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P. multifldrus, Spanish Bean, Scarlet Kunnek when red-flowered ; 

 twining high, with the showy flowers bright scarlet, or white, or mixed, in 

 peduncled racemes surpassing the leaves ; pods broadly linear, straight or 

 a little curved ; seeds large, tumid, white or colored. 



* * * Exotic species, cultivated in greenhouses for ornament. ^ 



P. Carac^lla, Snail-Flower. Stem twining extensively, rather woody 

 below, from a tuberous root ; leaflets rhombic-ovate, taper-pointed ; racemes 

 longer than the leaf ; flowers showy, 2' long, white and purple, the standard as 

 well as the very long-snouted keel spirally coiled, giving somewhat the appear- 

 ance of a snail-shell. 



32. DOLICHOS, BLACK BEAN, &c. (Old Greek name of a Bean, 

 meaning elongated, perhaps from the tall-climbing stems. ) 



D. Iiablab, Egyptian or Black Bean, cult, from India, for ornament 

 and sometimes for food, is a smooth twiner, with elongated racemes of showy 

 violet, purple, or white flowers, 1' long, and thick and broadly oblong pointed 

 pods ; seeds black or tawny with a white sear. ® 



D. Sinensis, China Bean, var. melanophth.almus, Black-eyed 

 Bean, with long peduncles bearing only 2 or 3 (white or pale) flowers at the 

 end, the beans (which are good) white with a black circle round the scar, is 

 occasionally met with. 



33. GALACTIA, MILK-PEA. (From a Greek word for millcy, which 

 these plants are not. ) There are several other species in the Southern At- 

 lantic. States ; a rare one has pinnate leaves. Fl. summer, y. 



G. glabella. Sandy sqil from New Jersey S. ; prostrate, nearly smooth, 

 with rather rigid ovate-oblong leaflets, their upper sui-fece shining, a few rather 

 large rose-purple flowers on a peduncle not exceeding the leaves, and a 4 - 6- 

 seeded at length smoothish pod. 



Gr. mollis. Sandy barrens, from Maryland S. : spreading, seldom twining, 

 soft-downy and hoary, even to the 8 - 10-seeded pod ; racemes long-peduncled, 

 many-flowered ; leaflets oval. 



34. AMPHICAIlP.aiA, HOG-PEA-NUT. (Name from Greek words 

 meaning double-fruited, alluding to the two kinds of pod. ) 1}. 



A. mouoica. A slender much-branched twiner, with brownish-hairy 

 stems, leaves of 3 rhombic-ovate thin leaflets, and numerous small purplish 

 flowers in clustei'ed drooping racemes, besides the more fertile subterranean 

 ones ; the turgid pods of the latter hairy : herbage greedily fed upon by cattle : 

 fl. late summer and autumn. 



35. CENTROSEMA, SPURREP BUTTERFLY-PEA. (Name from 

 Greek words meaning spurred standard. ) y. 



C. Virginltoum. Sandy woods, chiefly S. : trailing and low twining, 

 slender, roughish with minute hairs ; leaflets varying from ovate-oblong to 

 linear, very veiny, shining ; the 1 -4-flowered peduncles shorter than the leaves ; 

 the showy violet-purple flowers 1' or l^' long, in summer. 



36. CLITOEIA, BUTTERFLY-PEA. (Derivation obscure.) ■}}. 



C. Mari&na,"our only species, in dry ground from New Jersey S. : smooth,- 

 with erect or slightly twining stem (l°-3° high), ovate-oblong leaflets pale 

 beneath, very showy light bine flowers 2' long, single or 2 - 3 together on a 

 short peduncle, and a few-seeded straight pod : fl. summer, 



37. HARDENBEEGIA. (Named for an Austrian botanist.) Austra- 

 lian plants, y 



H. monopll^^lla, a choice greenhouse plant, has leaves of a single ovate 

 or lanceolate leaflet 2' or 3' long, and slender racemes of small violet-purple 

 flowers ; whole plant smooth. 



