130 DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 
cocks—pleasant, wholesome — —among “things which are 
naturally in Virginia.” Strachey (Zravatle into Virginia, 72, 
119) describes the ‘fruit valed by the natives a marac cock, 
which me Indians plant,” ete. 
Ithough no see earrers ss fruit of the spontaneous 
plant is os eaten in the southern Atlantic States; and its 
popular name, May -pop, is Shots ae last stage of ‘the Tupi 
original. 
Now our Passiflora — nata is so like P. edulis (well 
known in cultivation), the home of which is in Brazil,* that 
botanists have been mabe clearly to distinguish the a 
except by the fact that ours, dying down to the ground at 
approach of winter, remains herbaceous. It occurs in a rather 
narrow geographical range; and Dr. Masters, in his elaborate 
study of the order (Zrans. Linn. Soc., XXvii, 641 ; ; see also Flora 
Brasiliensis), says that “ being so far separate from the remainder 
of its allies of the same subgenus, [it] may be considered as an 
outlier.” Altogether we may infer that ihe fruit and the name 
were sa ge derived from the same South American source. 
nana.—The author concludes, as did Robert Brown, 
that Dakin and Plantain are varieties of one species; also that 
this species is of the Old World; that in all probability it was not 
known in the West Indies when discovered by Columbus; but 
that in respect to the western side of North America, there is ‘some 
evidence which is not easily ruled out, especially the statement 
of Garcilasso that the Peruvians had the banana before the con- 
leaves. This is discredited because the author found beans in 
the same tombs, “ et que ‘la féve est certainement de |’ancien 
monde.” But if Stevenson wrote beans, without doubt he meant 
the seeds of Phaseolus, not of Faba. It would rather seem 
that the Banana, like the Sweet Potato and Cocoa-nut had early 
been transported over the Pacific. 
Phaseolus vulgaris, Kidney Bean.—Three weeks after his first 
landing in the new world Columbus saw, near Nuevitas in 
Cuba, “fields planted with “ fawones and fabas very different 
from those of Spain,” and two days afterwards, following the 
north coast of Cuba, he again found “land well cultivated with 
these Secoes and habas much unlike ours.” “ Faxones” or 
‘ jexoes” were—as Navarrete sat Colec. i, 200, 208,—‘‘ the 
_ same as /rejoles or judias,” Spanish names for kidney beans, 
which the Portuguese call Fezjaos. "Oviedo (1525-35) speaks of 
* Not Mexico, although indeed said to have been brought from “ wae Spain 
to the garden of the Farnese palace, in Rome, as early as ene It i Hest 
bated the name of Maracot—with excellent com psa the plant, gow flower, 
d the yah team Tobias Aldinus, in Harior. urnesiani (Rome, 1625), 
