1918] FREEMAN—HYACINTH BEAN 521 
Common footstalk roundish, channeled above, swelling and purplish at the 
base; partial ones very short, swelled, incurved. Leaflets rhomboid, elongated, 
acute, entire, obsoletely 3-nerved; bright green and shining above; glaucous 
beneath. Stipulae entire, sharp, somewhat triangular, downy on the margin, 
dark purple at the base; of which 2 larger ones are placed at the bottom of the 
common footstalks, and 2 smaller, lanceolate, at the insertion of the partial 
footstalks. Clusters axillary, solitary, erect, each having from 3 to 6 flowers 
in a little head. Common flowerstalk simple, very long, striated, angular in 
the upper part; partial ones generally 2 together, short, downy, single-flowered. 
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Fic. 6.—Dolichos lignosus: from photograph of colored plate in Curtis’ Bot. 
Mag. 2:380. 1797 
Bracteae lanceolate, acute, hairy. Flowers somewhat eA rose hee sen 
with a purplish keel. Calyx smooth, thickly ciliated in the m Pod an 
inch long, a little recurved, brownish, smooth. Seeds black. 
According to ArTon, this beautiful plant was introduced from 
the French gardens to our own in 1776. It is easily propagated 
by seed, and in a stove produces abundance of flowers during the 
summer. 
A little study of Smrrn’s plate and descriptions shows that it 
agrees very closely with the plate and description of D. lignosus of 
LINNAEUs and that it cannot possibly be the D. lignosus of JAcQUIN. 
Five years later, in Curtis’ Bot. Mag. 11:380. 1797, is found 
a description and plate of D. lignosus, which is reproduced in fig. 6. 
