PLATE CCCXLI. 
PHASEOLUS 
Snail-Flower Kidney-Bean. ee 
CLASS. XVII. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives; in two sets. 
2 GENERIC 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, bilabia- 
tum ; labio fuperiori emarginato, inferiore 
ridentato. 
t 
Corotra papillionacea. 
Vexillum, cordatum, obtufum, oh 
tum, reclinatum, lateri us reflexi 
Hie. ovatee, ih sa vexilli, asia 
longis infidentes. 
arina, angufta, fpiraliter contra folem 
revoluta. 
Stamina. Filamenta diadelpha, (fimplex et 
novemfidum) intra carinam, fpiralia. An- 
therze decem, fimplices. 
PistiLLum. Germen oblongum, compreffum 
villofum. Stylus siformis, fpiraliter in- 
flexus, fuperne pubefcens igma obtu- 
fum, craffiufculum, villofum 
og sae oes longum, rectum, co- 
riaceum, obtufum cum acu 
SEMINA ssnifedads, shiva. comprefia. 
CARACALLA, 
ORDER IV, — (oa 
Ten Fee 
CHARACTER, | 
Emracement. Cup one leaf, two-lfeved 
lip notched at the end, lower three-oothed 
Bossom butterfly-fhaped. ‘ 
Standard, heart-thaped, blunt, peti ig 
the top, reclined, reflexed at 
Wings, egg- thaped, = length of the Stand- 
ard, terminating in claws, 
Keck natrow, twifted fpirally contrary to 
the fun. : 
Cuives. Threads in two fets, (fimple and nine- 
cleft,) within the keel, {pital Tips ten, 
imp 
Porntat, Seed-bud oblong, flattened, hairy. 
Shaft thread-fhaped, fpirally bent inwards, 
downy above. Summit blunt, thickith, 
fale 
airy. 
SEED vesseL. A long pod, ftraight, leathery, 
blunt with a poi 
Seeps Sidney thine, es flattened, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 7 
fa 
Phafeolus caule i i: vexillis, carinaque fpi- Kidney-bean with a twining ftem; 
raliter convolutis. =e a d keel fpirally twifted from the gs to 
the right. yf 
SSuNEERene commen? , 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Cup. 
2. The Standard. 
3. One of the wings, fhewn from thé, outfide. - PF 
4. One of the wings, fhewn from the | infide. _ Ce 
5. The Kee 
6. The Ch eens 
7. The Pointal, 
¢ t not as 
a fngular vegetable production, we have given a fpecimen of this mot curious flower, bu 
apeas as it is, certainly, rather common, the feeds ng frequen 
ntry it was first introduced from Brafi Lin South 
(1090. It isa climbing plant and mutt be kept in the hothoufe, is’ ‘propagated 
—- to the height of 12 or 14 feet, and fhould be 
h the re 
3 3 they are very fragrant, but have not much ‘gage, and the plant has i 
Temblonce of the common fcarlet kidn ney-bean, 
Por- 
Jy been ought to us from “# 
: ' by feds cuttings, 2 
‘a 
be planted in rich earth. The flowers 
