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Brazi_: Rio de Janeiro, Riedel 446, in fruit (U. S.). Without locagity, 
Pohl, type (Kew). Rio de Janeiro Province, Glaziow 6508 (Kew). Minas 
Geraes Province, Claussen 134, 45 (Kew). 
Bentham cites also specimens from Piauhy Province, Martius; Goyaz Prov- 
ince, Weddell; and Rio de Janeiro, Luschnath. 
7. Canavalia variicolor Piper, nom. nov. 
Canavalia ensiformis versicolor Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 37: 55. 1898. Not C. 
versicolor Rodrig. 1894. 
Stems herbaceous(?), terete, slender, sparsely strigillose; petioles strigillose, 
longer than the leaflets; petiolules puberulent; leaflets membranaceous, broad- 
ly ovate, acuminate and apiculate, rounded or truncate at base, glabrous above, 
puberulent on the veins beneath, finely reticulate, 3-nerved from the base, 
5 cm. long, nearly as broad; peduncles about as long as the inflorescence; 
thyrse about 10-flowered; pedicellar glands very prominent, bud- -shaped ; 
flowers not seen; pod (nearly mature) sessile, finely strigillose, nearly straight, 
linear, compressed, short-beaked, brownish, 13 cm. long, 1.6 to 1.8 ecm. broad, 
each valve with 3 small ribs, one-rib near each suture, the third 4 mm. from 
the ventral rib; seeds immature, the hilum as long as the seed. 
BraziL: Villa Maria, Mattogrosso, Kuntze (U. 8.). 
Kuntze’s description is very brief and relates merely to the color of the 
flowers, “petals yellow or ochraceous, the vexillum at length bluish.” The 
plant differs from all other known Canavalias in the peculiar leaflets, pal- 
mately 3-ribbed from the base. 
8. Canavalia puberula Piper, sp. nov. 
Whole plant whitish-puberulent; stems slender, terete, herbaceous; petioles 
much shorter than the leaflets; petiolules 4 mm. long; stipules and stipels 
not seen; leaflets membrenaceous, oval or slightly ovate, short-acuminate, 
with very blunt apiculate tip, obtuse to rounded at base, densely white-puberu- 
lent on both faces, 5 to 10 cm. long; peduncles about equaling the 10 to 20- 
flowered thyrses; pedicellar glands prominent; bracteoles minute, orbicular; 
calyx campanulate, 10 mm. long, the broad emarginate upper lip shorter than 
the tube, the lower lip 3 mm. long, with three triangular acute teeth, the 
median longer and thicker than the lateral ones; corolla 20 to 25 mm. long, 
the petals of equal length; standard broadly obovate, deeply notched, reflexed, 
attenuate at base to a short broad claw, biauriculate at base, the auricles in- 
flexed, bearing two lunate callosities near the base where the petal is reflexed; 
wing oblong-spatulate, obtuse, a short blunt tooth near the middle, an oblong 
auricle near the base, the claw short; keel faleate, the petals united from 
above the middle nearly to the blunt tip, each with an acute basal auricle and 
a short claw; stamens monadelphous; style glabrous; stigma capitate; young 
pods densely sericeous, with 8 ribs on each valve, one near each suture, the 
third near the middle, 
Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected in 
Santa Marta, Colombia, by H. H. Smith (no. 2047). Specimens of the same 
collection are in the U. S. National Herbarium and at Kew. 
VENEZUELA: Guegue, Jan. 25, 1855, endler 271 (KKew). 
Probably a species of the section Fucanavalia. 
9. Canavalia maritima (Aubl.) Thou. Journ. de Bot. Desv. 1: 80. 1813, 
Dolichos maritimus Aubl. Pl. Guian. 765. 1775. Based on a plant from 
French Guiana. 
Dolichos roseus Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 105. 1788. Apparently based on 
Dolichos maritimus repens P. Br. Civ. Nat. Hist. Jam. 293. 
