NECKLACES. 
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beads. In India the seeds are used by jewellers 
and druggists as weights, averaging a little less 
than 2 grains. 
(For description of seed see List, No. 26.) 
Lucky Seeds or Beaus. 
The seeds of four distinct plants are called 
“ lucky” seeds. 
Lucky Bean, Overlook, or Morse Bean. 
Canavalia ensiformis. Order Leguminosae, 
Climber with purplish pea-shaped flowers and long 
pods. There is a local superstition that this plant 
will, if growing along the edge of provision-fields, 
protect the crop from depredations. The seeds are 
white. There is also a variety with similarly 
shaped seeds, but of reddish brown colour. 
(For description of seed see List, Nos. 9 and 12.) 
Canavalia obtusifolia is a plant very similar 
to C. ensiformis ; the seed, however, is over an inch 
long, narrow, more oblong, and of a yellowish 
brown with a dark line on one side. 
(For description of seed see List, No, n.) 
Lucky Seeds, or Lucky Beans, or Milk Bush. 
Thevetia neriifolia. Order Apocynaceae. A 
large shrub or bush with long, narrow, leaves and 
saffron-yellow funnel-shaped flowers, 2 to 3 inches 
long, and fruit about the size of a small apple. It 
is native of the West Indies and South America. 
This plant is found along the coast and up the 
valley of the Yallahs, and is often cultivated as an 
ornamental garden shrub ; it possesses however, a 
very poisonous milky juice. 
(For description of seeds see List, No. 5.) 
Mimosa or Wild Tamarind. 
LeucJena glauca. Order Leguminosae . This 
plant is not a Mimosa, nor is it the Wild Tam- 
arind ( Pithecolobium arbor eum , syn. filici folium) of 
Jamaica. The names have, however, apparently 
“ come to stay,” and so must be accepted. Leucoe- 
