They were known as 'sea beans' in Scandinavia, where one has been found fossilised in a Swedish bog, and 'Molucca beans' in the Hebrides, where a visitor to Islay in 1772 wrote of them as seeds of ""Dolichos wrens", "Guilandina bonduc", "G. bonducetta", and "Mimosa scandens"…natives of "Jamaica"".