4-54 HOKTUS JAMAICENSIS. kylungu 



Cflc/:stcr.es^~TViSi po Js of which, in their yoimf^ stale, are served up by way of greens, 

 under the name oi' French beans. When dry the seeds are used in soups, and are aa* 

 excellent food for negroes. 



Calavences, or red bean, 2X\A black-betty. ^These are very productive, and maybe 

 gathered in six or seven weeks after sowinj]^ ; the flowers of both are of a pnrple colour, 

 but the bean of the former is red, that of the iaiier black. They are both wiiolesome 

 food, of wjiich negroes in general are very f(jnd. They are erect plants, with 

 slender pods, round, many-seeded. The former is described and figured by. Sloane, 

 V. 1, p. 183, t. 115, f. 2,'Z: 



The Bonavist. This is a climbing plant, with loose terminal spikes, compressed 

 pads, four-seeded, with a rough suture on both sides. This plant is said to thrive 

 better than any of the others, and the seeds are considered wholesome and palaleable. 

 Jt grows luxuriantly among rocks, and in the driest soils. There is a white and a red 

 variety. Both are figured by Sloane, t. 113, f. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



Cuckold^s Increase. This plant resembles the calavances very-much, both in th& 

 size and manner of its growth, and size and form of its pods. It is a good and produc- 

 tive pulse. This seems to be a species of dolickos, as does the bonavist; neither of their 

 stiimens are spirally twisted ; flowers white, with a yellow tinge at the base of the banner. 



Jamaica Siigar^Bean. This is a scandent plant, with smooth compressed pods, 

 three or four seeded. It is cultivated all over the island, and introtluced as a green at- 

 every table, and a very excellent one it is ; it ii)dee4 takes its name from its agieeable 

 sweet flivour. It continues to bear through a considerable part of the year, if tke vine 

 is trained to run upon a stick or arbour. 



Broad Bean. This is a large plant, with large compressed pods, three or four 

 seeded. The stalk is as big as one's finger, turning and winding on any thing seven 

 or eight feet high. It is sometimes cuitrvated for covering arbours. The beans are 

 very wholesome and agreeable, either in soup or as a green. See SLoayie, t. \\\, f. 1. 



Lima Bean. This is perennial, and was long ago introduced into Jamaica, where it 

 lias thriven well, especially in the lowlands. This, in flavour and tenderness, far ex- 

 ceeds all the other kinds, but not so frequently to be met with. It requires a rich soil, 

 and continues to bear, if trained ui)on an arbour, for four or five years successively, 

 but does notprpduce so frequentlj' as the other kinds. 



See Black-Eyed Pea and Horse Beans. 



Kleinfa See Hemp Acrimony. 

 I^NOTTED Gr.\ss See Worm Grass, 



No English Name: KYLLINGIA. 



Cl. 3, OR. 1. Triandria monogynia. Nat. or. Gramina. 

 This was so named from Petrus Kylhng, a Dane. 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx an ovate oblong ament, imbricated, scales oblong ; glume un* 

 equal, compressed, bivalve; valves .lanceolate, channelled, acute, much shorter 

 than the corolla; the one shorter than the other ; corolla a glume, longer than the 

 calyx, coaipressed, bivalve; valves keeled, uiTcqual, divaricated at the tips, of 

 which one is larger, lanceolate, very sharp, complicated, embracing the margin 



of 



