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renniat; peduncles forming a head; legumes ft Iff and 
({might, linear. Root woody, perennial; flowers nod¬ 
ding a little, rofe-coloured with a purplifli keel ; feeds 
black. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
26. Dolichos polyftachios, or many-fpiked dolichos: 
fletn perennial; racemes very long ; pedicels in pairs; 
legumes acuminate, compreffed. Stem becoming flirub- 
by, often round, fmooth, very long. Native of Japan, 
where it is frequently cultivated for arbours; all'o of 
Virginia. 
27. Dolichos reticulatus, or netted-leaved dolichos: 
leaves ovate, acute, wrinkled, netted, villofe ; racemes 
few-flowered. Native of New South Wales. Introduced 
in 1781 by fir Jofeph Banks, hart. Shrubby. 
28. Dolichos luteus, or yellow dolichos: twining; 
flowers in a fort of fpike ; legumes fubcylindric, fmooth ; 
leaves roundifh-rhombed, obtufe, entire, fmooth. Native 
of Jamaica. 
29. Dolichos montanus, or mountain dolichos: flem 
(Imibby, climbing ; leaflets ovate-rhombed ; five fila¬ 
ments with oblong antheras ; and five alternate, roundifli. 
Native of the mountain woods of Cochin-china. This 
fpecies is very nearly allied to dolichos bulbofus and 
trilobus, efpecially in the tuberous root; linear legumes 
divided between the feeds; ftyles and fiigmas not pu- 
befcent. Had not Linnaeus ranged thefe under dolichos, 
Loureiro would have fuppofed that all three belonged 
to another genus. 
30. Dolichos haftatus, or fpear-leaved dolichos: flem 
procumbent; leaves fubhaftate ; peduncles many-flower¬ 
ed, ereft. Stem annual, long, round, branched ; feeds 
ovate, pale, efculent. Cultivated on the eaftern coaft of 
Africa. 
31. Dolichos rotundifolius, or round-leaved dolichos: 
legumes racemed, compreffed, fomewhat hairy, fword- 
lluped ; leaflets oval-roundi(h, fmooth. Dolichos altif- 
fimus differs from this in having the calyxes and wings 
villofe at the bafe. 
II. Ereft. 32. Dolichos enfiformis, or fcymitar-pod- 
ded dolichos : Item lube re ft ; legumes fcymitar-fiiaped, 
three-keeled; feeds arilled. Native of China and Co¬ 
chin-china ; cultivated for arbours, not for food. There 
is a variety, with legumes twice as long, and flatter, with 
blunter leaves, and other minute differences. Here are 
two fpecies, this and N° 8. bearing the fame name. They 
are, however, different; that probably from the Weft, 
this from the Eaft, Indies. 
33. Dolichos foja, or foja dolichos: ftems flexuofe ; 
racemes axillary, erect; legumes pendulous, hifpid, con¬ 
taining about two feeds. Stem round at the bottom and 
fmooth ; above, ftriated, very hirfute, a foot and more 
in height. Native of the Eaft Indies, Ceylon, Japan, &c. 
The feeds, which are ufually called inijo, in Japan, are 
put into foups, and are the moft common difli there, in- 
10much that the Japanefe frequently eat them three times 
a day. The foja of the Japanefe, which is preferred to the 
kitjap of the Chinefe, is prepared from thefe feeds, and 
is ufed in almoft all their difhes, inftead of common fait. 
The Chinefe alfo have a favourite difh made of thefe 
feeds, called teu hu, or tail hu, which looks like curd; 
and, though infipid in itfelf, yet with proper feafoning 
is agreeable and wholefome. 
34. Dolichos catiang, or Indian dolichos : legumes 
double, linear, fomewhat ereft. Stem annual, a foot 
and a half high, roundifli, rugged, branched. There are 
fevcral varieties, differing in the colour of the flower and 
feed, all which are much cultivated for food. Native of 
the Eaft Indies. 
35. Dolichos biflorus, or two-flowered dolichos : ftem 
perennial, even ; peduncles two-flowered ; legumes ereft. 
Stem fuffruticofe, a foot and a half high, ereft, branch¬ 
ed, hairy. Native of India and China. 
