Book VIII.  J/landof BARBADOS. 
The Wiip-TAMARINDS. 
a very {mall woody perennial Plant refembles in Miniature, efpe- 
cially in its Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit, the large Tamarind-Tree 
already defcribed: 
The Horsz-Eye-Bean VINE. 
TP HIS, if fupported by any tall Tree or Rock, will grow to above 
fifty Feet high. Its Leaves are large, and fet on five-inch Stalks, three 
in Number, in a triangular Manner. Its Bloffoms are of the papiliona- 
ceous Kind; which are fucceeded by a large downy Pod, inclofing from one 
to three Beans, called Hor/e-Eyes. 
This Name is given to them from their Likenefs to the Eye of an Horfe 
in Shape and Colour. 
The HorsE-BEAN: 
HIS is a long trailing Vine, with large beautiful green Leaves. 
Its Flowers, which are of the papilionaceous Kind, are fucceeded 
by Pods often ten Inches or a Foot in Length, which inclofe from nine to 
 one-and-twenty large Beans, 
The BEAN-VINE. 
pie many different Sorts of eatable Beans, planted in this Ifland, are 
generally diftinguifhed by the Names of Arbour-Beans, {peckled 
Beans, Carolina Beans, the Sugar Bean, and the {mall Six-weeks Beans. 
_ The Arbour-Bean, which is by far the largeft, takes its Name from its 
_ being often planted near Arbours; on which, if guided, it will creep, 
and afford an agreeable Shade. ‘This Vine bears a Pod near fix Inches 
long. 
The WiLp-PEa. 
HIS is a fimall weak creeping Vine, which by its numerous Ten- 
drils climbs up the neighbouring Trees, Shrubs, or Rocks. It is 
- thinly cloathed with {mall fharp-pointed Leaves; each Pedicle fuftaining 
three, fet on in a Triparture-order. The Flowers are of the papiliona- 
_ ceous Kind, and white, except that near the Centre. They are very flightly 
ftained with red. Thefe are fucceeded by a three-inch-long Pod, containing 
in partitional Cells about fifteen {mall Peas. 
This Vine grows chiefly in fhady Places, 
jis The 
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