PIPER—-CANAVALIA AND WENDEROTHIA 581 
This species was originally described by Rodrigues who found it at several 
places in Matto Grosso, namely barrancas of the Rio San Lourenco, banks of 
the Rio Coxipo, an affluent of the Cuyaba, and in the Engenho San Joao. 
Malme (Ark. for Bot. 4°: 9. 1905) reports it as abundant along the Cuyaba 
River at Santa Anna da Chapada, Matto Grosso, flowering profusely in April. 
Lindman (Bih. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl. 27: Afd. III. No. 14: 54. 1902) 
“ascribes the mechanism of the flower and its pollination by bumblebees as 
observed at Santa Cruz da Barra, Matto Grosso, but he erroneously refers the 
plant to C. picta Mart. . 
Braziu: Cuaba (Cuyaba) River, Matto Grosso, La Plata Exrped., Capt. Page 
(U. 8.). 
Paraguay: Between Rio Apa and Rfo Aquidaban, Fiebrig 5118 (Gray, Mo.). 
Apo River, Hassler 8287 (Kew). Cordillera de Altos, Hassler 42, 2542 (Kew). 
Tobati, Fiebrig 790 (Kew). San Bernardino, Hassler 12559 (U. S.). 
G. Wenderothia altipendula Piper, nom. nov. 
Canavalia altissima Macfad. Fl. Jam. 1: 292. 1837, excluding synonymy. 
Stems terete, woody, glabrous; petioles terete, slender, glabrous, mostly 
shorter than the leaflets; petiolules puberulent, 5 mm, long; stipules and 
stipels not seen; leaflets coriaceous, oblong to elliptic, rounded at base, acumi- 
nate to a blunt apiculate tip, glabrous, 6 to 15 cm. long; peduncles strigillose 
or glabrate, 6 to 10 em. long, mostly longer than the 10 to 15-flowered thyrses, 
the pedicellar glands large, hemispheric; bracteoles orbicular; calyx 10 to 12 
mm. long, minutely strigillose or glabrous, the broad upper lip apiculate’ and 
shorter than the tube, the lower lip 2 mm. long, the lateral teeth ovate, the 
median narrower and longer; corolla purple; standard 25 em. long, ovate, 
emarginate, reflexed, attenuate at base to a short claw, bearing two linear 
eallosities toward the base, one on each side of the median groove; wing 18 
mm, long, oblanceolate, twisted, the basal auricle semicircular, the claw 5 
mm. long; keel 20 mm. long, sharply falcate, obtuse-beaked, the petals united 
at tip, each with a blunt auricle at base, the claws 5 mm. long; stigma with 
an inflexed appendage; stamens monadelphous; anthers dark; ovary densely 
strigillose ; pods linear-oblong, brown, strigillose, 15 cm. long, 2.5 cm. broad, 
nearly straight, 3-ribbed, one rib near each suture, the intermediate one 6 to 
9 mm. from the ventral suture; seeds shiny, ellipsoid, compressed, brown, 
speckled with black, a pinkish border around the hilum, 15X10 mm.; hilum 
toward the micropylar end, about one-eighth the circumference of the seed. 
JAMAICA: Without locality, Macfadyen; Distin (Kew). Oxford, Marble 503 
(U. S., N. Y.). St. Margaret’s Bay, Fredholm 3270 (U. S., N. Y.). Santa 
Cruz Mountains, Britton 1305 (N. Y.). Bluefields, Britton 2004 (N. Y.). 
Mandeville, Britton 1012 (N. Y.). 
Macfadyen records the plant from Port Royal and St. John’s Hill. Fawcett 
and Rendle add Guava Ridge and near Troy. The species seems confined to 
Jamaica. Macfadyen thought his plant to be the same as Dolichos altissimus 
Jacq. (Mucuna altissima DC.), and thus derived his specific name. This mis- 
conception on his part should invalidate the specific name he used. 
7. Wenderothia grandiflora (Benth.) Piper. 
Canavalia grandiflora Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. Naturg. 2: 135. 1838. 
Whole plant glabrous to the inflorescence; stems terete, slender, woody; 
stipules and stipels not seen; petioles shorter than the leaflets; petiolules 
glabrous, 3 to 4 mm. long; leaflets thin, coriaceous, shiny above, elliptic to oval, 
rounded or subcordate at base, acuminate (the tip blunt and apiculate), 6 to 
10 em. long; peduncles 5 to 8 cm. long, about equaling the 10 to 20-flowered 
thyrses, the rachis glabrous or strigillose; bracteoles orbicular; calyx 15 to 
