166 ss BOTANICON SINICUM. 
cultivation. The Shuo wen and the Kuang ya identify t 
siao tou with the 2 ta. — 
P., XXIV, 10, gives ta -as an, old name fort 
Tp hy EH chi siao tou (red small bean). The 7's‘ min yao shu 
distinguishes three kinds of the small bean—a red, a green 
and a white, referring to the colour of the seeds. ee 
According to Lovrerro, Flora cochin., 530, siao teu in 
: South China is the Chinese name for Phaseolus M ungo, Lu. In 
Ee Amen. exot., 837, we have 2 too, vulgo atsuki. Phaseolus 
hirsutus lobis foliorum ine illinc auritis, . . . floribus 
geminis uni longo petiolo insidentibus, languide luteis . - 
‘siliqua triuneiali, angusta, tereti, curva . . . seminibus ciceris 
magnitudine ... Semina in farindm redacta quotidianam 
subeunt pro scriblitis et libis pinsendis crustulariorum manus 
oe A drawing of this plant was subsequently published in Banks 
2S Teones Kempferi select, ete. tab. 40. TuHuNBERG, Flora 
japon, 279, identifies Kamprer’s atsukt with Phase 
vadiatus, L. In the So moku, XIII, 28, 29, of as Bis 
variety of Ph, radiatus with red seeds. Ibidem, 31, # 5 
Ph. radiatus, variety with green seeds. Lovuretro, l. ¢., 5289, 
7 Phaseolus radiatus, Li. siniee lin ten (i.e. $F lai tou, gr 
bean). Ph. radiatus is a near ally to Ph. Mungo, and t : 
we species have often been confounded by botanists. 
seeds of the former may be at once distinguished from the 
seeds of the green variety of Ph, Mungo, by their being 
= covered with long hairs, whilst the seeds of Ph. Mungo wa 
_ glabrous. Besides this the seeds of Ph. radiatus are distin 
‘Suishable by their prominent hilum. In a recently publis 
Interesting paper on 
a 
some leguminous plants cultivated m 
Russia, Prof. A. Baratin of the Botanic Gardens, St. P 
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