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cemes longer tlian the leaf subspiked, standard con- 

 cave half the length of the wings, legumes tereti-sub- 

 ulate. — De Cand. 



P. erectus lathyroides, flore amplo coccineo, Sloane, I. 183. 

 t. 116. f. 1. — P. minor erectus pratensis, sillquis gracilibus, 

 Browne, 291 P. lathyroides, Swartz, Obs. 28U. 



HAB. Common in damp situations. 



FL. Principally towards the end of the year, 



A foot or more in height : branches simple, erect, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaflets glabrous .above, pubescent beneath : petioles 

 angulated, coloured. Stipules acuminate. Peduncles long, 

 terete, pubescent, many-flowered. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 

 generally in pairs, blood-coloured. Upper lip of the calyx 

 bidentate : lower 3-dentate. Standard clawed, subrotund, emar- 

 ginate, concave, reflected, pale red : wings larger than the stan- 

 dard, deep crimson : keel whitish. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary 

 terete : style subulate : stigma incrassated, pubescent beneath. 

 Legume cylindrical, many-seeded : seeds subrotund, brownish. 



The flowers are rather showy, and might claim for the plant 

 a place in the garden. 



XXV. DOLICHOS. 



Calyx bibracteolated, campanulate, 5-dentate, with 

 2 of the teeth approximate or partially coalescing at 

 the base. Standard subrotund, sulcated with 2-4 

 diverging callosities at the base ; wings oblong, ob- 

 tuse ; keel incurved nearly at a right angle, obtuse, 

 neither spirally twisted, nor turned to one side in the 

 slightest degree. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1): 

 anthers subrotund. Style compressed, bearded be- 

 neath from the middle to the apex. Legume com- 

 pressed, linear, bivalved, partially furnished with cel- 

 lulose isthmi between the seeds ; valves neither winged 

 nor nerve-bearing : seeds ovate, more or less com- 

 pressed, with the hilum oval small. — De Cand. 



Herbaceous or suflFruticose, generally twining : cauline sti- 

 pules acute ; leaves pinuato-3-foIiate ; leaflets stipellated ; ra- 

 cemes axillary. — The name was applied by Dioscorides to a 

 plant, supposed to be the common Kidney-bean. 



1. Dolichos tuberosus. Yam-Bean. 



Stem fruticose twining, root tuberose, leaflets sub- 

 rotund acuminate, racemes pedunculated elongated, 



