304 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



Callvanses (Dolichos Sinenfts m ~). They 

 are planted on dry hills, and are treated like 

 dwarf kidney beans. They do not grow high, 

 and therefore do not much want to be fup- 

 ported ; this however is done in fome places, 

 and efpecially where they ftand in the open 

 fields, which have no hedge or fence round t 

 nor are fences neceffary, as the cattle are al- 

 ways kept in the paftures by herdfmen. Thefe 

 beans are of the fmalleft kind, and are quite 

 white, except the germen, which is black, 

 but white in the middle. The Europeans buy 

 them in great quantities, and make ufe of them 

 in their return from China inftead of peafe. 

 They have thin hulks, and are very palatable. 

 A katty, which anfwers to a pound we ufe 

 for grocery, was fold for two kandarin, or 

 about three (livers. 



Lack-tao n is the Chinefe name of another 

 fort of beans, or rather peafe, which are 

 much lefs" than our wild vetches. The plant 

 itfelf grows like the former, upright, and 



m Dolichos (Sinenfis) caule ere&o ramofiffimo, pedun- 

 culis eredtis muhifloris, leguminibus pendulis; Chinenfibus 

 lao. 



» Phafeolus Max, Mungo Perfarum. 



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