Dolichos. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 301 
Phaseolus maximus, Sloan. Jam, p. 177. t. 114. f. 1.2. 3. 
good, 
There are two varieties of this cultivated in Bengal, one 
with white, the other with red flowers; both have red beans. 
The young, tender, half-grown pods of both are good substi- 
tutes for those of the common Phaseolus, commonly called 
French beans. From Pegu a third variety has been received 
into the Botanic garden, which differs from the former two 
in the following respects, viz. 
In the legume being rather straighter, and the seeds light 
gray, instead of red, but the flowers are red, The same va- 
riety has also been found in the Silhet district, together with 
a fourth which is every way larger ; the flowers white, the le- 
gumes truly gladiate, about two feet long, and often contain- 
ing as many as twenty large, white, arilled seeds, This varie- 
ty is reckoned the most wholesome of them all, and is very 
extensively used at the tables of Europeans, as well as by the 
natives in that district, 
2, D. Virosus, Roxb. 
Biennial, twining, smooth, Leaflets oval. Stipules short, 
subulate. Racemes sub-secund, Legumes three-keeled on 
the back ; seeds from four to eight, arilled. 
Katu-Barameraca. Rheed. Mal, viii, t. 45. , s 
D. ensiformis, Lour. Cochin Ch, 531. His long-legumed 
variety is most likely one of the varieties of D. g/adiatus. 
Beng. Kath-shim, or Kala-shim, 
Teling. Aduyi-shamba. 
A native of hedges, &c. in most parts of India, and in 
flower and fruit a great part of the year. 3 
Stems may be reckoned biennial, twining to the extent of 
several fathoms, round, and smooth in every part. Leaves ter- 
nate. Leaflets nearly equal, oval, scarcely pointed, entire 
and smooth, from two to three inches long, Petioles about 
as long as the leaflets, channelled. Stipules short, like 
short inoffensive thorns ; those of the leaflets subulate. Race- 
