Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Vegetaux de St. Domingue ramassées dans mon Second voyage," December 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 4
Notes:
Several species -- Dalechampia scandens, Trajia volubilis, and Mucuna pruriens are known as pois gratter or pois gratté in Haiti, the first of which is pictured here. Catalogue of the Seed Plants of the West Indies, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/WestIndies/catalog.htm
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Lianes a pois a gratter
Current Common Name:
Spurge creeper
Current Scientific Name
Dalechampia scandens
