The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

Bean Tribe

Bean Tribe.

Beans are largely cultivated and employed similarly to the foregoing. Lablab vulgaris and Doliehos sinensis are those chiefly used as articles of human food. Of the first mentioned, the Lablab, there are a number of varieties, all of them favourites.

177. Whal, Lablab vulgaris.