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2. Phaseolus dumosus. Year-Bean . 
r l wining hispid, leaflets ovate subacuminate villous 
along each side of the nerves on the under surface, 
racemes at first shorter, afterwards longer than the 
leaf, upper lip of the calyx sub-1 -dentate, legume 
subtorulose warty along the sutures. 
HAB. Common in the higher mountains in thickets, and 
ruinate provision grounds. 
FL. Summer. 
Root perennial, thick, branched, carnoso-fibrous. Stem 
suffruticose towards the base, twining, anguloso-sulcated, hispid 
with reverted hairs. Leaflets ovate, scarcely acuminate, with 
the apex acute, rounded at the base (the lateral ones unequila- 
teral), entire, 3-nerved at the base, veined, hispid, villous be- 
neath along the course of the nerves, membranaceous : petiole 
about 5 inches in length, anguloso-sulcated : petiolules short, 
terete, pubescent. Stipules oblongo-lanceolate : stipels oblong. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, many-flowered, elongating as the 
fruit forms ; peduncle angulose, hispidulous : pedicels about 3 
together, the fourth an inch in length, furnished at the in- 
sertion with 3 lanceolate bracteas (the middle one the largest) : 
a pair of lineari-lanceolate bracteoles below each flower, longer 
than the calyx. Calyx with the upper lip sub-entire: the 
lower 3-fid with the divisions attenuato-acuminate. Standard 
roundish, emarginate, concave, bieallose near the claw, whitish 
tinged with purple near the base externally, turned slightly 
to the right (of the flower) : wings twice the length of the 
standard, of a pure white: keel spirally twisted, turned up be- 
tween the wings into the concavity of the standard. Stamens 
9 and 1. Ovary linear, compressed, glabrous: style pubescent 
beneath towards the stigma. Legume pendulous, about 6 
inches in length, mucronate, slightly compressed, tumid at the 
situations of the seeds, sub-glabrous, warty : seeds 6, subreni- 
form, compressed, plump, of a chestnut colour. 
This grows wild, and is very common in mountain thickets. 
It readily attracts notice, by its beautiful snow-white blossoms. 
It bears only once a year. The seeds have a great deal of the 
flavour of the Windsor-bean, and are preferred by many to 
any of the pulse-kind cultivated in the Island. It is difficult to 
say positively whether it be a native or introduced. I have 
never seen it cultivated. 
3. Phaseolus Limensis. Lima Bean. 
Twining pubescent, leaflets ovato-deltoid subacu- 
minate bluntish apiculated, racemes shorter than the 
leaf, wings of the corolla elongated, legume knife- 