36. Dolichos repens, or fea-fide dolichos : ftem creep¬ 
ing; leaves pubefcent, ovate; flowers racemed, in pairs; 
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legumes linear, columnar. Common by the fea-fide in 
Jamaica. The root is a ftrong purgative. 
37. Dolichos rofeus, or rofe-coloured dolichos: ftem 
creeping, afcending; leaflets roundifli, (Lining; flowers 
in racemes; legumes three-keeled at the back. Native 
of Jamaica. 
38. Dolichos fabteformis, or bean-ftiaped dolichos: 
ftem ereft, angular; leaves villofe, glaucous; legumes 
ftiff and ftraight, fubquadrangular. Root annual; ftem 
Ample, with lines running down from the petiole, villofe, 
rugged, herbaceous, a foot high, the thicknefsofa quill. 
Native of the Eaft Indies. 
Propagation and Culture. Moft of the fpecies, coming 
from the Eaft and Weft Indies, are tender, and feldom 
perfeft their feeds in England. Being moftly annual 
plants, they are frequently loft in our ftoves, and re¬ 
covered again as the feeds are fent over. The 12th and 
13th are fometimes preferved in botanic gardens, efpe¬ 
cially the latter, whofe pods are clofely covered with 
(tinging hairs, commonly known by the title of cow-itch ; 
but thefe are too tender to thrive in the open air in this 
country, fo that whoever is defirous to have the plants, 
fliould fow their feeds in a hot-bed in March ; and, when 
the plants are come up, they fliould be each planted in 
a feparate pot, and plunged into the hot-bed again, be¬ 
ing careful to (Lade them till they have taken root; after 
which they lmift have frefli air every day admitted to 
them, in proportion to the warmth of the feafon ; and, 
when the plants are too tall to remain in the hot-bed, 
they fliould be removed into the bark-ftove, where, if 
they are allowed room to run, they will flower and per¬ 
feft their feeds. Several fpecies are cultivated in warm 
countries for the table, but in England feldom perfedt 
their feeds ; and, were they to thrive here as well as in 
the warm countries, they would be little efteemed, be- 
caufe we have much better forts in our gardens already ; 
for the fcarlet flowering kidney bean is preferable to all 
of them for eating, and deferves our care to cultivate it 
more than any other. See Glycine Triloba. 
DOI.ICHU'ROUS, adj. in poetry, having a fyliable 
too much at the end. Scott. 
DO'LIMAN, f. A long kind of veft worn by the 
Turks. Scott. 
DOLIOCAR'PUS, f. in botany; a genus of the clafs 
polyandria, order monogynia. The generic charafters 
are—Calyx : perianthium five-leaved ; leaflets oblong- 
rounded, concave, unequal, coloured, permanent. Co¬ 
rolla: petals three, roundifli, concave, plaited. Stamina: 
filaments very many, inferted into the receptacle, capil¬ 
lary ; antheras compreffed. Piftillum : germ glo'bular; 
ftyle long, incurved; ftigma compreffed, flat, fubbifid. 
Pericarpium : berry globular, one-celled, crowned with 
the ftyle. Seeds: two, arilled, oblorrg-rounded, flat on 
one fide, convex on the other.— EJfcntial CharaEler. Ca¬ 
lyx, five-leaved ; corolla, three-petalled, plaited ; ftigma 
fubbifid ; berry globular, crowned with the ftyle, one- 
celled, two-feeded. 
Species. 1. Doliocarpus Rolandri, or Rolander’s dolio- 
carpus : ftem ftiff and ftraight; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
toothed ; flowers terminating. This grows to a ftirub ; 
ftem and branches upright; leaves hanging ; of an oval- 
lanceolate fliape, and dentated. 
2. Doliocarpus major, or great doliocarpus : ftem 
fcandent; leaves ovate, toothed ; peduncles lateral, one- 
flowered. The flowers are aromatic, but rather naufe- 
ous ; the berriqs of this plant are pernicious; ftem (len¬ 
der and flexuofe ; branches at right angles; leaves 
Ipreading. 
3. Doliocarpus calinea, or calinea doliocarpus : ftem 
fcandent; leaves ovate, quite entire; flowers axillary, in 
bundles. A fhrub, with feveral knotty fpreading twigs, 
fcattering over the neighbouring trees ; the branches are 
garniflied with alternate, oval, (Lining green, leaves ter¬ 
minating in a point; the largeft four inches long. The 
flowers 
