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6th. Bertff. Bun sliim. 



Tefitiff. Adavi cliikiirkai. 



Doliclios spicatus. Kihi. JIss. 



Cacaralitorea. Rumpli. Anib. v, /. 141. /! 1. 



Smooth ill every part, and frequently biennial if not peren- 

 nial. It is never cultivated, nor any part ofit used. 



1th. For the 8evenlli variety 1 have no Asiatic name. It 

 is found with the former wild in the hedges, &c. nearSamul- 

 kota, and differs froin it in being- very downy; both havered 

 flowers and dark gray, mottled seeds. No part of these two 

 varieties is made any use of. 



9. D. Ufpiosu^. Wifid. iii. 1049. 



Perennial, twining, smooth. Racemes erect, long widi 

 alternate fascicles of short pedicelled flowers, on glandular 

 knobs. Leyumes linear, oblong, slightly incurved, torulose, 

 both maigins turned and rugose, with a subulate, recurved 

 apex. Seeds about four. 



I include under the above definition many varieties, some 

 of them hitherto deemed distinct species. All are cultivated 

 during the cold season in the gardens and about the doors of 

 the natives ; forming not only cool, shady arbours, but fur- 

 nishing them with an excellent pulse for their curries, &c. in 

 the tender legumes. In short these, and the four last mention- 

 ed, cultivated varieties oi' la blab, may be called the Kidneif 

 beans of the Jl statics. 



Var. 1st. Beng. Panch-shim. 



Teling. Telia chikurkai. 



The flowers are white, the legume straighter than in some 

 of the other varieties, and the seed reddish. I take it to be 

 Loiireiro's D. nngvicnlatus, but not that of Rumphius. The 

 following- full description of this variety will serve for the 

 other "five. 



Stem biennial or triennial, although seldom allowed to re- 

 main more than one year, twining, the lower parts becoming 

 woody, and as thick as the thumb, round,smooth, running to 



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