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spreading or pendent. Seed small, usually with truncated 
ends, variously colored in different varieties, usually with 
dark area around the hilum. 
Many varieties are to be found in cultivation, generally 
known as cow peas, differing from each other mainly in 
size and color of seed. These are grown mostly as forage 
plants. The two following are grown and used in France 
as a garden esculent to a very limited extent. 
MoneerrTe.* Plant vigorous, 15-18 in. high, with many 
runners. Pods 6-8 in. long, $ in. in diameter. Seed 4-} 
in. long. — Plate 44, f. 11. 
Tonx1n.t Plant very low, spreading, with few runners 
3 ft. in length. Pods 5-7 in. long, } in. in diameter. 
Seed very small, seldom more than } in. long. — Plate 44, 
+. 35. 
GLYCINE HISPIDA Maxim. 
Phaseolus niger Rumphius, Herb. Amb. 5 : 388. [t. 740]. (1747). 
Dolichos Soja Linn. Sp. Pl. 727. (1753).— 8 3 1051. [ed. Willd]. (1800).— 
Miller, Gard. Dict. (1807). 
Dolichos Soia Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 441. (1790). 
Soja hispida DC. Prodr. 2 3 396. (1825). 
Glycine hispida Maxim. Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 183 398. (1873).— 
Franch. & Say. Enum. Pl. Jap. 13108. (1875).— Bailey, Cyclop. Am. 
Hort. 23 653. (1900). 
Plant an annual, erect, hispid, 134-2 ft. high or more. 
Leaves trifoliolate, on medium long petioles ; leaflets ciliate, 
ovate-elliptical, smooth, thin, entire. Flowers small, in 
short axillary racemes. Pods 1}-3 in. long, % in. broad, 
constricted between the seeds, short-mucronate, hispid, on 
short peduncles, 3—4 seeded, pendent. Seed black, brown, 
yellow, green, or white in different varieties, subglobose, } 
in. thick, pea-like, smooth. 
There are many varieties, differing mainly in color of 
* Black-eyed Bird’s Foot. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 74. (1885).— 
Dolique Mongette, Banette, Haricot Cornille. Vilmorin-And. Cat. (1891). 
+ Dolique du Tonkin. Vilmorin-And. Cat. (1891). 
