216 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM Nil NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



2.2 cm. deep, roee-red, rarely yellow and violet; pod LO to L2.5 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. 

 wide, linear, compressed, slightly pubescent, dark; seeds 12 to 15. 



Bayamon on the roadside and in hedges; near Cabo Rojo, in thickets toward 

 Monte Grande; cultivated near May aguez; near Afiasco, in thickets al Batillo; near 

 Aguadilla, al Victoria. Jamaica Grisebach), Ham. Guadeloupe, Martiniqui 

 Vincent, Tobago. Cosmopolitan in the tropica 



Tin- plain l-in its habil quite different from P. temierectua. P. aderumtkui is wide 

 climbing, the other erect, twining above. The pod of /'. nemierectut T- very narrow 

 and Bubcylindrical, thai of /'. adenanthua widely lunar and compressed The 

 flowers are larger than those of an) other Porto Rican Phaseolus. In India the 

 tuberous root is cooked and eaten, especially in time of famine. 

 I name, habichuela cimarrona < 'ook and Collins). 



6. Phaseolus ovatus Benth. 



(Urban, 309 



Stem climbing, Blender, clothed with red-brown hairs; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, 5 i" 7..") cm. long, membranous, beneath or on both sides pilose becoming 

 glabrous; stipules ovate or oblong, about 6 nun. long, auriculate or Bubpeltate al the 

 base; peduncle 7.5 to 12.5 cm. long; bracts linear, subulate, pilose, caducous; calyx 

 Bubsessile, 3 to l nun. long, glabrous, the teeth shorter than the tube, the upper one 

 broad, the lateral ones obtuse, lowesl one subacute; Mowers yellow; standard orbicular, 

 1.2 to l.l nun. long; wings obovate, a little longer than the standard; beak of the keel 

 spirally twisted; legume 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 6 nun. wide, compressed, later subterete; 

 Beeds ovate, compressed. 



Mayaguez and near Vega Baja on the margins of the Yeguana Lake. Cuba, 

 Brazil, Uruguay. 



7. Phaseolus lathyroides L. " 



(Urban, 310.) 



Stem erect or twining above, sericeous or glabrescenl ; leaflets broadly ovale or sub- 

 lanceolate; 2.5 to 5 cm. long, I to 2 cm. wide; stipules lanceolate, setaceo-acuminate, 

 striate, 1 to 6.5 mm. long; petiole 2 to 3.5 cm. long; peduncle elongated, l"> to 30 cm. 

 long, flowering pari 5 to 7.5 cm. long; calyx 6 mm. deep; corolla purple, 1.3 to 1.7 mi. 

 deep; pod narrowly linear, erect, Bubcylindrical, 7 i « > 11 cm. long, 1 nun. wide, many- 

 seeded. 



Near Bayamon in rocky and dry place-; near Aibonito, al La Lima: in Maricao in 

 the Btreets; near Mayaguez. Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman, Main. St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix (Eggere . St. John (do.), Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, 

 Bequia, Mustique (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 247), Barbados, Grenada, Curacao. Indig- 

 enous in tropica] America; distributed over the tropics of the whole world. 



Sintenis collected under the no. 5854 and under the name habichuelas a cultivated 

 speci.- of Phaseolus, which can noi be determined because its flowers arc faded and 

 deformed. Is this nol perhaps P. multijlorua Willd.? 



65. VIGNA Savi. 



17,/,,,/ Savi, Osserv. Phas. 3: 7. L824. 

 Collicysthus Endl. Prod. Fl. Norfolk 90. L833. 

 ScyUdts E. Mf.v. Comm. PI. Air. Austr. I II. 18 



Calyx campanulate or subtubuliform, the two upper lobes free or connate; Btandard 

 Buborbicular, the base appendiculate, with indexed auricles; wings falcate-obovate, 



"Cook and Collins, p. li I « '» . as Phoseolui seniierectus. 



