150 GAEDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



Lablab cultratum. 



A native vegetable of the same character as the last, of 

 which the following description is given by Dr. Roxburgh : 



" All the varieties of this species are cultivated during the cold 

 season in the gardens and about the doors of the natives, forming 

 not only cool shady arbours, but furnishing them with an excellent 

 pulse for their curries, &c., in their tender pods. In short, these 

 and their varieties of L. vulgare may be called the Kidney Beans of 

 the Asiatics. 



" a. Eectum : Panch-seem : pods straight ; seeds reddish ; flowers 

 white, large. 



" ft. Falcatum minus : Bdghonuko-seem : pods falcate, size of the 

 little finger ; flowers white, largish. 



" y. Falcatum majus : Dood-pituli-seem : pods falcate, much longer 

 than in ft ; flowers purple. 



" 8. Gladiatum, flore albo : Sada-jamai-puli-seem : pods gladiate- 

 clavate, length of the little finger ; flowers white. 



" e. Gladiatum, flore purpureo : Pituli-jamai-puli-seem : pods as 

 in y ; flowers reddish purple. 



" 0. Macrocarpum : Gychi-seem : the largest of all ; pods six to 

 eight inches long ; seeds black, with a white eye ; flowers red." 



Psophoearpus tetragonolobus. 



GOA-BEAN CHEVAUX-DE FEISE BEAN. 



Chdri-Jconi-Seem. 



A native vegetable : bears a curious four-sided pod, six or 

 eight inches long and half an inch wide, with a leafy kind of 

 fringe running along the length of its four corners. The pod is 

 cooked whole, in the manner of French Beans, to which it is far 

 inferior in flavour. 



Though as a vegetable of little value, the plant is well worth 

 a place in the garden, being ornamental for the large blue 

 flowers it bears in the Cold season, as well as for the effect 

 of its curious pods hanging upon it. The seed is sown in the 

 Bains. 



Faba vulgaris. 



BROAD BEAN. 



Seem. 



Of this vegetable, which possesses in India little of that 

 peculiar flavour for which it is esteemed in Europe, there are 



