452 Kitchen Garden Esculents of American Origin. [May, 
natives. One of these has a straight stalk, the other thirteen are 
climbers.”? 
In the face of this evidence, which might be even more multi- 
plied from my notes, it seems unreasonable in De Candolle to 
doubt the American origin of the common kidney-bean, and his 
conclusion as shown by his classing “ Haricot Commun Phaseo- 
lus vulgaris” under “ Especes d’un origine Completement incon- 
nue ou incertaine” seems to show that with him more evidence 
is required in the case of American plants than to locate others 
which are of probably European or Asiatic origin. 
Bean: Lima.—The lima bean is unquestionably of American 
origin, and De Candolle assigns its original habitat to Brazil, 
where the variety macrocarpus Benth., has been found growing 
wild? Seeds have been found in the mummy graves of Peru, as 
by Squier at Pachahamac, and by Reiss and Stubel at Ancon.‘ 
In Southern Florida the lima bean, the seeds, white blotched 
or speckled with red, is found growing spontaneously in aban- 
doned Indian plantations,. and various forms are recorded by 
` authors under specific names as found in America and other 
countries, as P. bipunctatus Jacq., P, inamoenus L., P. puberulus 
Kunth., P. sazcharatus Macf., &c.,° P. derasus Sehirarik (Martens), 
F Pifus. Jacq., etc. In the mentions of beans by voyagers this 
form is not discriminated from the kidney-bean, and hence we 
cannot offer precise statement of its occurrence from such author- 
ities. 
It is now widely distributed. It has not been found wild in 
Asia, nor has it any modern Indian or Sanscrit name (De Can- 
dolle); Ainslie says it was brought to India from the Mauritius, 
and is the vellore or duffin bean of the southern provinces. Wight 
says it is much cultivated, is seldom if ever found in a wild state, 
and the large podded sort is said to have been brought by Dr. 
Duffin from the Mauritius.” It is not mentioned by the early 
1 Hist. of Chili, 1, 91. 
? Orig. des Pl. Cult., 275. 
> Peru, 78. 
*De Candolle, 1. c., 273. 
5 Letter of W. S. Allen, Chocaluskee. 
ê De Candolle, 1. c. 
1 Millers Dict, 
8 Mat. Med., 1, 28. 
? Icones Plant. PL, 755. 
