104 LEGUMINOSAE, | Phaseolus. 
B var. pubescens. — Leayes pubescent underneath. Lower calyx-lobes 
obtuse. C. hee pate & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 81 
Niibau; Hawaii, Ka . A 
From Ke auai (in. 2 2 4) inf shes h ll 10—12"), 
nd the upper calyx-lobe shorter pricier to the tube. — also contains nbs 
evidently of this genus, but chartaceous and turgid, with more ae wings along t 
serge suture than in the species described. The seeds also differ in being rather all 
black, although with the rhaphe linear and straight. 
15. PHASEOLUS, L. 
Calyx campanulate or nearly tubular, 5-toothed or 5-lobed, rarely 4- 
toothed by the union of the 2 upper teeth. Standard orbicular, recurved. 
Keel produced into a long twisted beak. Upper stamen free. Style 
thickened and cartilaginous in the upper part, paging with a line of hairs 
under the stigma, which is more or less oblique or lateral. Pod linear 
and nearly cylindrical, or more or less flattened se falciform. Seeds 
several, thick, with a short Hope hilum. — ‘Herbs, either dwarf or 
prostrate, or more frequently twining. Leaflets 3, rarely reduced to one, 
stipellate. Peduncles axillary, bearing in the upper part several 3- or 
2-flowered nodes. Bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Corollas white, 
yellowish, red or purple 
A large genus, widely dispersed over the tropical regions of Asia, Africa and more 
expecially America.» Several species through long cultivation have established races, the 
rigin of which it is now difficult to trace. Here belong the common Kidney Bean, 
a pore and the Lima sa tee P. lunatus 
Upper calyx-lobes broad and ob pod ediapienboa:. eee © Truxillensis. 
All calyx-lobes acute; pod ht Seas not twining r ; 2: 7 semierectus, 
be P. Truxillensis, H. B. K. Nova Gen. hide. 6, 451. — DC. Prod. 1, 
~— A twining herb, glabrate or pubescent, the hairs of the stem 
aces those of the leaves appressed silky. Leaflets ovate or lanceolate, 
1—3' X 8/4—2', obtuse or acuminate, it lateral ones oblique. Stipellae 
minute, oblong; stipules small, not decurrent. Peduncles elongate, few- 
flowered near the apex. Pedicels 1 mat bracteoles shorter t 
a coriaceous, deciduous. Flowers large, nearly 1‘, purple, Gate rose 
olet. Upper calyx-lobe short, broad and obtuse, the others longer, 
acu si Pod compressed, straight or faleate, 2—5' * 3—4"”. — P. Cw- 
mingti, Benth. — P. amoenus, Sol. — P. rostratus, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. I, 
p. 50, tab 
rama Diamond Hill (U. 8. E. E.); Hawaii (Remy); also found by Menzies, Nuttall 
and — A native e probably of 8. America, but collected also in most Polynesian 
islands, pony ‘the E. coast of Australia and in other tropical countries 
72. P. semierectus, LZ. — DC. Prod. Il, 396. — ee herbaceous, 
suberect, rarely twining at the end, gal or glabrate. Leaflets ovate, 
membranous, triplinerved, 1'/2' 3/4‘, on petiolules of 1'/2“, acuminate, 
silky underneath when young, but soon glabrate, the petiole 1'/2—2’. 
Stipules lanceolate, 3—4", not produced at the base. Peduncle 12—18‘ 
