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PIPER—CANAVALIA AND WENDEROTHIA 563 
Gupa: Camagtiey, Shafer 587. Sierra Guane, Pinar del Rio, Shafer 10527 
(U. 8.). Sierra de Anafe, Shafer 11517 (U. S.). Sumidero, Shafer 13518 
(U. S.). Without locality, Rugel (N. Y.). ; 
No characters have been detected by which C. bahamensis and C. ekmani 
can be kept distinct. With scarcely room for doubt, Clementea nitida Cav. is 
the same thing, as indicated by Cavanilles’s detailed description and figure. 
In herbarium specimens, however, the leaves can scarcely be called shiny. 
5. Canavalia macropleura Piper, sp. nov. 
Probably a climbing vine; stems woody, terete, sparingly reflexed-strigillose ; 
petioles sparsely strigillose, 12 to 20 cm. long, about equaling the leaflets; 
stipules caducous, not seen; petiolules 7 mm. long, densely hirsutulous with 
stiff hairs; stipels subulate, persistent, 4 mm. long; leaflets membranous, thin- 
nish, ovate or elliptic-ovate, rounded at base, acuminate and apiculate at apex, 
finely reticulate, becoming glabrous above, sparsely strigillose beneath, 15 cm. 
long; peduncles stout, strigillose with reflexed hairs; thyrses about 12-flowered, 
the pedicels very short; bractlets orbicular ; calyx campanulate, sparsely strigil- 
lose, 18 mm. long, the broad upper lip emarginate, the lower lip with 3 ovate 
teeth about 2 mm. long, the middle one longest; corolla 4 em. long; standard 
orbicular, erect in anthesis, longer than the wings; keel curved, somewhat pro- 
duced ; pods on pedicels 1 to 2 cm. long, the young pods strigillose; mature pods 
linear, brownish, much compressed, sharply apiculate with a recurved beak, 28 
em. long, 4 em. broad, the inner layer closely adherent, each valve with a broad 
longitudinal rib near each suture, the ventral one 10 mm. broad, the dorsal one 
5 mm. wide; seeds dark brown, semicircular in outline, much compressed, 
27X18X4 mm., the linear hilum about the whole length of the convex border, 
over half the circumference of the seed. 
Type in the Kew Herbarium, collected in Venezuela, a few miles north of the 
Colombian border, by August Fendler (no. 251). This specimen is in fruit. 
Flowering specimens were collected near Tovar, Venezuela, by Fendler (no. 248). 
Very well marked by the two broad ribs on each valve. The only good flower 
on the specimen was not dissected. 
6. Canavalia parviflora Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 157%: 177. 1859-62. 
Stems woody, terete, glabrous; leaflets thin, slightly coriaceous, oval to ovate, 
abruptly short-acuminate, with blunt and apiculate tip, rounded or truncate at 
base, sparsely strigillose on both faces, 6 to 10 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. broad; 
petioles shorter than the leaflets, glabrous or nearly so; petiolules 5 to 7 mm. 
long, glabrous or puberulent; stipules and stipels not seen; peduncles much 
shorter than the 15 to 30-flowered thyrses, the pedicellar glands prominent. 
hemispheric; bracteoles orbicular; calyx 10 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely 
strigillose, the upper lip broad, emarginate, the lower lip 1.5 mm. long, with 3 
small ovate thin-margined teeth, the median slightly narrower and longer ; 
standard 1.5 em. long, thickish, almost orbicular, deeply emarginate, strongly 
nerved, reflexed in anthesis, bicallose near the base, the callosities puberulent, 
auricled at base, the auricles inflexed, the slender claw half as long as the 
blade; wings 13 mm. long, oblanceolate, concave, gradually attenuate at base 
into the claw, bearing an elongate recurved auricle just below the middle; keel 
12 mm. long, the blade rhomboid and each petal bearing an inflexed auricle at 
base, the slender claw as long as the blade; style exceeding the stamens, 
sparsely bearded on the lower side; stigma capitate; mature pods thick, woody, 
brown, glabrous, straight, 10 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, with a short sharp incurved 
beak and bearing two sharp ribs, one very close to each suture; seeds 18X10X2 
mm., oblong, much compressed, brown, shiny; hilum linear, nearly as long as 
the seed and more than one-third its circumference. 
