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able resemblance. It bears throughout the year, and is very 
prolific. When young and dressed for table it resembles in 
taste the English Pea. I have met with it growing wild in 
fences in Liguanea. 
* * Herbaceous; annual. 
(3. Phaseolus saccharatus. Sugar-Bean. 
Twining hispid, leaflets ovato-lanceolate subcordate 
mucronate, racemes shorter than the leaf, upper lip 
of the calyx subemarginate, legume acinaciform, 
seeds compressed. 
HAB. Cultivated. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Stem angulose, hispid with reverted hairs. Leaflets liispi- 
dulous along the nerves, especially on the under surface, nearly 
6 inches long, and 1^ broad: petiole elongated, angulose, mi- 
nutely hispidulous above. Stipules small, deltoid, acute, fleshy 
at the base : stipels somewhat oblong. Racemes axillary. 
Flowers small, white, 3 together, (the centre one usually abor- 
tive) pedicelled : pedicels half an inch in length. Bracteas 
3 at the insertion of each cluster of pedicels, small, oblongo- 
ovate. Calyx bibracteolate, minutely puberulous ; upper lip 
subentire (or subemarginate); the under 3-fid. Standard 
green, obliquely reflected, concave ; wings of a pure white, 
oblong, concave ; keel spirally twisted. Stamens with one of 
them free, and thickened at the base. Ovary subglabrous (under 
the glass minutely puberulous) : style hairy on the under surface 
towards the stigma. Legume acinaciform, mucronate, com- 
pressed : seeds 2-3, compressed, white or of a blood-red 
colour. 
The Sugar-bean is very generally cultivated in the Lowlands, 
where it bears abundantly in the warmest situations. It does 
not, however, thrive in the mountains. Of the species enume- 
rated by De Candolle, it agrees in some respects with the cha- 
racter of P. Xuaresii. 
7- Phaseolus latisiliquus. Broad-Bean. 
Stem twining minutely hispidulous, leaflets ovate 
rounded and subcordate at the base subglabrous, 
racemes shorter than the leaf, legume broad knife- 
shaped, seeds 3 broad compressed white. 
HAB. Cultivated. 
FL. December, January, t 
Stem angulose. Leaflets apiculated, subglabrous, thin : pe- 
tiole 4-5 inches long, anguloso-sulcated. Stipules small, ovato- 
