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the leaflets; petiolules puberulent, 4 to 5 mm. long; leaflets coriaceous, ovate- 
oblong, very shortly acuminate at apex, the tip blunt and not apiculate, 
rounded to subcordate at base, glabrous or nearly so, prominently reticulate- 
venose benneath, 7 to 10 cm. leng, 4 to 5 em. broad; peduncles short, the inflo- 
rescence about 20-flowered ; pedicellar glands prominent; bracteoles suborbic- 
ular; calyx 10 to 14 mm. long, campanulate, glabrous or nearly so, 2-lipped, 
the upper lip as long or a little longer than the tube «1d divided to the base, 
its lobes rounded, the lower lip entire, lanceolate, coLeave, thickish, 1.5 to 2 
mm. long; corolla purplish, 2 cm. long; standard with a broad claw 7 mm. 
long, the blade orbicular, deeply bilobed, the callosities lunate, thick, the 
auricles short, broad, and inflexed; wings 17 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
curved, the claw 6 mm. long, the auricles curved and reflexed; keel as long 
as the wings, incurved, obtuse, the petals united for the upper fifth to the 
tip, the claws 6 mm. long, the auricles curved, reflexed; stamens mona- 
delphous; style glabrous; stigma capitate, lop-sided; pods stipitate, the stipe 
1.5 to 2 cm. long, the body linear-oblong, compressed, dark brown, much 
wrinkled, becoming brittle in age, 12 to 15 em. long, 4 em. broad, with a‘ 
single longitudinal ridge 3 te 4 mm. from the ventral suture; seeds subglobose, 
shiny, dark red or rarely yellow, 18 to 24 mm. long, 15 to 20 mm. broad, 10 to 
15 mm. thick; hilum linear, 23 mm. long about two-fifth of the circumference. 
Porto Rico: Maricao, Sintensis 452 (U. S.). Monte Montoso, Britton & 
Pennell 4151 (U. S.). Cuatro Calles, Shafer 2823 (U. 8.). Lares to Calle- 
jones (fide Urban). Near Quebradillas (fide Urban). 
DoMINICcAN Repusric: Near Puerto Plata in forests of Loma Isabel de la 
Torre, Hggers 2659, type (fide Urban). Constanza, Tiirckheim 3032 (fide 
Urban). San Pedro de Macorifs, Rose, Fitch & Russell 4184 (U. 8.). Bara- 
hona, near Bahoruco, Fuertes 1186, 1401 (fide Urban). 
St. THomas: Signal Hill, Eggers (fide Urban). 
4. Canavalia nitida (Cav.) Piper. 
Clementea nitida Cay. Anal. Cienc. Nat. 7: 63. 1804. Type grown in the 
Botanical Garden at Madrid from seed sent from Cuba. 
Canavalia bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 119. 1906. Described 
from specimens from Abaco and Eleuthera. 
Canavalia ekmani Urban, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 13: 317. 1918. Type from 
Cojimar, Habana, Cuba, Ekman 364. Other specimens cited are Shafer 
587 and Wilson (? Shafer) 11517. 
Stems twining, terete, reflexed-strigillose; petioles glabrous or nearly so; 
petiolules puberulent; leaflets coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic or oblong- 
lanceolate, often abruptly narrowed toward the tip, obtuse or sometimes 
emarginate at apex, rounded or truncate at base, glabrous, 4 to 7 cm. long; 
peduncles stout, shorter than the 10 to 50-flowered thyrse; pedicellar glands 
prominent; bracteoles orbicular, 1 mm. long, ciliolate; calyx campanulate, 6 
to 8 mm. long, glabrous, the broad upper lip emarginate, as long as the tube, 
the lower lip 2.5 mm. long, 3-lobed; corolla purple; standard with a claw 5 
mm. long, the blade 11 mm. long, orbicular, reflexed, auriculate at base; wings 
14 mm. long, unguiculate, auricled, pink; keel faleate, as long as the wings, 
auricled, pink; ovary sericeous, 12-ovuled; style glabrous; pods dark brown, 
somewhat wrinkled, linear-oblong, compressed, 10 to 15 cm. long, stipitate, 
beaked, each valve with a single rib very near the ventral suture; seeds red, 
151212 mm., the linear hilum one-fourth the circumference. 
BAHAMAS: Marsh Harbor, Abaco, Brace 1620 (N._Y., U. S.), type of C. 
bahamensis. Tarpum Bay, Hleuthera, Coker 411 (N. Y.). Mangrove Bay, 
Andros, Brace 4982 (U. 8.). Staniard Creek, Andros, Small ¢& Carter 8918 
(U. S., Kew). 
