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'23. Dolichos Purpureus ; Purple Do tiehot. Stem smooth; 

 petioles pubescent ; wings of the corolla spreading. Leaf- 

 Sets subcordute, smooth, netted underneath with purple 

 veins ; calices covered with two bractes ; corolla bright 

 purple ; keel violet below the tip. The legumes, when 

 young and fresh, are sapid and salubrious; seeds com- 

 pressed, o%'ate, surrounded with a scar. Native of both 

 Indies : cultivated in China and Cochin-china. 



24. Dolichos Regularis. Leuves ovate, obtuse ; peduncles 

 many-flowered ; petals equal in size and alike in form. 

 Native of Virginia. 



25. Dolichos Lignosus ; Woody Dolichos. Stem peren- 

 nial ; peduncles forming a head; legumes stiff and straight, 

 linear. Hoot woody, perennial ; leaves alternate, on long 

 font-stalks, ternate, or rather binate, with an odd leaflet; 

 common footstalk roundish, channelled above, umbelling, 

 and purplish at the base; partial ones very short, swollen, 

 rvcd ; leaflets rhombed, elongated, acute, entire, obso- 

 letelv three-nerved, bright green and shining above, glaucous 

 beneath ; racemes axillary, solitary, erect, having from three 

 to six [lowers in a little head ; flowers nodding a little, rose- 

 coloured, with a purplish keel ; seeds black. Native of the 

 East Indies. It is easily propagated by seed, and produces 

 abundance of flowers during summer in a stove. 



2'j. Dolichos Polystachios ; Many-spiked Dolichos. Stem 

 perennial ; racemes very long ; pedicels in pairs ; legumes 

 acuminate, compressed. Stem becoming shrubby, often 

 round, smooth, very long; leaves alternate, unequally pin- 

 nate, smooth ; leaflets about six pairs, opposite, on very 

 short petioles, ovate, acuminate, entire, smooth, pale un- 

 derneath, an inch long, the odd lobe on a longer petiole ; 

 the flowers from the same bud with the leaves, in racemes 

 often a foot in length ; pedicels scattered, opposite, and 

 alternate, short, one-flowered. It varies with white and 

 with purple corollas, with larger hirsute, and with smaller 

 smooth legumes. Native of Japan, where it is frequently 

 cultivated for arbours ; and also of Virginia. 



2~. Dolichos Reticulatus; Netted-leaved Dolichos. Leaves 

 i*vate, acute, wrinkled, netted, villose ; racemes few-flow- 

 ered. Shrubby. Native of New South Wales. 



28. Dolichos Luteus. Twining : flowers in a sort of 

 spike ; legumes subcylindric, smooth ; leaves roundish, 

 rhombed, obtuse, entire, smooth. Native of Jamaica. . 



29. Dolichos Montanus; Mountain Dolichos. Stem 

 shrubby, climbing ; leaflets ovate, rhombed ; five filamenta 

 with oblong antherae, and five alternate, roundish. Roots 

 subtuberous, hard, long, in bundles ; stem long, branched; 

 leaflets large, tomentose, entire ; flowers wholly purple, in 

 long lateral spikes ; stamina five, longer, with oblong an- 

 thera:, five alternately shorter, with roundish antherae ; 

 legume linear, straight, compressed, separated between 

 tlu- seeds, which are compressed and suborbiculate. 

 Native of the mountain woods of Cochin-china. 



30. Dolichos Hastatus. Stem procumbent ; leaves sub- 

 hastate ; peduncles many-flowered, erect. Stem annual, 

 long, round, branched ; flowers yellow, axillary, on long 

 striated peduncles ; legume linear, straight, subcylindric; 

 seeds ovate, pale, esculent. Native of Africa. 



31. Dolichos Rotundifolius. Legumes racemed, com- 

 pressed, somewhat hairy, sword-shaped ; leaflets oval, 

 roundish, smooth. Stem smooth, woody, angular at top ; 

 leaflets oval, the end one roundish, entire, cmarginate, 

 veined; petiole a little longer than the leaflets, scarcely 

 hairy ; petiolules purple, hairy ; racemes axillary, half a 

 foot long ; flowers two or three at each tubercle, on very 

 short pedicels ; bractes two, roundish, caducous, at the 



base of the flower ; calix bell-shaped, smooth j corolla 

 large, purple. Native country unknown. 

