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LEGUMINOSjE. CLXXXVIII. PHASEOLUS. 



shorter than the leaves ; legume straight, torose, mucronate, when 

 in an immature state it is spotted with blood colour ; seeds 

 ovate, turgid, variegated. 0. / "\ H. Native country unknown. 

 Flowers pale violet. Legume 4-5 inches long. Called the Cape 

 kidney-bean by gardeners. 



Bloody-fruited Kidney-bean. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. ? PI. tw. 



28 P. SPILE'RICUS (Savi, mem. 3. p. 20. f. 17.) plant tall, 

 twining, smoothish ; leaflets ovate, acuminated ; racemes shorter 

 than the leaves ; legumes straightish, torose, mucronate ; seeds 

 roundish. Q. '"* S. Native country unknown. Flowers pale 

 violet. Legume 4-5 inches long. Seeds red, brown, flesh- 

 coloured, or violaceous, zonate, with an areola round the mar- 

 gin. To this species belong the garden kidney-beans called 

 Haricot d' Orleans, Haricot de Prague, &c. 



Spherical-seeAed Kidney-bean. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. ? PL tw. 



29 P. GONOSPE'RMIS (Savi, mem. 3. p. 21. f. 19.) plant tall, 

 twining, smoothish ; leaflets ovate, acuminated ; racemes shorter 

 than the leaves ; legumes torulose, nearly straight, mucronate ; 

 seeds compressed, irregularly angled. . <r> . H. Native coun- 

 try unknown. Flowers white or very pale violet. Legume 3-4 

 inches long, sometimes spotted with red. Seeds small, white, 

 flesh-coloured, or chestnut-coloured. 



Angular-seeded Kidney-bean. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. ? PI. tw. 



30 P. DERA'SUS (Schranck, hort. mon. 1. t. 89.) plant twining, 

 smoothish ; leaflets ovate, acuminated ; peduncles 2-4-flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracteoles small ; vexillum concave, 

 roundish, shorter than the wings ; legumes linear-oblong. O- '"' 

 H. Native of Brazil. Corolla greenish white. Seeds black, 

 with a white hylum. 



Scraped-off or Black-seeded Kidney-bean. Fl. June, Aug. 

 Clt. 1819. PL tw. 



31 P. LUNA'TUS (Lin. spec. 1016.) plant twining, smoothish ; 

 leaflets ovate, acuminated ; racemes pedunculate, shorter than 

 the petioles ; pedicels twin ; bracteas small, adpressed ; vexillum 

 concave, roundish ; legume acinaciform, rather lunate, smooth, 

 2-4-seeded. Q. ^\ S. Native of Bengal. Houtt, pfl. syst. - 

 8. t. 63. P. rufus, Jacq. hort. vind. 1. t. 34. P. lunatus, of 

 Lour, probably distinct from the plant of Linnaeus. Flowers 

 small, white. Seeds dark purple, streaked with white, large. 

 The seeds are cooked and eaten in Cochin-china as well as in the 

 East Indies, but the plant is grown more for the beauty of the 

 seeds than for their flavour. 



Lunate-podded Kidney-bean. Fl.Ju. Jul. Clt. 1779. PI. tw. 



32 P. INAMCE'NUS (Lin. hort. clifF. 359.) plant twining, gla- 

 brous ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, much taper-pointed ; racemes 

 pedunculate, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels twin or tern ; 

 vexillum concave, shorter than the wings ; legume acinaciform, 

 acuminated. 0. ^. H. Native of Africa. Jacq. hort. vind. 

 t. 66. P. macrocarpus, Mcench. meth. 141. but not of Poir. 

 Flowers with a greenish vexillum and whitish wings. Seeds 

 compressed, variegated with white and blood-red or scarlet. 



Unpleasing Kidney-hean. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1794. PI. tw. 



33 P. XUARE'SII (Zucc. cent. no. 81. A.) plant twining, pu- 

 bescent ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, ending each in a long taper 

 point, lateral ones dependent ; racemes pedunculate, shorter 

 than the leaves ; wings of corolla elongated ; legume acinaci- 

 form ; seeds compressed. . / ~*. H. Native country unknown. 

 Nearly allied to P. inamcenus. 



Xuares's Kidney-bean. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1818. PI. tw. 



34 P. I-UBE'RULUS (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 

 451.) plant twining; branches and leaves pubescent; leaflets 

 ovate, acuminately-mucronate ; peduncles many-flowered, shorter 

 than the leaves ; legumes lanceolately-cultriform, glabrous. 

 . ^. S. Native of South America, at Rio Guayre, near Ca- 

 raccas. Flowers bluish white. Seeds chestnut-coloured. 



