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P L A T E CCCXLI.
P H A S E O L U S CARACALLA.
Siiail-Flower Kidney-Bean.
C L A S S XVll.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
O R D E R IV.
Chives in two sets. Ten Chives.
GENERIC CHAEACTEK.
CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, bilabiatum
; labio fuperiori emarginato, inferiore
tridentato.
C O R O L L A papillionacea.
Fexillum, cordatura, obtufum, emarginatum,
reclinatum, lateribus refiexis.
Alw, ovatEe, longitudine vexilli, unguibus
longis infidentes.
Carina, anguila, fpiraliter contra folem
revoluta.
STAMINA. Filamenta diadJpha, (fimplex et
noverafidum) intra carinara, fpiralia. Ant
h e r s decern, firaplices.
PisTiLLUM. Germen oblongura, compreflbm
villofum. Stylus filiformis, fpiraliter inflexus,
fuperne pubefcens. Stigma obtufum,
craffiufculura, villofum.
P E B I C A R P I U M . Legumen longura, reiSlum, coriaceura,
obtufum cura acumine.
SEMINA reniformia, oblonga, coraprefla.
EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, two-lipped, upper
lip notched at the end, lower three-toothed.
BLOSSOM butterfly-fiiaped.
Standard, heart-fliaped, blunt, notched at
the top, reclined, reflexed at the the fides.
JVings, egg-lhaped, the length of the Standard,
terminating in long claws.
Keel, narrow, twifted I'pirally contrary to
the fun.
CHIVES. Threads in two fets, (firaple and ninecleft,)
within the keel, fpiral. Tips ten,
iiraple.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud oblong, flattened, hairy.
Shaft thread-ihaped, fpirally bent inwards,
downy above. Summit blunt, thickifli,
hairy.
SEED VESSEL. A long pod, flraight, leathery,
blunt with a point.
SEEDS kidney-fliaped, oblong, flattened.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Phafeolus caule volubili j vexillis, carinaque fpiraliter
convolutis.
Kidney-bean with a twining flem; ftandards
and keel fpirally twifted from the left to
the right.
P.EFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup.
2. The Standard.
3. One of the wings, (liewn from the outfide.
4. One of the wings, fliewn from the infide.
5. The Keel.
6. The Chives.
7. The Pointai.
As a Angular vegetable produftion, we have given a fpecimen of this moft curious flower, but not as
a novelty, as it is, certainly, rather common, the feeds having frequently been brought to us from Portugal,
(to which country it was first introduced from Brafil in South America), ever fince the year
1690. It is a climbing plant and rauft be kept in the hothoufe, is propagated by feeds or cuttings,
grows to the height of 12 or 14 feet, and flioukl be planted in rich earth. The flowers are produced
about Auguft: they are very fragrant, but have not much duration, and the plant has much the refemblance
of the common fcarlet kidney-bean.
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