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HISTORY OF GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
LIMA BEAN, Pliaseolus luiiatus L. 
T^HIS bean is of American origin, as its seed has been 
found in the mummy pits of Peru,^ and Bentham cites 
specimens spontaneous in the region of the River Amazon and 
Central Brazil.- Thevetus, in 1558, published his " Les Singu- 
larities de la France Antarctique ou Amerique," and in this he 
speaks of the "Americanorum Faba, omnino alba, valde com- 
pressae, nostratibus latiores et longiores," which is probably this 
species. The striae radiating from the eye of the Lima bean 
make its identification very easy, and hence we cannot be in 
error in our recognition of the figures given by Lobel'^ in 1591, 
Clusius * in 1601, J. Bauhin-^ in i65i,and ChabrasusMn 1673, 
and Clusius notes that he first grew it in 1576. 
The synonymy, as I have studied it out, is as follows : 
Phaseoli inagni late albi. Lob. Ic, 1591, 2, 60. 
B. peregrini I. genus alterrum. Clus. Hist, 160 1, 2, 223 
(seen in 1576) fig. 
Phaseolusjato, striata, sive radiato semine. J. Bauh., 165 i, IL, 
267, fig. 
P. noi'i orbis, latus, totus candidus similaci hortensis affinis. J. 
B., 165 I, IL, 268, fig. Chabr., 1673, 137, fig. 
Phaseolus lunatus, L. sp., 1762,, 1016. 
P. i?iamcentis, L. sp., 1763, 10 16. 
P. bipunctatus. Jac. Hort., I., t. 100, ex Mill. Diet. 
P. r74fiis. Jacq. Hort., I., 13. t. 34, ex Mill. Diet. 
P. saccharatus. Macfad., 1837, 282. 
P. piibenilus. Kunth. Syn., 1825, IV., 106. 
Bushel or Sugar Bean. A Treat, on Gard. ( 1 8 1 8[?]). 
iSquiers. Peru, 78. ♦Clusius. Hist., 1601, 223. 
