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and' are about a foot in length : the calyx is bell-maped, gibbous at 
the bafe, lax, downy, divided into two lips, of which the upper 13 
femi-ovate ; the under feparates into three lance-fhaped fegments : the 
corolla is of the papilionaceous order, confiding of a vtxillum (ftandard) 
which is roundifh, entire, concave, obtufe, and double the length of 
the calyx; two ala (wings) which are oblong, obtufe, concave, and 
twice the length of the vexillum ; ocarina (keel) which is fcythe- 
fhaped, of the length of the alas, comprefled, and at the apex f 
niihed on each fide with a fhort concave fpur : the filaments are ten, 
nine of which are united at the bafe ; they are alternately longer and 
fhorter ; the former are four times the breadth of the others, and 
fupplied with incumbent antherag ; but the antherse of the latter are 
placed vertically : the germen is oblong, villous, and fupports a {lender 
ftyle about the length of the filaments, terminated by afmall orbicular 
ftigma : the fruit is an oblong pod, in the form of the letter f, four 
five inches in length, covered with brown briltly hairs, and 
taining four, five, or fix feeds, of a brownifh colour. The fl 
appear in September and October. 
The Dlant. 
y plant, known by the name of Cow-itch, Couhage, and Cow- 
hage, is referred by Bergius and Miller to the Dolichos urens of 
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Ifo to be found in Alton's Hortus Kewenfis. 
Though the pods of both D. urens and D. pruriens are befet with 
fetaceous hairs, but of the former thefe are fhorter, and very thinly 
ieattered over the pod, which is keel-fhaped, much longer, and 
than twice the breadth of that of the latter, and marked tranfverfely 
with deep furrows. Thefe circumftances fhow, that the D. urens is 
widely different from the officinal Cowhage here figured, which is a 
native of both Indies, and appears to have been cultivated in England 
in the time of Ray by Mr. Charles Hatton ; a and the plant is now 
the apothecaries garden at Chelfea 1 but we cannot learn 
that it has ever been known to produce perfect, flowers in our garde 
: fo that for the very correcl: figure fubjoined to this meet w< 
a Terrae commifla in horto D. Caroli Hatton plantas produxere. Vide Rail Hl/i. p 
007. In the Hort. Kew. D. oruriens is faid to have been firft introduced here hv Mr 
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