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men hairy; Style longer than the stamens; Stigma capitate. 
Legume oblong, ovate, compressed, hispid, with numerous 
brown, fragile, prurient hairs, and having a deep furrow along 
the edge, which is bordered on each side by a prominent wing. 
Seeds 3-4, marked nearly all round with the linear hilum. 
This is found in moist sandy soils, near the sea-coast, 
flowering during all the cool and rainy seasons. The beans 
are eaten by the natives, and esteemed both palatable and 
wholesome. 
Suprt. Tas. XIV. Mucuna gigantea. Fig. |, Vexillum. 
Fig. 9, The ale or wings. Fig. 3, Carina or keel:— 
natural size. | 
XV. 
LABLAB VULGARIS. 
DiapELPH:iA Decanpria. Nat. Ord. LzcUMINOSE. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar., Cal. campanulato-tubulosus 4-fidus, laciniis 
rectis, 3 infer. acutis, superiore latiore e duabus coalitis 
constante. Corolle vexillum patens basi sulcato-canali- 
culatum 4-callosum, callis parallelis, carina angulo recto 
curva. Stam, diadelpha, decimo intra vexilli callos 
recepto. Ovarii stipes basi vaginulatus. Stylus compressus 
subtus barbatus. Stigma terminale. Legumen compresso- 
planum acinaciforme ad suturas tuberculoso-muricatum, 
intus isthmis cellulosis transversis inter semina instructum. 
Semina 4 aut abortu pauciora ovata subcompressa, callo 
. fungoso lineari ex umbilico orto, in altera extremitate 
marginata.— Herbs volubiles. Stipule patentes. Folia 
pinnato-trifoliolata, foliolis stipellatis integris. Racemi 
pedunculati basi folium unicum gerentes, seu si mavis Jobo 
oppositi ramulo intermedio abortivo. Pedicelli semiverticil- 
~ lati. Semina nigra aut fusca, hilo et callo albo. DC. _ 
Lablab vulgaris ; leguminibus oblongo-ventricosis acinac- 
formibus, pericarpio facile detractili, seminibus ovatis sub- 
compressis, glandula basilari hemispherica sulcata. De. 
(Surrr. Tan. XV.) 
Lablab vulgaris “Savi Diss. 1821. p. 19. f: 8. a. b ^ 
| De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 401. 
