PIPER—CANAVALIA AND WENDEROTHIA 571 
slightly longer and thicker; corolla “light purple” or “ white”; petals equal 
in length; standard broadly oblong, notched at apex, 3 cm. long, narrowed 
at base into a short broad claw, bearing two small inflexed auricles at base 
and just above the claw two lunate callosities; wings linear-oblong, short- 
unguiculate, the oblong basal auricle inflexed; keel falcate, the petals united 
from just above the middle nearly to the tip, each oblong auricle slightly 
inflexed, the claws slender; stamens monadelphous; anthers oblong; style 
glabrous; stigma capitate; pods densely strigillose when young, glabrous or 
nearly so when mature, linear, stipitate, beaked at tip, 15 to 20 em. long, 
3 cm. broad, the inner layer separating, 8 to 12-seeded, 3-ribbed on each valve, 
one rib close to each suture, the third 5 mm. from the ventral rib; seeds 
ellipsoid, 15X10X7 mm., ochraceous; hilum oblong, broadest at the micropylar 
end, 10 mm. long or about one-fifth the circumference of the seed. 
Type in the Kew Herbarium, collected at Biscaina, Venezuela, September 
7, 1855, by August Fendler (no. 248). A specimen of the same collection is 
in the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
VENEZUELA: Caracas, L. H. & Ethel Zoe Bailey 300 (U. 8.) Ciudad Bolivar, 
L. H. & Ethel Zoe Bailey 1908 (U. S.). 
CoLomBIA: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 289, 290 (Kew, N. Y., Mo., U. 8.). 
19. Canavalia leptophylla Piper, sp. nov. 
Annual, herbaceous, twining, growing to a height of 2.5 meters or more, the 
whole herbage sparsely strigillose; stems terete; petioles as long as the leaf- 
lets; stipules narrowly lanceolate, very early fugacious; leaflets thin-mem- 
branaceous, ovate-oblong to slightly obovate, sharply acuminate, rounded or 
truncate at base, densely but minutely ciliate, 6 to 12 cm. long; petiolules 
densely puberulent; stipels minute, lanceolate; thyrses few-flowered ; calyx 
green, sparsely strigillose, the large upper lip emarginate, the lower lip with 
three small acute teeth, the middle one narrower and twice as long as the 
lateral ones; corolla pale violet, 2 cm. long, the wings as long as the blunt 
keel; pods linear, straight, with a recurved sharp beak, dark-colored, sparsely 
strigillose, 12 to 20 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 cm. broad, conspicuously angled by the 
intermediate ridge, this 5 to 6 mm. from the suture, the sides of the valves 
nearly flat; seeds 5 to 10, olive-ochre to dark olive-buff (Ridgway), ellipsoid, 
somewhat compressed, 12 to 16 mm. long, 8 to 10 mm. wide, 8 mm. thick; 
hilum lanceolate or broadest at micropylar end, bordered by a narrow band 
of dark brown, three-fourths as long as the seed, nearly one-third its circum- 
ference; first true leaves of seedlings unifoliolate, broadly ovate, subcordate, 
conspicuously and sharply acuminate. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,021,963, collected at Huigra, 
Ecuador, altitude about 1,200 meters, August 22, 1918, by J. N. Rose (no. 
22295), and cultivated in the greenhouse at Washington, D. C. 
Rusby & Pennell 307 (N. Y.), July 24, 1917, from Quebrada de Angeles above 
Natogaima, Colombia, is apparently the same. 
20. Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC. Prodr. 2: 404. 1825. 
Dolichos gladiatus Jacq. Coll. Bot. 2: 276. 1788. Jacquin described the 
species from plants grown in the greenhouse at Vienna. 
Canavalia maxima Thou. Journ. de Bot. Desv. 1: 78. 1813. Thouars’ name 
is based on the Bara-mareca of Rheede, a plant of Malabar, India. 
Annual or in the tropics perhaps perennial, climbing to a height of several 
meters; stems green, refilexed-strigillose when young, at length glabrous or 
nearly so; stipules lanceolate, thickened at base, quickly fugacious; petioles 
shorter than the leaflets; petiolules puberulent; stipels subulate, minute ; 
