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capfular Leaf. Within thefe is an Inchlongtubulous, papylionaceous, yellow 
Flower, with Stamina, and a Stylus. After thefe follow feveral Pods three 
Inches long, and half as broad, flat, having both Valves, at the opening, 
two waved eminent Lines, and all along their furface the fame fhorter waved 
eminences, very thick fet with very tharp and {mall Prickles, both on the 
eminences and furrows. They are firft of a green, and then when ripe of a 
blackifh colour, and contain feveral round Beans, of about an Inch Diame- 
ter, flat, of a light brown colour, with a black ledge or bilus almoft round 
them, looking fomething like a Horfes Eye, whencethename. _ 
They are eaten by the Caribes, and the juice of the Leaves is ufed by 
them for Dying Cotton Hamacs, of a black colour. Plum, 
They grew on a Lime-Hedge, near Colonel Copes at Guanaboa, betweert 
his Houfe, and the Mountains, and going down to the Ferry by the Rivers 
fide over againft Atkzvs’s Plantation. | 
Snuff-Boxes are madeof them. Tertre. 
Thefe Beans are very often to be gathered on the Sea Shore, caft up by 
the Waves, being dropt into fome Rivers, or the Sea its felf, whence they 
are again thrown up. | 
They are troublefome to Travellers, flinging them as they ride. Po fays 
they raife Puftles, and that he was not cured in eight days with Anodines 
and Coolers, they having hurt his Face and Hands in travelling. © 
They are thrown by the Currents of the Sea on the Norch-Weft parts of 
Scotland, concerning which the Philofophical TranfaCtions before mentioned. 
lufins {aw them tent from Barbary. | 
Three of thefe Beans eaten caufe death. The vertue of this Plant is in 
the Gout. The Leaves kcep Women with Child from the Vertigo, for boil’d 
in Rice-water they dry fuperfluous humors. Its Bark, with dry Ginger, 
and thé Fruit Caringola, beaten, and boil'd in the Oil call’d Fofule de enfermo 
> Bepu, gives an Oil, which anointed on the Spinal Marrow, quiets Rheums 
and hurtful Catarhs. ‘The Kernel, throwing away the inward Cuticle, 
boil’d with Milk and frefh Butter, is mixt to an Ointments Confiftence 
againft Pimples coming in Womens pudenda, Withthe Herb call'd Felis oculus, 
boil'd in Rice-wafhings and Butteremilk, itis a good Ointment in the Gour, 
and the fame does.the Rioor,: with the-Root of Carimbola, and Capiram, and 
the Leaves of Munia in.form,-of Liniment, or if with the Bark of Zamarind, 
and dry Ginger, lit be, powdered and-put,into Whey, and then with the Oil 
Bepu it be boild and. madeinto a Liniment... A. (7. 
They are ufed to be made into Buttons for Coats, fometimes tipt with 
Silver, fometimes not tipt. hk ae os : 
X. Phafcolus maritimus rotundifelins, flore purpurea, filiqua-brevi criftata, [eq 
mine fufco firiate. Cat. p.69«, Phafeolus Brafilicuside Bry.. florileg. The Sea- 
Bean. ott STN : 
“This has a-deep, white, ‘round. Root, fending out on every hand feveral 
very, long, {mall, white Filaments, running through the Joofe fandy Soil 
in which they grow to feek Nourifhment to the Plant. The Stalks are many, 
lying on the {urface of the ground for many Yards round, being about the bi g- 
nefS of a Swans-Quill, green, and a little cornered, putting forth at every 
three or four. Inches Leaves alternatively, three always ftanding together 
ona‘common two Inches long Foot-Stalk, protuberant at its coming from the 
Stalk. The Leaves are almoft round, that oppofite to the Foot-Sralk, or in 
the middle, is the largeft, ftanding an Inch beyond the other two at Bafe. 
Ic is two Inches long, and onc andan half broadin the middle where broadeft, 
having one middle Rib, and fome tranfverle ones being of a Grafs green co- 
colour, and fmooth. The Flowers ftand on an Inch long Foot-Stalk, are 
repr" 
The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 1709 
