219 



apart in the bean row ; total cost of cutting, and setting up the poles 

 being £3 per acre (Queensland Agric, Journ. xii. 1903, p. 361). 



Be/.— "The Velvet Bean," in Queensland Agric. Journ. i. 1897, 



pp. 97-98. "Velvet Bean," in Farmers' Bull. No. 78, 1898, pp. 



12-14, U.S. Dept. Agric. with analysis of seeds in air dry condition. 



" The Velvet Bean," Benson, in Queensland Agric. Journ. ii. May 



1898, pp. 370-371. " Florida Velvet Bean," Kew Bull. 1898, pp. 207- 



208. The Velvet Bean (Mucuna utilis), Smith, U.S. Dept. Agric. 



Div. of Agrostology, Circ. No. 14, 1899, pp. 1-5. The Velvet Bean, 



Duggar, Alabama Agric. Exp. Station, Bull. No. 104, 1899, pp. 109-125. 



" Velvet Bean (Mucuna utilis)," Lamson-Scribner, U.S. Dept. 



Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 102, 1899, pp. 41-43. "Velvet Bean" 



(Mucuna utilis) in Co-operative Exp. with Grasses and Forage 

 Plants, Kennedy, U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. of Agrostology, Bull. No. 22, 



1900, pp. 65-69. " Velvet Bean," Miller, Florida Agric. Exp. Station, 



Bull. No. 60, 1902. "Velvet Bean (Mucuna utilis);' Dodson, 



Louisiana Agric. Exp. St. Bull. No. 72, 1902, pp. 48-56. " Velvet 



Bean " (Mucuna utilis), in Transv. Agric. Journ. iv. 1906, pp. 614- 



615. " Velvet Bean " (Mucuna utilis), Wall., or M. pruriens DC. 



var. utilis, Bailey, Hume, in Cyclop. Amer. Agric. Bailey, ii. 



pp. 656-658 (Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1907). " The Florida 



Velvet Bean and its History," Bort, U.S. Dept. of Agric. Bureau PL 



Industry, Bull. No. 141, pt, 3, 1909, pp. 25-32. " The Scientific 



Name of the Florida Velvet Bean," A Criticism, Burtt-Davy, reprint 



from the South African Journ. Science, Feb. 1910, pp. 163-165. 



The Florida Velvet Bean and Related Plants, Piper and Tracy, U.S. 

 Dept, Agric. Bureau PI. Industry, Bull. No. 179, 1910, pp. 1-26, 

 illustrated. 



Mucuna nivea, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 406 ; Wight & Arnott, Prod. iFl. 

 Ind. Penin. Orient, 1834, p. 255. 



[Mucuna Lyonii, Merrill, Philippine Journ. Science, Suppl. i. 1906, 

 p. 197, fide Piper & Tracy, U.S. Dept, Agric. Bureau PI. Ind. Bull. 

 No. 179, p. 15]. 



An annual plant, stem and leaves beneath glabrescent. Leaflets 

 J-f ft. long, distinctly rhomboidal at the base, both sides at first 

 with a few adpressed hairs. Flowers white, in long drooping 

 racemes. Pod, 6 in. long, shortly velvety glabrescent ribbed 

 longitudinally, black and destitute of bristles when mature, 6-8 

 seeded (Fl. Brit. India, ii. (1879), p. 188). Seeds oval, smooth, ash 

 coloured. Piper & Tracy (I.e.) describe the leaf surface as being 

 decidedly undulate and unlike any other species known to them, so 

 that the plant may be readily recognised even before it blooms. 



111. — Blanco, Fl. Filip, t, 405, bis (Negretia mitts) ; Piper & Tracy, 

 U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau PI. Ind. Bull. No. 179, 1910, t. 4, f. A. 

 (pod and seeds). 



Vernac. names. — Sabual (Philippines, Merrill, Piper & Tracy) ; 

 Khamach, Alkushi (Bengal, Watt). — Lyon Bean ; Lyon Velvet 

 Bean (Philippine Agric. Rev. ii. 1909, p. 26). 



Burma and Bengal. Introduced to Onitsha, S. Nigeria, from the 

 U.S. Dept, of Agriculture. 



According to Piper & Tracy (I.e. p. 16), by removing the exterior 

 velvet-like skin of the large fleshy tender legumes, they are, when 

 dressed like French Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), a most excellent 

 vegetable for the table, and the full-grown beans are scarcely inferior 

 to the large garden beans of Europe. 



