Reverend William Herbert, to whom we are indebted for 

 the specimens from which our drawing was made. We 

 learn from Mr. Herbert that the stem is woody, and sends 

 out frequently horizontal or drooping runners, which cross 

 along to the furthest extremities" of the hothouse, rising 

 up here and there to the top of the building, and again 

 hanging down from the wires upon the rafters. 



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A tender stove plant, flowering during most of the 

 summer months. Our drawing was made m August last. 

 Propagated, we presume, by cuttings. 



The remarkably dilated upper lip of the calyx, the 

 minute lower lip, and the monadelphous stamens, distin- 

 guish Canavalia satisfactorily from the other genera re- 

 cently separated from Dolichos. The species now figured 

 differs from the essential character ascribed to the genus 

 by M. Decandolle, in the lower *lip consisting of one 

 minute tooth-like process, instead of three. We are not 

 acquainted with the fruit ; but we learn from Mr. Herbert 

 that the seed was large, and very similar in size and colour 

 to that of Wisteria frutescens. 



J. L. 



