308 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Dolichos. 
an extent of many feet, or even fathoms, when supported. 
Leaves ternate. Leaflets broad cordate, smooth, entire, near- 
ly equal, from three or four inches long, and nearly the same 
breadth, Stipules of the petioles cordate, pointed, reflexed, 
those of the leaflets semi-lanceolate. Racemes axillary, rigid- 
ly erect, longer than the leaves, sometimes leaf-bearing. 
Flowers large, pure white, collected on remote, glandalar 
globular tuberosities, Bractes one to the insertion of each 
pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally. Banner, its’ 
callosities are remarkably large, Nectarial cup as in D. gla- 
diatus, Legumes horizontal, somewhat scimitar-shaped, pro- 
tuberant, somewhat inflated, while green both margins very 
rugose, with a subulate apex, recurved, about as thick and 
long as the little finger. Seeds about four, oval ; hilum ularge, 
bending round the upper extremity, — 
Var. 2d. Bagha-nakhooa (Tiger’s can} shim. Peduneles 
short. Flowers white. Legumes falcate, size of the little 
Singer?” ae 
Var, 3d. Sada-Samai-kooli-shim. Peduncles short, Flow- 
erswhite, Legume of a pretty straight gladiate-clavate shape, 
and about the length of the little finger. 
D. cultratus. Willd. iii. p. 1039. and B. H. fake Icon.: 
t, 25. 
Var, 4th, Piteli.jeindipuoliabiin of the Bengalees, Pe-: 
duncles short. Flowers reddish purple, differing’ in this re- 
spect only from last, for the legumes are the same, j 
Var. 5th. Doodha-pituli-shim. Large peduncles ities 
long. Flowers purple. Legumes falcate, and much longer 
than in Bagha-nakhooa. | | 
Var. 6th, Ganchi-shim of the Bengalees. tasiio oi i4e 
Nella chikurkai of the Telingas. “The largest of all. Pe. 
duncleslong. Flowers red, Legumes from six to eight inches’ 
long, much curved, Seeds black, with a white eye. 
