Phaseohts.] Legnminosce . 69 



A stout woody twiner, branches wide-spreading, the young 

 ones covered with dense soft fulvous hair; 1. large, rachis 

 3-4 in., fulvous-hairy, stip. small, roundish attached by their 

 centre, lflts. 4-6 in., ovate or oval, rounded at base, somewhat 

 attenuate, subacute, apiculate, glabrous above when mature, 

 softly silky beneath ; fl. about f in., numerous, on short ped., 

 2 or 3 together on very short incurved swollen branchlets of a 

 narrow elongated racemose panicle 12-18 in. long, bracts 

 below ped. much longer than them, linear, recurved, bracts 

 beneath fl. 2, small, roundish ; cal. fulvous-pubescent ; pod 

 about 5 in. by 2 in. wide, slightly falcate, at first hairy, glabrous 

 when mature; seeds 2 or 3, separated by spongy partitions, 

 orbicular, \-\\ in., much compressed, black shining. 



Moist low country; very rare. About Kaduwela near Colombo, the 

 only known locality ; found by W. Ferguson in 1863. Fl. pale violet. 



Also in E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya, and Trop. Africa, and America, 

 but not in the Indian Peninsula. 



The seed is very like that of a Mucuna. 



33. PHASEOLUS, L. 



Erect, prostrate or twining herbs, 1. 3-foliolate, with stipels, 

 fl. in axillary racemes, bracts conspicuous; cal. campanulate, 

 2 upper segm. connate, nearly equal or lowest one longest; 

 keel-pet. extended into a long stiff beak curved round into a 

 circle; stam. diadelphous, anth. uniform ; style curved round 

 with the keel,conspicuously bearded along the inner side below 

 the very oblique stigma; pod linear, somewhat compressed or 

 nearly cylindrical, with partitions between the numerous 

 seeds. — Sp. 60; 15 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Stip. attached by their base ; fl. not yellow. 

 Twining. 



Fl. pink I. P. ADENANTHUS. 



Fl. violet-purple 2. P. Grahamianus. 



Erect ; fl. red 3. P. SEMIERECTUS. 



Stip. peltately attached ; fi. yellow. 

 Lflts. more or less 3-lobed (see also 7). 



Stip. large, oval 4- P- TRILOBUS. 



Stip. small, oblong 5. P. ACONITIFOLIUS. 



Lflts. not lobed ''except sometimes 7) 



Pod with long silky hair . . . .6. I'. Max. 



Pod with short fulvous hair . . . . 7. 1'. TRINERVIUS. 



Pod glabrous 8. P. calcaratus. 



Two species are commonly cultivated in native ^;irdens under the 

 name of' Dambala' or more usually the Dutch name 'Bonchi,' P. lunatus, 

 L. and J', vulgaris, L., the former under several varieties. Both are 



