353 
Dolichos Lablab. Zinn. Sp. Pl. p. 1019. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 896. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 1037. 
Dolichos purpureus. Sm. Ex. Bot. t. 14. Bot. Reg. t. 830. 
(an Linn. ?)—D. Lablab, &. De Cand. 
y. floribus albis. De Cand.—D. Benghalensis, Jacq. Hort. 
Vind. v. 9. p. 124. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 8. p. 1038. 
A large twining annual.—Stems rounded, thick, and woody 
near the roots; herbaceous and rough towards the extremity. 
Leaves petioled, ternate; leaflets 3-nerved at the base, 
reticulate, and slightly rugose, rough above, beneath pubes- 
cent, entire, acuminated, the middle one obsoletely 3-lobed, 
the lateral ones spreading outwards. Stipules reflexed, 
withering. Flowers subverticillate, in long, distant, large, 
purple racemes, which bear a single leaf near the base. 
Calyx bibracteate, campanulate, 2-lipped; the upper lip 
broad, obtuse, entire, or sometimes slightly cleft at the 
apex; under one 3-cleft, the middle segment the longest. 
Corolla papilionaceous; Vezillum reflexed, emarginate, 
With 4 callous bodies near the base, furrowed between; 
Wings obovate, auricled at the base, with the claw slender, 
bent at the point; Keel curved upwards at a right angle, 
and terminating in a sharp acumen. Stamens diadelphous, 
the teeth jointed at the base, and embraced so firmly by the 
lower pair of protuberances of the vexillum as frequently to — 
‘parate along with that petal: the free part of the filaments _ 
very slender, Pistil oblong, substipitate, the stipes em- 
braced by a fleshy sheath; Style compressed, the edge hairy 
below the simple stigma. Legume short, broad, compressed, 
acinacifor m, rough on both sides to the touch, in consequence 
a row of prickles. i; 
his plant is frequent in hedges which enclose cultivated 
SrOunds, Tt flowers during the cool and rainy seasons. 
Se luxuriant plants when fully in blossom are extremely 
Sawy, and continue so for a long time, in consequence of 
the Successive expansion of their flowers. : 
The seeds of the purple, or wild kind, are bitter, an 
but little employed as an esculent—those of the white, or 
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