An annual species grown in India as fodder, and of which the seeds are eatable, though but little valued. The Hindustani name is _mout_, among the Sikhs _moth_. It is somewhat like _Ph. trilobus_, which is cultivated for the seed. _Ph. aconitifolius_ is wild in British India from Ceylon to the Himalayas.[1724] The absence of a Sanskrit name, and of different names in modern Indian languages, points to a recent cultivation. +Three-lobed Kidney Bean+—_Phaseolus trilobus_, Willdenow. One of the most commonly cultivated species in India;[1725] at least in the last few years, for Roxburgh,[1726] at the end of the eighteenth century, had only seen it wild. All authors agree in considering it as wild from the foot of the Himalayas to Ceylon. It also exists in Nubia, Abyssinia, and Zambesi;[1727] it is not said whether wild or cultivated. Piddington gives a Sanskrit name, and several names in modern Indian languages, which shows that the species has been cultivated, or at least known for three thousand years. +Green Gram+, or +Múng+—_Phaseolus mungo_, Linnæus. A species commonly cultivated in India and in the Nile Valley. The considerable number of varieties, and the existence of three different names in the modern languages of India, point to a cultivation of one or two thousand years, but there is no Sanskrit name.[1728] In Africa it is probably recent. Anglo-Indian botanists agree that it is wild in India. +Lablab+, or +Wall+—_Dolichos Lablab_, Linnæus. This species is much cultivated in India and tropical Africa. Roxburgh counts as many as seven varieties with Indian names. Piddington quotes in his _Index_ a Sanskrit name, _schimbi_, which recurs in modern languages. Its culture dates perhaps from three thousand years. Yet the species was not anciently diffused in China, or in Western Asia and Egypt; at least, I can find no trace of it. The little extension of these edible _Leguminosæ_ beyond India in ancient times is a singular fact. It is possible that their cultivation is not of ancient date. The lablab is undoubtedly wild in India, and also, it is said, in Java.[1729] It has become naturalized from cultivation in the Seychelles.[1730] The indications of authors are not positive enough to say whether it is wild in Africa.[1731] +Lubia+—_Dolichos Lubia_, Forskal. This species, cultivated in Europe under the name of _lubia_, _loubya_, _loubyé_, according to Forskal and Delile,[1732] is little known to botanists. According to the latter author it exists also in Syria, Persia, and India; but I do not find this in any way confirmed in modern works on these two countries. Schweinfurth and Ascherson[1733] admit it as a distinct species, cultivated in the Nile Valley. Hitherto no one has found it wild. No _Dolichos_ or _Phaseolus_ is known in the monuments of ancient Egypt. We shall see from the evidence of the common names that these plants were probably introduced into Egyptian agriculture after the time of the Pharaohs.