80 Sarrorp: NoTEs OF A NATURALIST AFLOAT—IV 
bean (Mucuna urens) yeux de bourrique or liane A cacone. 
The names liane A calecon and liane fer-’-cheval are 
applied to species of Aristolochia and of Passiflora, with 
2-lobed leaves shaped more or less like a pair of trousers 
or like a horseshoe; while Aristolochia anguicida is called 
liane 4 corbillon, because its seed pods resemble minia- 
ure baskets. The well-known antidote cacoon of Ja- 
maica (Feuillea cordifolia) is called in Haiti liane 
boite a a savonette, on account of its fruit, which is like a | 
spherical box filled with irregular flattened disklike 
seeds more or less resembling small cakes of soap, and 
on account of its real or supposed medicinal qualities it 
is also called liane 4 contre-poison, or in Spanish bejuco 
de aceapipe A certain vine of the forest, yielding 
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we called lianes © a tonnelle or lianes A berceau ~ 
radle vines); while ; species of Paullinia are called lianes 
: a scie (saw — from their peculiar stems, or lianes” 
a persil ( rs! from their pretty compound — 
ch produces the little black-and- me 
leaves; and the pind whi 
ted seeds knov 
