112 BIADELPHIA, DECANDRIA. - 
or Jinear), bivalve, divided into many cells by 
transverse dissepiments.” RK. Brown. 
Arborescent, shrubby or herbaceous; leaves pinnate; 
peduncles 1 or many-flowered. 
Species. 1. S. platycarpa. S. disperma. Pu. 2. p. 485. 
Hae. In Carvlina and Florida; common around New Or- 
Jeans. 2.*macrecarpa. Mubl. Flowers yellow. Around New 
Orleans. v.v. s. fl. Legume very long and narrow; leaflets 
numerous, oblong-elliptic.—A tropical genus of 10 spe- 
cies, indigenous to India and America, with one species 
in Egypt. 
tttttt Legume 1-celled, many-seeded. (Stamina 
diadelphous.) 
512. PHASEOLUS. L. (Kidney-bean.) 
Carina with the style and stamina spirally 
convolute, «« Legume compressed, falcate. Seeds 
compressed, reniform.” Exniort. mss. 
Herbaceous and mostly twining plants; leaves ternate, 
petiolate, stipules minute, distinct from the petiole; flow- 
ers mostly racemose and axillary.—Calix bilabiate, ofien 
bibracteate at the base, upper lip emarginate, lower 3 
toothed; vexillum sehecia, 
_. _ Spzctes. 1. P. perennis. Has. From New England to 
Carolina. Mr. Elliott considers the southern plant as 2 
pical genus, (with the above exception and 2 spe 
Cape of Good Hope), containing about 50 spe 
cies at the 
_ cies, several of which are cultivated for 
518. DOLICHOS. L. 
Vexillum with 2 oblong parallel callosities at 
its base, compressing the wings. 
Vegetation similar to Phaseolus.—Calix 4-toothed, up- 
per denture emarginate. Legume mostly cylindric. 
 Srectes. 1. D. luteolus? Probably not the same with 
the West ooh eet as the legumes are torulose, flattis): 
and somewhat’ hirsute. Has. Very common in the vici- 
nity of Savannah, (Georgia.) 2. vewillatue. Phaseolus 
vexillatus. L. 3. helvolus Also referred to Phaseolus with 
: the following by Willdenow. 4. trilobus. 5. parabelicns. 
Glycine parabolica. P.W. Barton, 
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