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" sport" to white, and the commonest white kind, 

 the lablab or bonny- vis (Dolichos Lablab) , that pro- 

 duces our local green peas, often turns to lilac or purple. 

 When found wild, however, it is generally white, and 

 may be known by the broadly ovate and pointed 

 leaflets of its trifoliate leaves, and the numerous small 

 protuberances that roughen the upper edge of the pod. 

 It is familiar as a cultivated plant, trailing on fences in 

 most provision grounds. A white phaseolus or cinabone, 

 the sugar-bean (Phaseolus lunatus) , may be recognised 

 by the spirally twisted keel, characteristic of this genus; 

 and the bat's- wing-pea (Lourea vespertilionis) , rare 

 here, a small erect pea, with white corollas and single 

 bilobed leaflets, is said to occur in che Gardens, but I 

 have never found it near town. 



The small tree, A^ati grandiflora, with numerously 

 pinnate leaves, pendulous pods a foot or more in length, 

 and very large white or rosy papilionaceous flowers, a 

 good three inches long, is thoroughly naturalised in many 

 parts of the colony, but only occurs in town as an intro- 

 duced plant. A good specimen is near the third lake 

 in the Gardens, about forty yards from the wooden 

 bridge passing to the central avenue. Lastly, the small 

 white-flowered liquorice vine or crab-eye vine is 

 a climbing and twining plant with long, narrow, 

 pinnate leaves, and pods containing several bright 

 scarlet seeds with a black spot at the end, often 

 used for children's necklaces. It may be seen 

 climbing on the roof of the summer house in the 

 central avenue. 



Here colour ceases to be a sufficiently definite guide, 

 and we may conveniently divide the rest ot the papili- 



