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17 mm. long, campanulate, minutely strigillose; bracteoles orbicular ; calyx 15 
to 17 mm. long, campanulate, minutely strigillose, the broad upper lip as long 
as the tube and recurved-apiculate, the lower lip 3 to 4 mm. long, with ovate 
teeth, the median slightly longer and thicker; standard 4 cm. long, ovate, 
emarginate, reflexed, attenuate at base to a short claw, bearing two linear 
callosities near the base, one on each side of the median groove; wings linear, 
twisted, 2 to 5 em. long, short-clawed, the basal auricle semicircular; keel 
longer than the wings, falcate, the petals united toward the tip, the narrowed 
beak curved into a complete spiral, the basal auricle small, blunt; style 
glabrous, the stigma terminal, with an inflexed appendage; pods not seen, 
BraziL: Pilar, Parahyba, Pohl, type (Kew). Near Goyaz, Burchell 7079 
(Kew). Santarem, ParA, Ducke 17088 (U.S.). Alcobaza, Ducke 16194 (U. S.). 
Reported also by Bentham from Salinas, Weddell. Malme (Ark. fir Bot. 
4': 7. 1905) reports the plant from Santa Anna da Chapada, Matto Grosso, 
stating that the flowers appear in May and June and are odorous like sweet 
peas, and that the standard is whitish with violet spots or bands which 
coalesce near the margin. 
A young pod on the Santarem specimens is finely puberulent and 3-ribbed, 
evidently very similar to that of W. villosa. 
8. Wenderothia hirsuta Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Sci. Brux. 107: 192. 1843. 
Canavalia hirsuta Standl. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 23: 495. 1922. 
Stems terete, woody, densely pubescent, the hairs usually fulvous; petioles 
rusty-pubuescent, mostly shorter than the leaflets; stipules and stipels not 
seen; petiolules very pubescent, 3 to 4 mm. long; leaflets membranaceous, 
ovate, rounded or subcordate at base, long-acuminate (the tip acute), sparsely 
puberulent above, densely so beneath, reticulate-veined, 8 to 12 em. long; 
peduncles 10 to 15 cm. long, densely pubescent, much longer than the very 
dense, 15 to 25-flowered thyrses; pedicellar glands large, subglobose; brac- 
teoles orbicular; calyx densely appressed-pubescent with fulvous hairs, 15 to 
18 mm. long, the upper lip entire, apiculate, the lower lip 7 mm. long, with 3 
subequal, broadly ovate, obtuse lobes; corolla rose-purple; standard oblong, 
emarginate, reflexed, 3 cm. long, bearing on each side of the median groove 
toward the base a narrow linear callosity, the slender claw 8 mm. long; 
wings shorter than the keel, linear, twisted, each with a rounded auricle at 
base and a slender claw 7 mm. long; keel 3 cm. long, faleate, rostrate and 
usually spiral at tip, the petals united above, the basal auricles rounded; 
Style glabrous; stigma capitate; pod not seen. 
The original specimens (not seen) were from Rincén, Talea, Oaxaca, Mexico, 
Galeotti 3424. The following specimens agree perfectly with the description: 
Mexico: Orizaba, Botteri 1152 (U. S., Kew, Gray); Bourgeau 2668, 2916 
(Kew, Gray). 
GUATEMALA: Cobfn, Tiirckheim 287 (U. S., Kew, Gray). 
9. Wenderothia picta (Mart.) Piper. 
Canavalia picta Mart.; Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. Naturg. 2: 185. 1838. 
Stems slender, woody, terete, hirsutulous; stipules and stipels not seen; 
petioles hirsutulous, about as long as the leaflets; petiolules densely hirsutul- 
ous, 3 mm. long; leaflets thin, coriaceous, oblong to narrowly ovate, rounded to 
subcordate at base, long-acuminate, with blunt apiculate tip, sparsely reddish- 
puberulent when young, especially on the veins, becoming glabrous, 8 to 12 
cm. long; peduncles terete, hirsutulous, mostly longer than the thyrses, 6 to 15 
em. long; pedicellar glands roundish, prominent; thyrses 10 to 20-flowered ; 
bracteoles orbicular, caducous; calyx campanulate, minutely strigillose, 18 mm. 
long, the upper lip abruptly apiculate, as long as the tube, the lower lip 3 mm. 
