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cemes longer than the leaf subspiked, standard con- 

 cave half the length of the wings, legumes tereti-sub- 

 ulate. De Cand. 



P. erectus lathyroides, flore amplo coccineo, Sloane, I. 183. 

 t. 116. f. 1. P. minor erectus pratensis, siliquis gracilibus, 

 Browne, 291 P. lathyroides, Swartz, Obs. 28U. 



HAB. Common in damp situations. 



FL. Principally towards the end of the year. 



A foot or more in height : branches simple, erect, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaflets glabrous above, pubescent beneath : petioles 

 angulated, coloured. Stipules acuminate. Peduncles long, 

 terete, pubescent, many-flowered. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 

 generally in pairs, blood-coloured. Upper lip of the calyx 

 bidentate : lower 3-dentate. Standard clawed, subrotund, emar- 

 ginate, concave, reflected, pale red : wings larger than the stan- 

 dard, deep crimson : keel whitish. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary 

 terete : style subulate : stigma incrassated, pubescent beneath. 

 Legume cylindrical, many-seeded : seeds subrotund, brownish. 



The flowers are rather showy, and might claim for the plant 

 a place in the garden. 



XXV. DOLICHOS. 



Calyx bibracteolated, campanulate, 5-dentate, with 

 2 of the teeth approximate or partially coalescing at 

 the base. Standard subrotund, sulcated with 24 

 diverging callosities at the base ; wings oblong, ob- 

 tuse ; keel incurved nearly at a right angle, obtuse, 

 neither spirally twisted, nor turned to one side in the 

 slightest degree. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1) : 

 anthers subrotund. Style compressed, bearded be- 

 neath from the middle to the apex. Legume com- 

 pressed, linear, bivalved, partially furnished with cel- 

 lulose isthmi between the seeds ; valves neither winged 

 nor nerve-bearing : seeds ovate, more or less com- 

 pressed, with the hilum oval small. De Cand. 



Herbaceous or suffruticose, generally twining: cauline sti- 

 pules acute ; leaves pinnato-3-foliate ; leaflets stipellated ; ra- 

 cemes axillary. The name was applied by Dioscorides to a 

 plant, supposed to be the 'common Kidney-bean. 



1. Dolichos tuberosus. Yam-Bean. 



Stem fruticose twining, root tuberose, leaflets sub- 

 rotund acuminate, racemes pedunculated elongated, 



