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:
Both Mucuna urens and Mucuna sloanei are known in Haiti as yeux bourrique (donkey's eyes), the first of whch 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 yeux de bourique
Current Common Name:
Horse-eye bean; ox-eye bean
Current Scientific Name
Mucuna urens
