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2. Pliaseolus dumosus. Year-Bean. 

 Twining hispid, leaflets ovate subacuminate villous 



along each side of the nerves on the under surface, 



racemes at first shorter, afterwards longer than the 



leaf, upper lip of the calyx sub-1-dentate, legume 



subtorulose warty along the sutures. 



HAB. Common in the higher mountains in thickets, and 

 ruinate provision grounds. 

 FL. Summer. 



Root perennial, thick, branched, carnoso-fibrons. Stem 

 suffruticose towards the base, twining, anguloso-sulcated, hispid 

 with reverted hairs. Leaflets ovate, scarcely acuminate, with 

 the apex acute, rounded at the base (the lateral ones unequila- 

 teral), entire, 3-nerved at the base, veined, hispid, villous be- 

 neath along the course of the nerves, membranaceous : petiole 

 about 5 inches in length, anguloso-sulcated : petiolules short, 

 terete, pubescent. Stipules oblongo-lanceolate : stipels oblong. 

 Racemes axillary, solitary, many-flowered, elongating as the 

 fruit forms ; peduncle angulose, hispidulous : pedicels about 3 

 together, the fourth an inch in length, furnished at the in- 

 sertion with 3 lanceolate bracteas (the middle one the largest) : 

 a pair of lineari-lanceolate bracteoles below each flower, longer 

 than the calyx. Calyx with the upper lip sub-entire : the 

 lower 3-fid with the divisions attenuato-acuminate. Standard 

 roundish, emarginate, concave, bicallose near the claw, whitish 

 tinged with purple near the base externally, turned slightly 

 to the right (of the flower) : wings twice the length of the 

 standard, of a pure white: keel spirally twisted, turned up be- 

 tween the wings into the concavity of the standard. Stamens 

 9 and 1. Ovary linear, compressed, glabrous: style pubescent 

 beneath towards the stigma. Legume pendulous, about 6 

 inches in length, raucronate, slightly compressed, tumid at the 

 situations of the seeds, sub-glabrous, warty : seeds 6, subreni- 

 form, compressed, plump, of a chestnut colour. 



This grows wild, and is very common in mountain thickets. 

 It readily attracts notice, by its beautiful snow-white blossoms. 

 It bears only once a year. The seeds have a great deal of the 

 flavour of the Windsor-bean, and are preferred by many to 

 any of the pulse-kind cultivated in the Island. It is diflBcult to 

 say positively whether it be a native or introduced. I have 

 never seen it cultivated. 



3. Phaseolus Limensis. Lima JBean, 



Twining pubescent, leaflets ovato-deltoid subacu- 

 minate bluntish apiculated, racemes shorter than the 

 leaf, wings of the corolla elongated, legume knife- 



