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180 The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
papylionaceous, and of a pale purple colour The Pod is two Inches long, 
and three quarters of an Inch broad, {traight, of a clay colour, fwell’d our, 
or the Peafe appearing in it before it be opened, having two crefts, rais'd 
Ledges, or eminent Lines, one on cach Valve, near the opening of it. The 
Peafe are about fix in number, cach lying in a different Membrane, of 
the bignefs of anordinary Bean. They are Oyal, brown, with clay coloured 
Spots on them, having a black Eye or Aijlus, by which they are fattened 
to the Pod. 
It grows on the Cayos near Port-Royal, and in all the Carides by the fandy 
Sea Shores very plentifully. 
They are dangerous to eat, therefore not gathered. Zertre. 
Smith in his Hiftory of the Summer Ifles, \has a paflage which I am apt 
to think relates to thefe Beans. The paflagé is this, p. 107. A kind of 
Woodbind, there is likewife by the Sea, very commonly to be found, which 
runs upon Trees, twining its felf like a Vine. The Fruit fomewhat re- 
tembles a Bean, but fomewhar flatter, the which, any way eaten, worketh 
excellently in the nature of a Purge, and though very vehemently, yet 
Without all peril. 
This Plant is very well figured by Ferrarins. 
NI. Lobus oblongns arematicus. Cluf. exot. Cat. p. 70. Vanillias piperis ar= 
bori Famaiccnfis innafcens. Plukenet, Alm. p. 38x. Phyt. Tab. 320. Fig.4. Vo- 
lubilis filiguofa Mexicana foliis plantaginets. Raii hift. p. 1330. Siliqua 
Thilxochitl Worm. Muf. Swammerd. p-16. Vinelloes of Damspicr. cap. 3 & 8. 
Volubilis Americana eapreolata; plantagineis foliis, fibiquis longis mofchum olen- 
tibus Bobart. hift. Ox. part. 3. p. 613. Lathyrus Mexicanus filiquis longilfimis 
antinofis Mcfchatis nigris. Amman, char.p. 436. 
It is faid by feveral that they grow in this Ifland about Agua Alta, and 
that before the felling of Timber, and clearing ground, they were common 
in the thady bottoms of the inland parts of this Ifland. 
They move Urin and the Menfes. Comfort the Brain, Expel Wind, and 
Concoct crude humors. Pf. 
It is mixed with Chocolate. 
It grows about Bocatoro Guatulco ¢ Campeche. It has a yellow Flower. 
It grows about the Trees, is yellow when Ripe, and laid in the Sun turns 
foft, and to a Chefnut colour, then they prefs it between their Fingers, and 
make at flat. The Spaniards fleck it with Oil. Dampier. 
XII. Phafeolus glycyrrhizites, folio alato pifo coccineoatra macala notato. Cat. 
p70. Tab. tits Figewss, GS | 
This, by its Scalk, winds‘its felf round any Shrub it comes near, rifing by 
its help feven or ten Foot high. The Stalks are of the bignefs of a Goofe- 
Quill, round, woody, fmooth, fhining, having here and there alternatively 
Branches and Leaves. ‘The Branches are about fix Inches long, and at each 
nehes interval are winged Leaves, about four Inches long, befet by equal num- 
bers of Pinne, oppofite to one another, each of them being three quarters of 
an Inch long, and one quarter of an Inch broad, of a yellowith green colour, 
about eight or fine pair, growing on the fame middie Rib: Atthe end of 
the Branch fland the Flowers very clofe in a Spike together, being in all 
two Inches long. “Eaeh‘of them is pale purple, and papylionaccous. After 
then follow as°many fhort, broad, greenifh brown Pods, broad at bottom, 
and {harp towards their ends, each containing three or four cxa@ly round, 
fearlet Peafe, ‘haying a black fpet on that part where they flick to the 
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