300 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Dolichos, 
from the province of Oude where it is much cultivated, as it 
also is over the adjoining provinces to the westward, and 
used for feeding cattle ; seed-time there, June and July ; har- 
_ vest in November. 
_ Root annual, perpendicular, with few fibres. Stems nu- 
merous, spreading close in the ground, and extending from 
_two to twelve feet every way; succulent, angular and a little 
hairy. Leaves ternate. Leaflets deeply divided into three, 
or five, linear-lanceolate, somewhat hairy, entire lobes. Pe- 
tioles longer than the leaflets, deeply channelled above, with 
ridges underneath. Stipules of the petioles adjoined, ovate- 
lanceolate ; those of the leaflets subulate. Peduneles axillary, 
solitary, nearly as long as the petiole, but much more slen- 
der, angular and somewhat hairy, each ending in an oblong 
glandular head, of many small, yellow, short-pedicelled 
flowers. Bractes lanceolate, ciliate. Calya; corol, &c. as 
the genus. Legume horizontal, cylindric, pretty smooth. 
~The uncommon luxuriance of this plant gives reason to 
think it will yield a much larger crop of fodder than any 
other I am acquainted with. 
DOLICHOS. Schreb. gen. N. 1181. 
Two callosities at the base of the banner, ee oblong, 
end anin. the wings underneath. 
9 D. pled Willd. i, 1039, 
Perennial, twining, smooth. Leaflets ovate-cordate, sathen 
acute. Legumes gladiate, three-keeled, or two-grooyed on 
the back, the middle one three-ribbed. Seeds arilled, red, 
white, or gray. 
Beng. Mukhin-shim, ee 
D. ensiformis, Syst. Veg. 547. Bins sab. BOiste i> cobage 
Bara mareca. Rheed, Mal. viii, t, 44, o 
Lobus macheroides. — Amb, v. t. 135, or 4. dik 
