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cemes longer than the leaf subspiked, standard con- 
cave halt the length of the wings, legumes tereti-sub- 
ulate. — De Cand. 
P. erectus lathyroides, flore amplo coccineo, Sloane , I. 183. 
t. 116. f. 1. — P. minor erectus pratcnsis, siliquis gracilibus, 
Browne , 291 — P. lathyroides, Swartz , Obs. 280. 
I-IAB. Common in damp situations. 
FL. Principally towards the end of the year. 
A foot or more in height: branches simple, erect, terete, 
glabrous. Leaflets glabrous above, pubescent beneath : petioles 
angulated, coloured. Stipules acuminate. Peduncles long, 
terete, pubescent, many-flowered. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 
generally in pairs, blood-coloured. Upper lip of the calyx 
bidentate : lower 3-dentate. Standard clawed, subrotund, emar- 
ginate, concave, reflected, pale red : wings larger than the stan- 
dard, deep crimson : keel whitish. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary 
terete : style subulate : stigma incrassated, pubescent beneath. 
Legume cylindrical, many-seeded : seeds subrotund, brownish. 
The flowers are rather showy, and might claim for the plant 
a place in the garden. 
XXV. Dolichos. 
Calyx bibracteolated, campanulate, 5-dentate, with 
2 of the teeth approximate or partially coalescing at 
the base. Standard subrotund, sulcated with 2-4 
diverging callosities at the base ; wings oblong, ob- 
tuse ; keel incurved nearly at a right angle, obtuse, 
neither spirally twisted, nor turned to one side in the 
slightest degree. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1): 
anthers subrotund. Style compressed, bearded be- 
neath from the middle to the apex. Legume com- 
pressed, linear, bivalved, partially furnished with cel- 
lulose isthmi between the seeds ; valves neither winged 
nor nerve-bearing : seeds ovate, more or less com- 
pressed, with the hilum oval small. — De Cand. 
Herbaceous or suffruticose, generally twining: cauline sti- 
pules acute ; leaves pinnato-3-foliate ; leaflets stipellated ; ra- 
cemes axillary. — The name was applied by Dioscorides to a 
plant, supposed to be the common Kidney-bean. 
1. Dolichos tuberosus. Yam-Bean. 
Stem fruticose twining, root tuberose, leaflets sub- 
rotund acuminate, racemes pedunculated elongated, 
