310 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Dolichos. 
clothed with a few, short, white, compressed hairs. Seeds 
from eight to twelve, nearly circular, but much flattened, 
brown, and smooth. 
It is cultivated throughout the Malay Islands for its roots, 
which resemble a turnip in taste, and consistence, and form 
part of their diet, no other part of the plaut is eaten, 
11. D. gangeticus. Roxb. 
Biennial or perennial, twining, smooth. Leaflets lanceolate. 
Pedunceles longer than the leaves, many-flowered. Legumes 
cylindric, reflexed, from six to eight-seeded. 
Beng. Bun burbutee. 
Found on the moist banks of the Ganges, where it flou- 
rishes during the cold season, and lasts at least two years. 
Stems twining to a considerable extent, smooth. Leaflets 
ovate-lanceolate, sub-equal, entire, and pretty.smooth, three 
inches long, by about one broad. Petéoles channelled. Sii- 
pules small, adjoined, cordate. Pedtineles axillary, solitary, 
erect, round, smooth, much longer than the leaves, each sup- 
porting a head of from four to eight large, yellow, short-pe- 
dicelled flowers, Wings, a remarkable long horn projects 
forward from near the base into the concavity formed by the 
calluses of the base of the banner. Legumes reflexed, cylin- 
dric, with a recurved conical point, a little curved, and with 
a few short, stiff hairs, which are readily removed by friction. 
Seeds six or eight, sub-cylindric, dark brown, size of a small 
pea. Cattle are fond of it, otherwise it is of no use that I can 
2. D. acicadien, B. AI, and Kin, Mss. 
Root tuberous. Siems twining, downy, herbaceous, Leaf. 
lets oval, silky underneath. Resnies shorter than the leaves. | 
Legumes scimitar-shaped, three or four-seeded. 
D. ciliatus. Willd. iii, 1049, 
Teling. Canchi chikurkai, 
