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Tie Natural Hijlory f Yamaica. 177 
V. Phafeolus maximus perennis, floribns fpicatis, albis, {peciofts filiquis brevibus, 
latis, ferscn album hilo aitido fre tircumdante. Cat. p. 67. Yab.113. Fig.n, 2,2. 
Phafeolus Famaiceafis G& Bartadeafis Aigyptiaco fimilis, femine ex toto ebaruci ni- 
roris. Pluken. Almag. p. 29%. Boaavift of Ligon. p. 22. 
This Phafcoles has a very {lrong, round Stem at irs Root, which fends out 
a great many round, green, firiated, jong Branches, climbing, and cover- 
ing any Trees, Hedges, or low Houles they come near, fending out here 
and there Leaves and Flowers, which have a liecle knob at their F oot-Staiks, 
parting from the main Stem. The Leaves are always three, fet on a long 
Foot-Stalk, large, woolly, and in every thing like the others of this Kind. 
The Flowers come outon cach fide of a Foot long Spike. They are white, 
papylionaceous, and make a very comely fhow on Hedges or Houfes. After 
each of thefe follows a Pod two Inches long, and half an Inch broad, a 
little crooked, clay coloured, membranaceous, and containing four or five 
white, roundifh, comprefs’d Peafe, haying a long white A7i/ns or Eye, almoft 
furrounding the whole Bean. ; 
They are planted here for Food as well as Ornament. They make a 
pretty appearance in Planters Gardens. | 
One Root will laft a long time, and yield many Difhes of Peafe, which, 
when eaten green, are not unpleafant. : 
-Thefe Beans rofted, as Coffee, aiid thé Powder mixed with Rum-Puach, 
as Nutmeg-Powder ufes to be, will intoxicate the Drinkers of it for fome 
time. wei 
VIL Phafcolus maximus perennis, flovitus fpicatis albis (peciofis, filiqués brevi- 
bus latis, femen ruffam hilo albido fere circumdante. Cat. p. 68. Tab. 113. Figg. 
Lablab femine fubrubro, Alp. p.74. Vefling. p. 24. Leplap-alterum mfum. Cluf. 
vars pl. biff. lib. 6. p.227. Phafeolas ABgyptiacus five tablab {ecundum femine 
zufo: C.B.. pine p. 340. Phafeclas Lablad fpadicens hilo longo albo. J.B, tow. 2. 
p. 271- Red Bona Vift. bas, erud : 
This Phufeolus feems not to differ ftom onciI had froma Bale of Coffee, 
came from Arabia or Egypt, and therefore 1 take it to be the fame with the 
Lablab, and am very apt'to believe this, with reddifh Beans, and the black 
to be only varieties of the fame Plant. Profper Alpiaus deferibing this to have 
a long Pod, gave me adoubt about it, but fince feeing one among Coffee, 
and the Pod by Clu/ias to agree With this; I think ic the fame with the above 
defcribed of the Weft-Indies. : 
This is much the fame wich the foregoing, only fmallerin every part, and 
the Beans or Peafe are not white but red. | 
They are fometimes planted, though not fo generally lik’d as the white 
Kind, becaufe of their greater flatulency. nud : 
The eyptians ule them for Food, and they are mot lefs pleafant than 
our Beans to the tat. Women ufe their: Decodtion with Saffron, ad excitan- 
dos menfes. vis likewife-helpful for:the-Cough, difficulty of breathing, “and 
to grovoke fupprefs'd Urim © Alpsca 00% 983 ae tarp de - 
MIL Phafeolus maximns,: filiqua enfiforms nerois inficnita, & femine albo, mem- 
branwlh. inelufo, Cat. p. 68. Tab, wxq. Fig. 15:2, °5. Phafeotus Indicus filiqua 
magna falchta; quaternis in darfo aervis; Cwm eminentiis plurimis verracefis, feo 
cundim leveitudinem iafignita, fratiuoamplo niwer,- hilo crotto. Plaken. Alm. 
p.%9z. -. Horfe: Beans: | | | 
This fends out on every fide of its Root, for fome Feets diftance, fe- 
veral Stalks; ‘which are firorig, and climbing about any thing they come near, 
at every Inches diftancefénding forch Leavesand Flowers. The Leaves are 
LZ , always 
