LEGUMINOS.E. CXCIX. Canavalia. CC. Amphodus. CCL Mucuna, 



363 



and incurved at the apex; flowers erect. I2 . ^. S. Native of oSovc, odous, a tooth ; in reference to the vexillum being fur- 

 the East Indies. Lobus machaeroides, Rumph. amb. 5. p. 135. 



nished with a tooth on each side at the base). Lindl. hot. reg. 

 f. 1.— Rheed. mal. 8. t. 45. Perhaps a proper species, 1101. 



Sword-])odded Canavalia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1790. Sh. tw. Lin. syst. Diadclphia, Decdndria. Calyx bractless, thrust in 



at the base, bilabiate ; upper lip bidentate, lower one trifid, with 

 subulate segments. Corolla with a reflexed vexillum, which is 



FIG. 49. 



5 C. ENsiFORMis (D. C. prod. 2. 

 p. 404.) leaflets ovate, acute ; le- 

 gumes 10 times or more longer than 

 they are broad. 0. ? ^. S. Na- 

 tive of Malabar and the West In- 

 dies, polichos ensiformis, Lin. 

 spec, 1022.^ Lam. diet. 2. p. 295. 

 Dolichos acinaciformis, Jacq. coll. 

 1. p. 114. icon. rar. t. 559. 

 Rheed. mal. 8. t. 44.— Sloan, hist, 

 jam. L t. 114. f. 1, 2, 3. Malo- 

 chia ensiformis, Savi, mem. 1825. 

 p. 1. Flowers pale purple. Seeds 

 white, but having the hylum girded 

 with brick-colour. 



Var. [3, dlbida (D. C. 1. c.) flow- 

 ers and seeds white. Mucunaalbi- 

 da, Moc. etSesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. 



i:n5(/brm-podded Canavalia. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1778. PL tw. 



C C. Loure'irii; leaflets ovate, acute, wrinkled, glabrous; 

 legumes large, broad, thickest on the back; stamens diadel- 

 phous. ^i*^ '" 



IS cultivated for adorning arbours, 

 coch. 437- "' 



furnished with an inflexed tooth on each side at the base ; wings 

 and keel linear. Stamens diadelphous. Style filiform, glabrous, 

 crowned by a capitellate stigma. Legume linear-oblong, com- 

 pressed, wingless, torulose, many-seeded. Seeds oblong, com- 

 pressed, greenish brown, with a small linear hylum, and girded 

 by a thick white arillus. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle obtuse, 

 inflexed. — A twining shrub, with pinnately-trifoliate leaves, sti- 

 pellate ovate leaflets, ending in a spine-like mucronc, and short 

 axillary racemes of large purple flowers. 



1 A. ova'tus (Lindl. 1. c.) I2 • ^' S. Native of Trinidad. 

 Plant hairy in every part except the upper surface of the leaves. 



OvateAevived Amphodus. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. Sh. tw. 



Cult, See Mucuna for culture and uroDaeration. d. 3G4. 



CCI. MUCU'NA (Mucuna-guaca is the Brazil name of M. 

 urens), Adans. fam. 2. p. 325. Juss. ann. mus. 11. p. 76. 



S. Native of China and Cochin-china, where it beng. — Macroceratides, Raddi. 



D. C. prod. 2. p. 404. — Hornera, Neck. — Stizolobium, Pers. 



ench. 2. p. 299. — Negretia, Ruiz et Pav. prod. t. 21. 



Lour. Labradia, Swed. mat. med. — Carpopogon, Roxb. hort. 



Citta, 



Dolichos ensiformis. Lour. 



Flowers purplish violet. 

 Loureiro's Canavalia. Shrub tw. 



7 C. Ru^TiLANs (D. C. 1. c.) leaflets oval-oblong, obtuse ; le- 



Mative 



Lin. syst. Diadelphiaf Decdndria. Calyx campanulate, bila- 

 biate ; lower lip trifid, with acute segments, the middle segment 



I 



gumes straight, 4 times longer than broad. 

 01 Mexico. 



^ 



s. 



Mucuna rutilans, Moc. et Sesse, fl. raex. ined. 

 and. sppfi nfik vt^AAjoVi c.*^o^i^<- ^^iv-^«iM 



Glittering Canavalia. 

 8 C. 11 



Shrub tw. 



cu RVA (D. C. 1. c.) leaflets oblong, acute ; flowers 



axillary, solitary ; legumes ensiform, incurved, acuminated. "2;. 



Tl" I Jf^tive of Japan, about Nagasaki. .Dolichos incurvus, 



Jiiiunb. fl. jap. 280. Herb glabrous. Legumes a span long. 



lowers purple. Perhaps suflSciently distinct from C. gladiata. 