Pubemlous Kidney-bean. PI. tw. 



35 P. ADENA'NTHUS (Meyer, prim, esseq. 239.) plant twin- 

 ing, glabrous ; leaflets ovate, acuminately cuspidate, middle one 

 lanceolate-oblong ; racemes rather longer than the leaves ; pe- 

 dicels twin, rising from the base of glands ; bracteoles ovate- 

 roundish ; legumes incurved, with scabrous margins. .^. S. 

 Native of Guiana, in shady humid places. Flowers large, white 

 painted with blue. 



Gland-flowered Kidney-bean. PI. tw. 



36 P. TuNKiNE'Nsis(Lour. coch. 435.) plant twining, branched, 

 glabrous ; leaflets small, thick ; racemes axillary ; legume some- 

 what lunate, compressed, smooth, pendulous, 3-seeded. . *"*. H. 

 Native of Cochin-china. Flowers white, but the vexillum is 

 revolute and greenish. Seeds ovate, pale, variegated with red. 

 The plant is cultivated in Cochin-china for the sake of the seeds, 

 which are dressed and eaten by the inhabitants. 



Tunrjiiin Kidney-bean. Fl. June, July. PL tw. 



37 P. MACROCA'RPUS (Poir. suppl. 3. p. 6.) plant twining, 

 smoothish ; leaflets ovate-roundish, or acuminated ; peduncles 

 axillary, short, few-flowered ; legume very long, glabrous, end- 

 ing in a hooked mucrone. Q. *"*. H. Native country unknown. 

 Flowers and seeds white. 



Long-fruited Kidney-bean. PI. tw. 



38 P. FU'SCUS (Wall. pi. asiat. rar. 1. p. 6. t. 6.) plant 

 annual, clothed with hoary pubescence and pili, twining, much 

 branched ; root fibrous ; branches filiform, furrowed ; leaflets 

 ovate, acute, entire ; racemes pedunculate, shorter than the 

 leaves ; flowers lurid on the outside ; calyx beset with resinous 

 dots, 4-toothed, lower tooth elongated ; keel a little beaked, 

 incurved; legume hairy, flat, linear. Q. / "\ S. Native of the 

 Burman Empire, at Prome. Flowers crowded ; the vexillum 

 dark brown beneath and shining, but opaque above and yellow- 

 ish, with brown lines. Keel and wings yellow. 



rcwn-flowered Kidney-bean. PI. tw. 



5. Heterophylli (from trtpoc, heteros, and ^uXXoy, phyllon, 

 'a leaf; in reference to the variable shape of the leaflets, some 

 being lobed and others entire). Leaflets all or some of them 

 lobed. 



39 P. MICROSPE'RMUS (Ort. dec. 130.) stem erect, angular, 

 and is as well as the leaves glabrous ; leaflets riiomboid-ovate, 

 3-lobed ; peduncles axillary, very long, racemose ; bracteoles 

 subulate ; wings of corolla orbicular , legumes linear, com- 

 pressed, pendulous. Q. S. Native of Cuba. Flowers of a 

 dirty purple colour. Seeds grey, lined with black. 



Small-seeded Kidney-bean. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1825. PL 1 ft. 



40 P. oiBBosir6Lius (Ort. dec. 25.) plant twining, hairy ; 

 leaflets rhomboid-ovate, lateral ones gibbously 2-lobed on 

 the outer side ; peduncles 3 times the length of the leaves ; 

 flowers twin, disposed in something like a spike ; bracteoles 

 coloured; legume linear, dependent, incurved. . *"\ S. Na- 

 tive of Cuba. Corolla vermilion-coloured. Seeds small, olive- 

 coloured, and variegated. 



Gibbous-leafletted Kidney-bean. PI. tw. 



41 P. HETEROPHY'LLUS (Willd. enum. 753. H. B. et Kunth, 

 nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 446.) plant twining ; branches beset with 

 retrograde pili ; leaflets hispid beneath and on the margins, 

 middle one oblong and repand, lateral ones ovate-oblong, having 

 one lobe each above the base ; peduncles longer than the pe- 

 tioles ; flowers somewhat spicate ; bracteoles small ; lobes of 

 calyx 5, acute, nearly equal ; legumes linear-falcate. Q. '"'. H. 

 Native of Mexico, near Valladolid. Flowers small, red. 



Various-leaved Kidney-bean. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1820. PI. tw. 



42 P. VESTITUS (Hook. bot. misc. 2. p. 21 6.) plant twining, 

 and clothed with dense pubescence ; leaflets rhomboid, rc-tuse, 

 lateral ones somewhat lobed ; racemes twice the length of the 

 leaves ; teeth of calyx broad-subulate, nearly equal : legumes 



