GARDEN BEANS CULTIVATED AS ESCULENTS. 89 
Phaseolus peregrinus, fructu lato, compresso, albo. Tournef. Inst. 413. 
(1719). 
Field Columbian Museum, seeds, No. 11389: Philadelphia Commercial 
Museum, seeds, No. 5077, “‘Cubaces amarillos;” Aserri, Costa Rica; 
5088, ““Cubaces,” Aserri, Costa Rica; 5528, “‘Cubaces blancos y mor- 
ados,’”? La Laguna, Puriscal, Costa Rica; 5534, ‘‘ Cubaces higuerillos,” 
La Laguna, Puriscal, Costa Rica; 5549, “ Cubaces,’” Puriscal, Costa 
Rica; 10599, ‘“‘Buba,’” Portuguese West Africa; 10640, *« Guaracaros 
pintados; ” 10968, Red flat “‘ Ixtapacal,’’ Guatemala. 
Plants climbing 5-8 ft. or dwarf (1-2 ft.) in some 
garden varieties. Leaflets ovate, acuminate, rather thin. 
Blossoms white or greenish white, in racemes equal to 
or shorter than leaves. Pods 1}—4 in. long, }-4 in. broad, 
flat, lunate, usually tipped with a short stout spur, contain- 
ing 2-4 beans. Seed }—} in. long, about as broad, much 
flattened, lunate, subreniform or often angled, variously 
colored. 
VARIETIES OF P. LUNATUS. 
Seed small and flat, usually less than § in. long. 
White. 
Leaves broadly ovate. 
Plant a climber. CAROLINA. 
Plant dwarf. HENDERSON. 
Leaves usually linear-lanceolate. WILLOW LEaF. 
Black, brown or speckled. 
Black or speckled with black. Buiack Lima. 
Brown, speckled with a darker shade. JACKSON. 
Seed larger than last, except Kumerle which is tumid, other varieties flat 
or tumid. P. lunatus macrocarpus. 
Seed flat. 
White. 
Plant a climber. 
Pods 3-4 in. long. 
Late. LarRGE WHITE. 
Early. JERSEY. 
Pods 5-7 in. long. Forp. 
Plant dwarf. BURPEE. 
Speckled. SPECKLED. 
Seed tumid, white. 
Large, usually 3-1 in. long, plant a climber. 
Pods 3-4 in. long. DREER. 
Pods 2-3 in. long. CHALLENGER. 
Seed smaller than last, plant dwarf. KUMERLE. 
