PIPER—CANAVALIA AND WENDEROTHIA 573 
Urban cites the following specimens: Bocolet River at Calder Hall, Tobago, 
Eggers 5705 (type). Tobago, Broadway 3446, 3857. St. Vincent, Smith 1179. 
From Urban’s long descriptions of the floral parts, not possible with our 
scanty material, the following details are compiled: Standard obovate, deeply 
notched, 2.5 cm. long, auriculate, bicallose, the claw 5 mm. long. 
22. Canavalia boliviana Piper, sp. nov. 
Herbaceous; stems stout, terete, sparsely strigillose; petioles stout, sparsely 
strigillose, half as long as the leaflets; stipules triangular, 2 mm. long; stipels 
aculeolate; petiolules puberulent, 6 mm. long; leaflets membranaceous, 
broadly oval to ovate, 7 to 12 em. long, 5 to 10 em. broad, truncate to broadly 
deltoid at base, very abruptly acuminate to a short broad tip, this obtuse and 
apiculate, very sparsely strigillose on both surfaces, the 5 or 6 pairs of lateral 
nerves prominent ; peduncles stout, exceeding the leaves, 10 to 80-flowered ; 
pedicellar glands prominent; calyx campanulate, 14 mm. long, nearly glabrous, 
the upper lip emarginate, shorter than the tube, the lower lip 8-toothed, the 
lateral lobes obtuse, the median slightly longer, ovate, acutish; bracteoles 
orbicular; corolla purple, 4 cm. long; standard emarginate, the limb broadly 
ovate; wings spatulate-oblanceolate, shorter than the standard; heel much 
curved, broad; pods stipitate, linear, straight, much compressed, beaked with 
a recurved tip, dark brown, sparsely strigillose, 10 to 20 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, 
the intermediate rib most prominent and 2 to 3 mm. from the ventral rib; 
inner layer not separating ; seeds ellipsoid, compressed, 15X8X5 mm., olive- 
yellow, speckled and spotted with brown dots. the black hilum as long as the 
seed, broadest at the micropylar end, surrounded by a narrow border of 
brown. 
. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,122,148, collected at Espifa, 
Bolivia, altitude 1,050 meters, July 25, 1921, in ripe fruit, by O. E. White (no. 
616). The flowers are described from specimens grown at MeNeill, Missis- 
sippi, from seeds of no. 616. 
Bourvia: Espirito Santo, Bang 1274, young pods only (U. 8.). Cocapata, 
Bang 2195, flowers just fallen, “climbing on high trees in the forest, the 
flowers blue” (U. S., Mo.). 
23. Canavalia amazonica Piper, sp. nov. 
Stems herbaceous, climbing, terete, strigillose when young, glabrate; petioles 
glabrous, shorter than the leaflets; stipules and stipels not seen, petiolules 
5 mm. long, puberulent; leaflets membranaceous, oblong-oval, obtusish to 
acutish, cuneate at base, glabrous above, sparsely strigillose beneath, 8 to 10 
em. long, 6 em. broad, widest in the middle; peduncles stout, 10 to 15 cm. 
long, as long or longer than the thyrses; pedicellar glands prominent; thyrses 
15 to 25-flowered; bracteoles minute, orbicular; calyx campanulate, sparsely 
strigillose, 10 mm. long, the emarginate upper lip not as long as the tube, the 
lower lip 3-toothed, 2 mm. long, the teeth triangular-ovate; corolla “red,” 
12 mm. long; standard obovate, emarginate, biauriculate (?), bearing two 
linear callosities below the middle; wings equaling the keel; keel falcate, 
obtuse, as long as the standard ; pods densely strigillose when young, becoming 
glabrous, nearly straight, linear, compressed, brownish, hooked at tip, 15 cm. 
long, 2.5 em. broad, 3-ribbed, one rib close to each suture the second 6 to 7 
mm. distant from the ventral rib; seeds (scarcely mature) ellipsoid, com- 
pressed, brown, 16X10X4 mm. ; hilum linear, 13 mm. long about two-fifths the 
circumference of the seed. 
Type in the Kew Herbarium, collected at Barra, Province of Rio Negro, 
Brazil, by Richard Spruce (no. 1468). Spruce 1868, collected in May, 1851, 
also belongs to this species. 