/«c«rtW-podded Canavalia. PI. tw. 



^ y C. LiNEA TA (D. C. 1. c.) leaflets ovate, obtuse, ending in 



ined acumen ; flowers racemose ; legumes oblong, acute, 



«uii a straight back, but rounded in front. 1? . '^. G. Native 



980 ^^^pi' *^°"' Nagasaki. Dolichos linelitus, Thunb. fl. jap. 

 ^ou. JH lowers purple. Legumes 2 inches long. 



W-leaved Canavalia. PI. tw. 



lets * f.^f ^'* ^P; ^" ^' C-) stems creeping, and ascending ; leaf- 

 roundish, shining ; racemes longer than the leaves ; legumes 



pblong, ending in a short acumen. ' ^ -^- ^ ' 

 in sand by the sea-side. 



'^' p. 1243. 

 ceous. 



Climbing herbs or 



^ . S. Native of Jamaica, 



Dolichos roseus, Swartz, fl. ind. occ. 



Flowers of a reddish blue-colour, rather coria- 



^ose-coloured-flowered Canavalia. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1812. 

 *^'- creeping. ^ ^ 



obtus ^' ^"^^'^'^'^^sis (Lindl. bot. reg. 1199.) leaflets ovate, 

 loriffe ' , ^"'^'^^^''"Sj glabrous, acuminate ; racemes drooping, 



tnoTk^i " ^^ ^e^ves ; lower lip of calvx furnished with one 

 tooih-hke process "■ 



'ong villous stipe, 

 purple, large. 



C„";;"* ^f ''«» CanavaU. . .. _. _^. 



trainin' *^p"^ twining or climbing plants, well adapted for 

 andn ^ "^ ' rafters in a stove or greenhouse; their culture 

 propagation are the same as those fox Dwclea, p. 362. 



ovary falcate, pubescent, 6-ovulate, on a 

 ^ . '^. G. Native of Buenos Ayres. Flowers 



la. 



Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1824. 



Sh. tw. 



(from a//^(, amphif 



and 



drawn out most, upper lip broad, entire, and obtuse. Corolla witl 

 assurgent vexillum, shorter than the wings and keel ; wings ob- 

 long, length of the keel, which is oblong, straight, and acute. 

 Stamens diadelphous, with 5 of the anthers oblong-linear, and 

 the other 5 ovate and hairy. Legume oblong, torose, 2-valved; 

 the seeds separated by cellular dissepiments. Seeds round, with 

 a linear hylum girded by a circular mark, 

 shrubs, with pinnately-trifoliate leaves, and axillary racemes, 

 which are usually pendulous when bearing the fruit. Legumes 

 hispid from innumerable brittle, stiff, stinging caducous bristles, 

 which easily penetrate the cuticle. 



Sect. I. Zoophtha'lmum (from ^woyy zoon^ an animal, and 

 OipOaXfiOQ, opthabnoSy an eye ; in reference to the form of the 

 seeds, which resemble the eye of an animal). P. Browne, jam. 

 D. C prod. 2. p. 405. Legumes with the furrows transversely 

 lamellose. 



1 M. u^RENS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 405.) flowers racemose ; le- 

 gumes covered with stinging bristles ; leaflets clothed with shin- 

 ing tomentum beneath. Tj . '^. S. 



and South America. Mucuna, Marcgr. bras. 19. Plum. amer. 

 t, 107. Piuk. phyt. t. 213. f. 2. Dolichos ilrens, Lin. spec. 

 1020. Jacq. amer. 202. t. 182. f. 84. Stizolobium iirens, Pers. 

 ench. 2. p. 299. Flowers large, white or yellow, with the lower 

 edge of the wings red. The seeds from their resemblance to an 

 eye are called by the French Yeux-hourrique^ or ass's eye, and 

 for the same reason they have the name ox-eye-bean in our co- 

 lonies In the West Indies. 



Burning Cow-itch or Ox-eye-bean. FJ. June, July. Clt. 



1691. Shrub cL 



2 M. MOLLIS (D, C. 1. c.) flowers disposed in globose heads 

 on the tops of the peduncles ; bracteas ovate, acutish ; legumes 

 clothed with dense silky tomentum, oblong, acinaciform, 6- 

 celled ; leaflets ovate, acuminated, hairy above, but clothed with 

 silky rufescent tomentum beneath, fj . '^. S. Native of New 

 Granada, on mount Quindiu, in temperate places. Negretia 

 in611is, H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. anaer. 6, p. 444. 



Soft Cow- itch. Shrub cl. 

 3 A 2 



Native of the West Indies 



