Lablab
(Lablab is the Arabic name of Convolvulus). ORD. Leguminosae. This genus contains a few species, the one best known being that described below, which is widely cultivated throughout many tropical countries as a food plant; its pods and seeds being eaten as are kidney beans and haricots amongst us. For culture, see Dolichos.
L. vulgaris (common). fl. violet. June. l., leaflets roundish-ovate, ending in a point furnished with a bristle. India, 1794. Stove climber. Now included under Dolichos, the correct name being D. Lablab (under which name it is figured in B. M. 896). SYN. Lablavia vulgaris (S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 236).