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able resemblance. It bears throughout the year, and is very 

 prolific. When young and dressed for table it resembles in 

 taste the English Pea. I have met with it growing wild in 

 fences in Liguanea. 



* * Herbaceous ; annual. 



6. Pliaseolus saccharatus. Sugar-Bean. 



Twining hispid, leaflets ovato-lanceolate subcordate 

 mucronate, racemes shorter than the leaf, upper lip 

 of the calyx subemarginate, legume acinaciform, 

 seeds compressed., 



HAB. Cultivated. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Stem angulose, hispid with reverted hairs. Leaflets hispi- 

 dulous along the nerves, especially on the under surface, nearly 

 6 inches long, and 1^ broad: petiole elongated, angulose, mi- 

 nutely hispidulous above. Stipules small, deltoid, acute, fleshy 

 at the base : stipels somewhat oblong. Racemes axillary. 

 Flowers small, white, 3 together, (the centre one usually abor- 

 tive) pedicelled : pedicels half an inch in length. Bracteas 

 3 at the insertion of each cluster of pedicels, small, oblongo- 

 ovate. Calyx bibracteolate, minutely puberulous ; upper lip 

 subentire (or subemarginate) ; the under 3-fid. Standard 

 green, obliquely reflected, concave ; wings of a pure white, 

 oblong, concave ; keel spirally twisted. Stamens with one of 

 them free, and thickened at the base. Ovary subglabrous (under 

 the glass minutely puberulous) : style hairy on the under surface 

 towards the stigma. Legume acinaciform, mucronate, com- 

 pressed : seeds 2-3, compressed, white or of a blood-red 

 colour. 



The Sugar-bean is very generally cultivated in the Lowlands, 

 where it bears abundantly in the warmest situations. It does 

 not, however, thrive in the mountains. Of the species enume- 

 rated by De Candolle, it agrees in some respects with the cha- 

 racter of P. XUARESII. 



7. Phaseolus latisiliquus. JBroad-Bean. 



Stem twining minutely hispidulous, leaflets ovate 

 rounded and subcordate at the base subglabrous, 

 racemes shorter than the leaf, legume broad knife- 

 shaped, seeds 3 broad compressed white. 



HAB. Cultivated. 

 FL. December, January. 



Stem angulose. Leaflets apiculated, subglabrous, thin : pe- 

 tiole 4-5 inches long, anguloso-sulcated. Stipules small, ovato- 



