LABLAB VULGARIS. 
COMMON LABLAB. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSA5. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
E. Indies. 
6 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Annual. 
in 1794. 
No. 404. 
Lablab is the Arabic name of a climber, supposed 
to be the convolvulus. Our present plant is the 
Dolichos lablab of Linneus. His genus Dolichos 
contained many plants which it has been found 
indispensable to separate from it, on account of the 
disparity of their legumes or seed vessels. 
Most of these plants are natives of warm climates, 
such as the East and West Indies, and consequently 
have been retained amongst us as occupants of the 
stove or greenhouse. The efforts, however, of the 
admirers of the open flower garden, have of late 
been crowned with great success. Many of those 
plants which formerly were only known as natural 
curiosities, in a hot air cabinet, are now seen, during 
our summer months, to luxuriate in the borders of 
the flower garden, or mounds of the lawn ; where 
their possessors, at the same time as they imbibe 
pleasure in the contemplation of their beauty, imbibe 
health in a pure and exhilarating atmosphere. 
The Lablab vulgaris, is now successfully culti- 
vated, by raising seedling plants, in a hotbed, and 
turning them out, at the end of May, into a rich 
soil, in a warm situation. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 291. 
Class. 
D1ADELPUIA. 
