PIPER—CANAVALIA AND WENDEROTHIA 583 
long, the lateral teeth broader, thinner, and shorter than the median tooth; 
standard “lilac,” striate-nerved, broadly oval, not retuse, attenuate into the 
short claw, reflexed from near the base, 2.5 cm. long, bearing a conic callosity 
on each side of the median groove where the petal is reflexed; wings “rose”, 
oblong, each bearing a semicircular auricle at base, 18 mm. long including the 
short claw (4 mm. long); keel “ rose-lilac”, broadly faleate, the two petals 
united above, the beak narrowed but blunt, sometimes twisted at tip, auricled at 
base, short-clawed, 3 cm. long, equaling the standard; stamens and style not ex- 
amined; pods short-pediceled, linear, compressed, short-beaked, covered with 
short reddish hairs, one rib close to each suture, the third 3 mm. from the 
ventral rib, 10 to 12 cm. long; seeds “ oblong, compressed, the linear hilum 
shorter than the seed.” 
Brazit: Organ Mountains, Province of Rio de Janeiro, Gardner 355 (Kew). 
Near Caldas, Minas Geraes, Regnell 82, 83 (Kew). Sumidouro, Langsdorff 178 
(Kew). Without locality, Sello (Kew). 
Bentham cites also the following: Near Cabo d’Agosta in Serro Frio, Minas 
Geraes, Martius (type) ; Minas Geraes, St. Hilaire. 
I have seen no pods with well-developed seeds, but these are described by 
Bentham. There were available no flowers good enough to permit examination 
of the pistil and stamens, and these organs are not described by Bentham. 
According to St. Hilaire (ex Bentham) the flowers have the odor of sweet 
peas. 
10. Wenderothia lasiocalyx (Kuntze) Piper. 
Canavalia lasiocalyxy Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 3”: 55, 1898. 
Twining shrub; stems slender, terete, pubescent with spreading fulvous 
hairs; petioles fulvous-pubescent, shorter than the leafiets; stipules not 
seen; stipels subulate, minute; leaflets firm-membranaceous, elliptic, rounded 
at base, acutely short-acuminate at apex, green and sparsely puberulent 
above, paler and sparsely pubescent beneath, especially on the nerves, 5 to 8 
em. long, the ribs prominent beneath; petiolules 5 mm. long, densely puberu- 
lent; peduncles densely fulyous-puberulent, mostly shorter than the in- 
florescence; thyrses dense when young, 15 to 20-flowered; pedicels very short, 
their basal glands large; bracteoles ovate, acute, densely pubescent; calyx 
1 em. long, streaked with dark purple lines, densely fulvous-pubescent with 
appressed hairs, the broad upper lip truncate and shorter than the tube, the 
lower lip small, with three lance-ovate acuminate lobes; corolla purple, 3 
cm. long; standard oblong-ovate, emarginate, the claw broad, 6 mm. long, the 
callosities conic, prominent; wings linear-spatulate, obtuse, without median 
auricles; keel narrow, curved, rostrate, 3 cm. long, slightly incurved at tip; 
pods linear, 12 mm. broad, 8 to 10 cm. long, compressed, densely villous witi 
spreading fulvous hairs, one rather prominent longitudinal ridge close to 
the ventral suture, a second less prominent one very close to the dorsal 
suture, and a third median one 4 to 5 mm. distant from the ventral suture and 
nearly twice as far from the dorsal; seeds ellipsoid, much compressed TX5X5 
amm., pale brown, splotched with dark brown, shiny, the linear hilum nearly 
as long as the seed, about one-third its circumference, covered with a thick 
white caruncle. 
Type collected by Kuntze at Santa Cruz de Sierra, Bolivia, altitude 1,000 
meters. 
Bourvia: Yapacani, June, 1892, in fruit, Kuntze (U. §., N. Y.). Yungas, 
Bang 586, in flower (Gray, N. Y., U. 8.) ; Rusby 1825 (U. S.). Mapiri, Rusby 
2856 (N. Y.). Machichoirisa River, Williams 1584 (N. Y., U. 8.), with mature 
fruit. 
