PIPER—-CANAVALIA AND WENDEROTHIA 575 
BraziL: “ Sebastiano politanae in sylvis,” Martius in 1817, apparently the 
type and that cited by Bentham as “In sylvis Catingas provinciae Bahia,” 
specimen in flower (Munich). Piauhy Province, Martius, in young fruit 
(Munich). Bahia, Salzmann, in flower (Kew, Mo.). Utinga, Bahia, Blanchet 
2748, in flower (Kew). Baixa Verde, Rio Grande do Norte, “ growing over a 
cactus tree 25 feet high and aiding in its destruction; on very dry sandy soil,” 
E. C. Green, S. P. I. no. 41816; cultivated in the greenhouse at Washington. 
26. Canavalia anomala Piper, sp. nov. 
Stems herbaceous, terete, sparsely strigillose; petioles sparsely strigillose, 
nearly as long as the middle leaflet ; petiolules densely rusty-strigillose, 6 mm. 
long; leaflets membranaceous, broadly oval or slightly obovate, very short- 
acuminate but the tip blunt, narrowed and somewhat truncate at base, sparsely 
strigillose, 9 em. long; peduncles shorter than the thyrses; calyx campanulate, 
sparsely strigillose, the upper lip broad, emarginate(?), the lower lip with 
three small triangular teeth; corolla not seen; young pod densely sericeous ; 
pods linear, straight, dark brown, sparsely strigillose, 12 to 14 cm. long, each 
valve with four ribs, one near each suture, one 4 mm. distant from each of 
the sutural ribs, the median two more prominent; inner layer loose, papery ; 
seeds ellipsoid, 13X1QX7 mm., clay-colored, a narrow brown border about the 
hilum; hilum rather broad, two-thirds the length of the seed and about one- 
fourth its circumference. | 
Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected at edge 
of forest, three miles east of Masina, Santa Marta, Colombia, by H. H. Smith 
(no, 681). The specimen is in fruit. 
There are two sheets of specimens, part of each being the foliage of a striate- 
stipuled plant, probably either Bradburya or Clitoria. 
The species is unique in its pod characters. 
SPECIES DOUBTFUL OR NOT SEEN. 
Canavalia microsperma Urban, Symb, Antill. 5: 3873. 1908. 
“ Canavalia microsperma Urb. (n. sp.) ramis hornotinis pilos parcos breves 
refractos gerentibus, mox glabrescentibus; foliolis ovali-ellipticis, apice plicato 
obtusissimis, 7.5-8.5 cm. longis, 3.5-4 cm. latis, chartaceo-coriaceis, glabris, 
nervis supra tenuiter prominentibus, parvum v. obsolete, subtus manifeste reti- 
culato-anastomosantibus; legumine oblongo-lineari, 14-15 cm. longo, 3.5 cm. lato, 
compresso glabro, juxta suturam ventralem acutatam breviter bialato; semini- 
bus 8-10, in sicco nigrescentibus, ca. 11 mm. longis, 9 mm. latis, hilo % cir- 
cuitus aequante.” 
“ Volubilis. Rami teretes, plus minus striati. Stipulae triangulares, 1-1.5 
mm. longae, valde deciduae. Folia 3-4 cm. longe petiolata; foliola lateralia 
3.54 mm., terminale ca. 15 mm. longe petiolulata, hoc basi rotundatum, cae- 
tera subtruncata, apice ipso submarginata, nervo medio supra prominente, 
lateralibus 7-8 sub angulo ca. 60° abeuntibus. Inflorescentiae cum pedunculo 
ca. 7 em. longo ca. 18 em. longae; flores e vestigiis pluriatim e gibberibus pro- 
deuntes; pedicelli fructiferi ca. 1 em. longi. Legumen 7-10 mm. longe stipita- 
tum, inter semina singula non constrictum, apice oblique truncatum, unilat- 
eraliter apiculatum, nervis transversis, obsoletis, alis lateralibus 2-3 mm. a 
margine ipso distantibus, 1-1.8 mm. altis, in sicco bruneum. Semina oblique 
ovato-rotundata, convexa, 6 mm. crassa, hilo lineari.” 
“Hab. in Cuba: Ramén de la Sagra.” 
CANAVALIA RUTILANS DC. Prodr. 2: 404. 1825. 
“©. rutilans, foliolis ovali-oblongis obtusis, leguminibus rectis latitudine 
quadruplo longioribus. In Mexico. Mucuna rutilans fl. mexic. ined. Flores 
seminaque rubro-punicei. Forsan 4 C. obtusifolié vix diversa.” 
CLITORIA BRASILIANA Vell. Fl. Flum. 7: 293. pl. 129. 1825. 
“Clitoria brasiliana. C. foliis ternatis, foliolis ovatis; perianthii denticulo 
producto, uncinato. (Tab. 129a, T. 7.) 
