316 — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Doliches, 
Bractes solitary. lanceolate, concave. Flowers yellow, small. 
Legume compressed, falcate, two-seeded. Cattle eat this sort, 
1 know of no oiber use it is put to. 
20. D. Phaseoloides, Roxb, 
Perennial, twining, clothed with diverging hairs, Leaflets 
semi-cordate, and deltoid, or three-lobed. Racemes the length 
of the leaves, Legumes cylindric, toward the apex incury- 
ed, from ten to twenty-seeded. 
From Mr. Kerr at Canton in China, the seeds were receiv- 
ed into the Botanie garden in 1804; where the plants thrive 
well, and blossom chiefly about the close of the rains, and the 
seeds ripen about the beginning of the cool season, 
Stem and branches perennial, twining, when they do not 
meet with support, they run on the ground, and strike root, 
round, and clothed with distinct, brown, diverging hairs, 
Leaflets the pair sub-semi-cordate, sometimes the posterior 
margin projects into a large rounded lobe, the terminal one 
deltoid, or three-lobed, all are hairy like the branches, gene- 
rally from two to three inches long, and frou one totwo broad. 
Petivles very hairy, hairs harsh, aud brown, Stipules of the 
petioles triangular, of the leaflets subulate, Racemes axil- 
lary, solitary, about as long as the leaves. lowers numer-— 
ous, pretty large, violet-coloured,and collected in bundles on 
alternate glands. Bractes of the gland three-fold, those of 
the flowers two-fold, all are very hairy, and ovate-lanceolate, 
the former caducous, the latter more permanent, Calyx 
somewhat bilabidte the flower three-toothed, the middle tooth 
ends in a long filiform point, the upper bidentate, Legumes 
diverging, eylindrie, towards the apex incurved, about as 
thick asa common quill, and from three to four inches long, 
black when ripe, and a little hairy. Seeds from twelve to _ 
abi smooth,’ alt arene gray. 2 
21.D. fabefornis. Ti Willd. ii, 1052, 
- Annual, erect. Leaflets ovate, dentate, 
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