300 DIADELPHIA DECANDIUA. DoHcIlOS. 



from the province of Oude where it is niucli cultivated, as it 

 also is over the adjoining- provinces to the westward, and 

 used for feeding- cattle ; seed-time there, June and July ; har- 

 vest in November. 



Root annual, perpendicular, with few fibres. ,S'/pw5 nu- 

 merous, spreading- close in the ground, and extending from 

 two to twelve feet every way ; succulent, angulir and a little 

 hairy. Leaves ternate. Leaflets deeply divided into three, 

 or five, linear-lanceolate, somewhat hairy, entire lobes. Pe- 

 tioles longer than the leaflets, deeply channelled above, with 

 ridges underneath. Stipules of the petioles adjoined, ovate- 

 lanceolate ; those of the leaflets subulate. Peduncles axillary, 

 solitaiy, nearly as long as the petiole, but much more slen- 

 der, angular and somewhat hairy, each ending- in an oblong 

 o-landular head, of many small, yellow, short-pedicelled 

 flowers. J5rac^fs lanceolate, ciliate. Calyx; corol, &c. as 

 the o-enus. Legume horizontal, cylindric, pretty smooth. 



The uncommon luxuriance of this plant gives reason to 

 think it Avill yield a much larger crop of fodder than any 

 other I am acquainted with. 



DOLICHOS. Schreh.gen. N. 1181. 

 Two callosities at the base of the banner, parallel, oblong, 

 compressing- the wings underneath. 



1. D. gladiatus, Willd. iii. 1039. 



Perennial, twinino-, smooth. Leaflets ovate-cordate, rather 

 acute. Legumes gladiate, three-keeled, or two grooved on 

 the back, the middle one three-ribbed. Seeds arilled, red, 

 white, or gray. 



Beng. M?/kh7m-shim. 



D. ensij'ormis. Sgst. Veg. 547. Kcemp. tab, 39. 



Bara mareca. Rheed. J^Jal. viii. t. 44. 



Lobus machseroides. Rumph. Jlmb. v. t. 135./'. K 



