And. Pl. Pot. 276. (1883).— Stangen- 
bohne, arabische rothblithende. Haage & Sch. Haupt-Verz. (1870). 
Phaseolus coccineus Linn. Sp. Pl. 724. (1753). 
Phaseolus vulgaris coccineus Linn. Sp. Pl. 1016. [2 ed.]. (1763). 
Phaseolus multiflorus Linn. Sp. 8: 1030 [ed. Willd. ]. (1800). 
Phaseolus multiflorus coccineus Martens, Gartenbohnen 83. (1860).— DC. 
Prodr. 23392. (1825). 
Phaseolus Indicus, flore coccinec seu puniceo. Morison, Hist. Oxon. 
1:69. (1630). 
Phaseolus flore coccineo. Raius, Hist. Pl. 884, (1686). 
Phaseolus puniceo flore. Tournef. Inst. 414. (1719). 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum, seeds, No. 10562, ‘ Frijoles Pilayas 
de Colorado,’’ Santa Maria de Jesus, Guatemala. 
+ Veitch, Cat. (1897). 
t Painted Lady, Bicolor, or York and Lancaster Runner. Vilmorin-And, 
Veg. Gard. 71. (1885). — Haricot d’ Espagne bicolore. Vilmorin-And, Pl. 
Pot. 277. (1883). 
Phaseolus multiflorus bicolor Martens, Gartenbohnen 84. (1860). 
