Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-             Plate No. 896 

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-COMMON_NAMES-Black-seeded Dolichos
-GENUS-Dolichos 
-SPECIES-Dolichos lablab 
-CLASS-Diadelphia 
-ORDER-Decandria 
-AUTHORITY-Linnaeus 
-MODERN_GENUS-Lablab
-MODERN_SPECIES-Lablab purpureus 
-MODERN_FAMILY- Fabaceae alt. Leguminosae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae.
-PLANT_TYPE- "Is usually considered a stove plant, but is marked by Mr. Donn as a 
             hardy annual."
-COLOR-
-SEASON- A Greenhouse "stove plant"
-NATIVE_REGION- "Although considered a native of Egypt, ...was probably
                introduced from Europe."
-ZONE-9 
-SOURCE-The Botanical Magazine 
-VOLUME-23 
-PUB_DATE-1806 
-REISSUED-__ 
-EDITOR-John Sims 
-ARTIST-S. Edwards, Sansum 
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