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borne all along the stems and branches. Pods green or 
purple in different varieties, pendent, flat, 2-3 in. long, 
tipped with persistent style. Seed ovate, a little flat- 
tened, with broad hilum, the latter situated toward one 
end, about % in. long, 33; in. broad. 
Buack Hyacintu.* Blossoms and pods purplish or violet ; 
seed dark brown to nearly black. — Plate 44, f. 1 and 2. 
Wuitrt Hyactntu.t Blossoms and seeds white, pods 
green, seed a little smaller than the preceding. — Plate 44, 
f. 3 and 4. 
D. SESQUIPEDALIS L. 
Dolichos sesquipedalis Linn. Sp. Pl. 1019. [ed. 2]. (1763).—8s 1040. 
[ed. Willd.]. (1800). Miller, Gard. Dict. (1807).— DC. Prodr. 2: 
400. (1825). — Nicholson, Gard. Dict. Suppl. (1900). — Bailey, Cyclop. 
Am. Hort. 13499. (1900). 
Plant climbing, twining, or trailing 4-8 ft. Leaflets 
dark green, ovate, often halberd shaped, 5-6 in. long, 3-4 
in. broad. Blossoms whitish, or tinged with purple, soli- 
tary or often in twos or threes, borne at end of peduncles. 
Pods green, terete or nearly so, 14-2 ft. long, variously 
twisted. Seed variously colored, small, oblong, with trun- 
cated ends. Two varieties are in common cultivation. 
* Dolichos Lablab Linn. Sp. Pl. 725. (1753). —8: 1037. [ed. Willd.]. 
(1800). — Miller, Gard. Dict. (1807). 
Lablab vulgaris niger, Lablab vulgaris purpureus DC. Prodr. 23 401. 
(1825). 
Laplap sive Lablab. Clus. Hist. Stirp. 731. (1583). 
Phaseolus Aegyptiacus nigro semine. Bauhin. Pinax 341. (1623). 
Phaseolus Lablab Alpini. Raius, Hist. Pl. 13888. (1686). 
Phaseolus Aegyptiacus nigro semine seu Lablab Alpini. Weinman. Phyt. 
43809. (1745). 
Field Columbian Museum, seeds, No. 12102: Philadelphia Commer- 
cial Museum, seeds, No. 7311, ‘‘ Sim.”’ 
+ Lablab vulgaris albiflorus DC. Prodr. 23 401. (1825). 
Phaseolus Aegyptiacus semine rufo. Bauhin. Pinax 341. (1623). 
Field Columbian Museum, seeds, No. 12099: Philadelphia Commercial 
Museum, seeds, No. 10600. 
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