566 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 
Cabaiias, Palmer & Riley 752 (U. 8.). Mariel, Palmer & Riley 726 (U. S.). 
Vivijagua, Isle of Pines, Britton & Wilson 146938 (U. S.). 
Porto Rico: San Juan, Underwood & Griggs 925 (U. 8.). Isabel Segunda, 
Shafer 2401 (U. 8.). Arecibo, Cook & Collins 1054 (U. 8.). Catano, Cook & 
Collins 987 (U. S.). Santurce, Heller 52 (U. S., Kew). 
St. VINCENT: Guilding (Kew). 
Sr. Tuomas: Soldier’s Bay, Eggers 318 (Kew). 
Sr. Croix: Frederiksted, Rose, Fitch & Russell 3504 (U. 8.); Ricksecker 
25 (U. &§.). 
Dominica: Imray 34 (Kew). 
MONTSERRAT: Plymouth, Shafer 365 (U. S.). 
DoMINICAN Repustic: San Pedro de Macoris, Rose, Fitch & Russell 4262 
(U. S.). Santo Domingo, Rose, Fitch & Russell 3698 (U. S.). Haina, Faris 
146 (U. 8.). 
GUADELOUPE: Duss 2652 (U. S.). 
JAMAICA: Port Antonio, Fredholm 3057 (U. 8.). Without locality, Distin 
(Kew). 
BaHAMAS: Deep Creek, Andros,. Brace 5112 (U. S.). Pompey Bay, Acklin’s 
Island, Brace 4416 (U. 8.). 
Dominica: Rosalie, Lloyd 727 (Kew). 
YucaTAn: Chichancanab, Gawmer 1502, 1542, 2243 (Field). San Anselmo, 
Gaumer 1201 (Field).? 
Costa Rica: Boca Panama, T'onduz 9146 (U. S.); W. W. & H. E. Rovwlee 
477 (U.58.). 
PANAMA: Chagres, Fendler 80 (Kew, U. S.). Colén, Hayes 370 (Kew). 
CoLomBIA: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 292 (U. S., Kew). Cartagena, Heri- 
berto 183 (U.8.). Western Colombia, Cuming 1204 (Kew). 
BriTIsH GUIANA: Without locality, Lechmann, January, 1918 (Kew); Jen- 
man 2012 (Kew). 
FRENCH GUIANA: Without locality, Sagot 147 (Kew). 
Brazi_: Without locality, Sello; Martius 1133 (Kew). Zapativa, Pohl 
(Kew). Fernando Noronha, Ridley (Kew). 
GaLApacos IsLaAnpDs: Bindloe Island, Snodgrass & Heller 770 (U. S.). 
10. Canavalia apiculata Piper, sp. nov. 
Stems herbaceous, stout, terete, strigillose with reflexed hairs; petioles 
stout, strigillose, half as long as the leaflets; petiolules very strigillose, 5 
mm. long; stipules triangular-ovate, thick at base; stipels subulate, stiff, 
somewhat persistent; leaflets membranaceous, thick, breadly obovate, rounded 
or abruptly acuminate-apiculate at tip, broadly deltoid at base, prominently 
reticulate, sparsely strigillose, shorter than the thyrses; peduncles stout, erect, 
about as long as the leaves, 6 to 8-flowered; pedicellar glands large; calyx 
campanulate, strigillose, longitudinally suleate when dry, 10 cm. long, the 
broad emarginate upper lip shorter than the tube, the lower lip 3-toothed, 
the teeth ovate-triangular, the median longest; corolla 18 to 18 mm. long; 
standard obovate, emarginate, auricled, bicallose; wings as long as the keel; 
young pods densely silvery-strigillose; mature pods oblong-linear, stipitate, 
compressed, nearly straight, strongly beaked, 10 to 12 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, 
the valves thick, each with three longitudinal ridges, one near each suture, 
the third very prominent and 4 to 5 mm. from the ventral suture; seeds 
ellipsoid, compressed, dark brown, 12X95 mm.; hilum broadest at the micro- 
pylar end, one-fourth the circumference of the seed. 
*These Yucatéin specimens are not typical and may be distinct. The first- 
named locality is in the interior of Yucatén. 
