302 -DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Dolichos. 
mes axillary, solitary, as long, or longer than the leaves, sub- 
secund, Flowers in pairs, on round glands, scattered over 
the exterior half of the rachis, large, of a beautiful rosy pur- 
ple. Calyx bilabiate ; upper lip of two broad, circular lobes ; 
the under one three-toothed and small, Banner erect, round- 
ish, emarginate, Wings and keel falcate. Style and stigma 
smooth. Legumes linear, scimitar-shaped, smooth, from four 
to six inches long. Hard, tough, with the upper margin three- 
keeled, or two-groved, as in D. gladiatus aud rotundifolius, 
Seeds from four to eight, oblong, considerably larger than a 
field bean, smooth, light gray ; each enveloped in a white, 
tough, membranaceous aril. , 
I do not find that any part of this species is in any shape 
useful to the natives, or others; indeed the natives of Coro- 
mandel, where the plant is common, reckon it poisonous, 
which is corroborated by Van Rheed. 
3.. D. setae ifolius Vahl. Symb, ii. p. 81. Willd. iii. 
1040. 
Biennial, twining, dik: leaflets obovate, rotund, Le- 
_gumes semi-elliptic, from three to four inches long. Bark 
three-keeled, Seeds from three to five, obovate, gray, ina 
common membranaceous aril, 
Katu-Tsjandi, Rheed, Mal. viii. t. 43, which is also 
quoted by Lamarck for his D, obtusifolius. Encycl. ii, 295, 
A native of the Islands about the mouth of the river Go- 
daveri, &c. on the coast of Coromandel. Flowering time the 
rainy season, 
“A.D. sinensis, Willd. ili, 1038. : 
Annual, twining, smooth. Peduneles longer than the leaves, 
many-flowered, Legumes long, pendulous, cylindric, torose 
Hird. Lobia: 3 eas | 5 seek Ske ptee 
Teling. Alsanda, 
New. Haco-bhati. ge 2 
D, sinensis, Rumph, Amb. v. t, 134, 
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