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Phaseolus, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 291 
long-peduncled, the horn’of the keel long and sharp. Legu- 
mes cylindric, smooth, from six to seven-seeded. 
Chin, Chamaloe-to. 
A native of China, reared in the Botanic garden from seed 
received from Canton, and Like most of the other leguminous 
_ plants, succeeds best during the dry season. 
Root annual. Stems twining, filiform, of very humble 
growth, and almost smooth. Leaves ternate. Leaflets, the 
pair obliquely ovate-cordate, the terminal one two inches 
long. ‘Stipules lanceolar, adnate, both acute, Peduncles— 
axillary, solitary, about as long as the leaves, angular and 
rather harsh, each supporting a small head of a few pairs of 
small greenish yellow flowers, each pair inserted in a small 
green gland. Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Calyx cam- 
panulate, unequally five-toothed. Banner of an inverse re- 
niform shape. Keel twisted; on the right side a long, sharp 
horn, which I find common to two thirds of the genus,  Le- 
gumes cylindric, smooth, slightly incurved, scarcely two 
inches long. Seeds from four to eight, sub-cylindric, smooth, 
dark gray. : 
I do not know any of the uses of this small species, nor do 
1 think, from its size and appearance in Bengal, that it can 
be applied to any useful purpose, oe 
SECT. II. Not twining. 
9. P. nanus. Willd. iii. 1036. 
Annual, with weak spreading branches, Bractes larger 
than the calyx. Legumes pendulous, compressed, one of the 
smallest of the annual cultivated sorts of Phaseolt. 
10. P. glaber, Roxb. 
Annual ; stipules obliquely ovate, adnate. Leaflets sub- 
cordate, entire. Heads long-peduncled. Spur of the keel 
remarkably large. Legume straight, ogy inet smooth, wer 
seeded. 
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