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288 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. PhaseoluS, 



3. p. maximus. Sloan. Jam. t. 11 J. ^^. 1. 



There are several varieties (six I know,) of this; all are 

 cultivated for our tables. The natives rarely use any part of 

 the plant, nor have they any vernacular name for it, hence I 

 doubt its being- a native of India. Seed sent me from North 

 America under the name Lima bean, grew and produced 

 another (a white seeded) variety of the same species. 



4. P. alatus. Willd. iii. 1034. 



Perennial, smooth. Flouiers racemed, in pairs Avith a 

 gland between. Nectary within the stamina, five-toothed. 

 Leyumes pedulous. 



Teling. Kar-alsanda. 



Beny. B«n bj/rb^tee. 



Katu paeru. Rheed. Mai. viii. t. 42. 



The legumes in Dillenius's figure are straighter and more 

 pointed, than in our East India plant. 



A native of Bengal. Flowers in the cold season. This is 

 by far the largest flowered Phaseolus I know. 



5. P. suhlobatus. R. 



Annual, very hairy. Leaflets slightly lobed. Peduncles 

 long, twining, and proliferous. Legumes cylindric, hairy, 

 fourteen or fifteen-seeded. 



Beng. Gora moog. 



This plant I have only found in Bengal where it is indige- 

 nous. Flowering time the end of the cold and hot seasons. 



Stems twining, very hairy, from three to five feet long, in- 

 cluding the proliferous, twining peduncles. Leaves ternate. 

 Leaflets, the lateral ones gibbous on the outside, the middle 

 one somewhat three-lobed, all are hairy, but much less so than 

 the stems, branches, and petioles ; from two to three inches 

 'long, and about one and a half or two broad. Petioles the 

 length ofthe leaflets, channelled, very hairy. Stipules duX^o'xweA, 

 lanceolate-oblong, ciliate. Peduncles axillary, and terminal, 

 the latter very long, proliferous, twining, and pretty smooth, 



