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25. legumixos^:. 
y. albiflora ; fl. white. — DC. 1. c. ; Wight 1. c. 353. 
Doliclios Bengalensis Jacq. Hort. Vind. ii. t. 124. 
Subv. 1. Seeds yellowish-tawny speckled with dull red or 
cinnamon. 
2. Seeds dull red or cinnamon speckled with yellowish- 
tawny. 
Shr. per. Mad. cult. reg. 1, f. Fences around cultivated 
ground or gardens in or about Funchal, Machico, &c. Through- 
out the year. — A large coarse twining pi. forming thick mats of 
stout interlacing branches, with habit and foliage of Phaseolus. 
Lfts. temate rounded-rhomboidal scarcely acute not acuminate, 
3-4 in. long and broad, membranous but somewhat coarse and 
rough or scabrous, slightly pubescent on both sides especially 
along the veins and edges, rather dull gr. L. -stalks upwards 
and thick partial stalks pubescent. Stip. and stipels small linear- 
lanceolate acuminate spreading. Fl. purple in /3, in y. white 
turning as they fade cream-col., in distinct thickly-clustered 
whorls on round-stalked axillary 1-leafed erect smooth stiff 
rac. not longer than their attendant single temate leaf, which is 
placed a little way up the stalk of the rac. Pedic. short and, like 
the cal. and rachis, a little pubescent at first, then smooth. Cal. 
tubular-campanulate upper lobe broad faintly notched, 3 lower 
distinct ovate acute.; the 2 opposite bractlets at its base as long 
as its tube, oblong or oblong-oval rather obtuse adpressed de- 
ciduous. Standard broad subreflexed, lilac-purple, or in y. 
white ; 2 upper lobes or appendages at its base oblong spoon- 
shaped, standing erect and free upwards like a pair of narrow 
ears, tightly and closely embracing the upper spurs or borders 
of the wings, as the paler or white 2 lower callosities or 
appendages, which are indeed merely spurs of the 2 upper, em- 
brace the base of the keel and ovary, the claw of the standard 
itself arching strongly back from them as in Doliclios lignosus L. 
Wings bright rose-purple or in y. w., closely adpressed and 
folding over each other and the keel, to which they also cohere 
at their base ; not at all u spreading ” as described by DC. 1. c., 
or reflexed as in D. lignosus. Keel quite pale, or in y. white, 
abruptly bent up at a right angle, or often less, at the origin of 
the free part of the stain. jStam. 1/9, the uppermost always in 
great part cohering to the sheath of the other 9, with its fil. 
thick or stout and winged or dilated at the base. Style stout 
compressed pale gr. fringed and bearded upwards on the upper 
side and velvety-pubescent all round towards the indistinctly 
capitate stigma. Ov. velvety, slightly hairy along the upper 
edge, with a very short minute cremate tube (torus) sheathing 
its short stalk. Pods spreading horizontally not pendulous, 
nearly sessile large broad flat, subfalcate, yet with the upper 
margin straight, the lower curved, 2^-3 in. long, 1 in. broad, 
