178 Lhe Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
always three together, ftanding on the fame two Inches long Foot-Stalk, which 
at parting from the Stem, hasa {welling, each Leaf is larger, of a darker 
green colour than the other Phafcoli, {mooth, having the Ribs appearing as 
thofe of the Zrifolium paludofum. The Flowers ftand {everal together on the 
fame two Inches long Foot-Stalk. They are clofe papylionaceous, and of a bluifh 
purple colour, after which follows a Foot and an half long Pod : {trong, of a 
clay colour, a little crooked, or fhap’d like a Scymiter, being an Inch broad, 
not altogether comprefs'd, but a little roundith, having on each Valve, with. 
in an eighth part of an Inch of their back Seam, where they are united, two 
{mall ridges or eminences running the whole length of the Pod. The Seeds 
are perfectly white, the largeft of this Kind, being of a Kidnies fhape, or 
fomething Oval at its narrowett or middle part, having a black Ailys or {peck, 
and each Seed is lodged in adiftinét, very thin, white Membrane or Bladder, 
and five or fix of thefe are contained in the {ame Pod. 
I found this Bean firft growing fponre at the upper end of the Town of 
St. Fago de laVega, and afterwards in feveral Planters Gardens. 
They are caten as other Phafeoli by fome, and counted good Food, though 
their greateft ufe is to fatten Hogs. 
Nothing but the colour is different in Clufus his Defcription of this Lobe 
or Seed, which may be from the age or durtinefs of the Plant. 
VIM. Phafeolus maximus perennis, folio decompofito, lobo maximo contorto. 
Cat.p. 68. Phafcolus utrinf{que Indie arborcus, alatis foliis, frutty MANO Core 
diformi, lobis longiffimis, nodofis, plerumaue intortis Pluken. Alm, 7-295. | 
This is very well defcribed and figured in the Hortus Malabaricus. 
They grow in thé inland Woods of this Ifland, creeping up the Trees, 
and covering their tops for many Acres, as in the Thickets beyond Mount 
Diallo, going to St. Anns, onthe Moneque Savanna, and inthe Hills between 
Gwanatoa, and Mountain River Plantations: 
The Beans are pick’d up, and the mealy part being taken out at the hilus, 
they are tipt with Silver, and made into Snuf-Boxes. 
The Beans Purge and' Vomit, and are therefore Merchandife. H7. Mf 
This. fort of Beah is one of thofe found thrown up on the Shores in the 
North-Weft parts of Scotland, concerning which fee the Philofophical Tran+ 
factions. Numb. 222. p. 398. } 
IX. Phafeolus Brafilianus frutefcens, lobis villofie, puncentibus, maximus. Herm. 
Par. Bat. pr. Cat. p. 68+ Phafeolus brafilianus foliis molli lanugine obfitis, fructe 
magno. G. B. Maf. Sxammard.p. 512. An Lobus Cartilaginens: exinfula. S. Mau- 
rittis. Clif. Braftl. Befler. fafc> Worle-Eye-Bean. © + on 
This has: round, green-Stalks, about the bignefS of a Goofe-Quill, by 
which it winds and turns its {elf round any Hedge or Tree it comes 
near. At about four Inches diftance, ir {ends outLeaves, flanding on two 
Inches long, green Foot-Stalks, three always together. The Foot-Stalk has 
a yellowifh, and rough protuberance:at-coming-out of the Stalk, as have 
the Leaves at parting from the Foot-Stalks, The Leaves are all equal to 
one another, that oppofite to the Foot-Stalk, or in the middle, having a 
Petiolus three quarters of ‘an Inch-long Each of the Leaves is three Inches 
. long, and half as broad, on the upper furface fmooth and green, on the un- 
der hoary and white, having fome fibers from the Center of the Foot-Stalk; 
and others from the middle Rib, running through the Leaf’ Ex alis foliorum 
hang down the Flowers by three Inch long Foot-Stalks, being eight or nine 
together, umbell-fafhion, -faftned to the end of the Foot-Stalk by a quarter 
of an Inch long Petioli.. ‘They confift firft of a hoary, yellowith green Cap= 
fula, divided into four parts, within which is another yellowifh and ail 
capfular 
