Dolichos. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 307 
6th. Beng. Bun-shim. 
Teling. Adavi chikurkai. 
Dolichos spicatus, Kon. Mss, 
Cacara litorea. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 141. f. 1. 
Smooth in every part, and frequently biennial if not peren- 
nial, It is neve? cultivated, nor any part of it used. 
7th. For the seventh variety I have no Asiatic name. It 
is found with the former wild in the hedges, &c, near Samul- 
kota, and differs from it in being very downy; both have red 
flowers and dark gray, mottled seeds, No part of these two 
varieties is made any use of. 
9. D. lignosus. Willd, iti. 1049, 
Perennial, twining, smooth. Racemes erect, long with 
alternate fascicles of short pedicelled flowers, on glandular 
knobs. Legumes linear, oblong, slightly incurved, torulose, 
both margins turned and rugose, with a subulate, recurved 
apex. Seeds about four. 
I include under the above definition many varieties, some 
of them hitherto deemed distinct species, All are cultivated 
during the cold season in the gardens and about the doors of 
the natives; forming not only cool, shady arbours, but fur- 
nishing them with an excellent pulse for their curries, &c, in 
the tender legumes, In short these, and the four last mention- 
ed, cultivated varieties of ablab, may be called the Kidney 
beans of the Asiatics. 
Var, 1st. Beng, Panch-shim. ‘ 
Teling. Tella chikurkai. 
The flowers are white, the legume straighter than in some 
of the other varieties, and the seed reddish. I take it to be 
Loureiro’s D, unguiculatus, but not that of Rumphius. The 
following full description of this variety will serve for the 
other five. 
Stem biennial or triennial, although seldom allowed to re- 
main more than one year, twining, the lower parts becoming : 
woody, and as thick as the thumb, round,smooth, running to 
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