134 BOTANY. 



SWORD BEAN. 



The sword bean is planted to a small extent, and its 

 young pods are used as a vegetable. 

 Canavalia gladiata. 

 Dolichus gladiatus. 



INDIAN KIDNEY BEAN. 



Burmese and Karens grow several varieties of one or 

 two species of lablab, which occupy the place of kidney 

 beans in Europe. 



Lablab vulgar e. 



Dolichos lablab. 



b* bibj. c8oo£« 



NATIVE BEAN. 



The natives cultivate another bean which resembles 

 the common European bean, and is esteemed by them a 

 good vegetable. 



Cyamopsis psoraloides . 



Dolichos fabccformis. 



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BLACK GRAM. 



Crawfurd says that one of the most common pulses seen 

 in Burmah is the Phaseolus max ; which is the plant that 

 produces the black gram of India. 



Phaseolus Mungo, melanospermus. 

 Max. 



MELILOT. 



Griffith saw large fields of melilot in the neighborhood 

 of Ava, but I have not seen it in these Provinces. 

 Me It lotus. 