 ** Erect. 



32. Dolichos Ensiformis ; Scymetar-podded Dolichos. Stem 

 suberect ; legumes scymetar-shaped, three-keeled ; seeds 

 arilled. Leaflets acute, wrinkled, smooth ; stipules bristle- 

 shaped, very small ; flowers violet-coloured, on many- 

 flowered axillary peduncles ; calix tubular, two-lipped, upper 

 lip bifid, lower three-toothed, shorter. There is a variety 

 with legumes twice as long, and flatter, with blunter 

 leaves, and other minute differences. Native of China and 

 Cochin-china, where it is cultivated for arbours, but not 

 for food. 



33. Dolichos Soja. Stems flexuose ; racemes axillary, 

 erect ; legumes pendulous, hispid, containing about two 

 seeds. Stem round at bottom and smooth ; above, striated, 

 very hirsute, a foot or more in height ; leaves petioled, hir- 

 sute ; leaflets petioled, ovate, obtuse, with a point, entire, 

 the middle leaves on a longer petiole, and larger, an inch in 

 length ; petiole striated, hirsute, a finger's length ; flowers 

 in short, erect, hirsute racemes ; subsessile, from three to 

 five together; corollas purple, scarcely bigger than the 

 calix. Native of the East Indies, Ceylon, and Japan. 



34. Dolichos Catiang. Legumes double, linear, some- 

 what erect. Stem annual, a foot and a half high, roundish, 

 rugged, branched; leaflets broad-lanceolate, smooth; com- 

 mon petiole long ; stipules lanceolate, minute ; flowers 

 subterminating, two or three together, on a very long 

 peduncle ; seeds oblong, ovate, somewhat compressed, 

 with a scar of a different colour. There are several 

 varieties differing in the colour of the flower and seed, 

 all of which are much cultivated for food. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



'35. Dolichos Bifloms ; Two- flowered Dolichos. Stem per- 

 ennial, even; peduncles two-flowered ; legumes erect. Root 

 an ovate brown tuber; leaves linear-lanceolate, quite entire, 

 veined, pubescent on both sides, subsessile ; flowers yel- 

 low, axillary. Native of China and India. 



36. Dolichos Repens ; Sea-side Dolichos. Stem creeping ; 

 leaves pubescent, ovate ; flowers racemed, in pairs; legumes 

 linear, columnar. This is a common plant by the sea-side, 

 in Jamaica : the root is a strong purgative. 



37. Dolichos Roseus. Stem creeping, ascending; leaflets 

 roundish, shining ; flowers in racemes ; legumes three- 

 keeled at the back. Native of Jamaica. 



38. Dolichos Fabaeformis ; Bean-shaped Dolichos. Stem 

 erect, angular ; leaves villose, glaucous ; legumes stiff and 

 straight, subquadrangular. Root annual; petioles three- 

 sided, channelled ; stipules linear, very acute, villose, erect, 

 permanent ; spikes axillary, solitary, erect, villose, shorter 

 than the petioles ; flowers subsessile, erect, purple. Native 

 of the East Indies. 



Doliocarpus ; a genus of the class Polyandria, order Mo- 

 nogynia. GKNKRIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth tive- 

 leaved ; leaflets oblong, rounded, concave, unequal, coloured, 

 permanent. Corolla: petals three, roundish, concave, plaited. 

 Stamina : filamenta very many, inserted into the receptacle, 

 apillary ; antherae compressed. Pistil: germen globular; 

 style long, incurved ; stigma compressed, flat, subbifid. 

 Pericarp : berry globular, one-celled, crowned with the 

 style. Seeds: two, arilled, oblong, rounded, flat on one 

 side, convex on the other. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: 

 five-leaved. Corolla : three-petalled, plaited. Stigma : sub- 

 bifid. Berry : globular, crowned with the style, one-celled, 



two-seeded. The species are, 



1. Doliocarpus Rolandri. Stem stiff and straight : leaves 



