238 LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) [Canavalia. 
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2. CHIROCALYX, (Sp. 5). 
5. E. latissima (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 151); arborescent, velvetty-lanu- 
ginous ; leaves on long petioles, pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets broadly 
ovate; obtuse, densely tomentose at each side, penninerved ; petioles 
and peduncles lanuginous ; spike ovoid, densely many-flowered ; calyx 
lanuginous, cleft down one side, the segments filiform ; corolla glabrous. 
L. Sandersoni, Harv. Thes. t. 61, 62. Chirocalyx mollissima, Meisn, ! in 
Hook, Lond. Journ. 2, p. 98. 
Has. Between the Basche, Omtata, and Omsamwubo, 1000-2000f., Drege. 
Tafelberge, Port Natal, Krauss/ Near Sterk Spruit, Sanderson! (Herb. D., Hk.) 
A scrubby tree, 10-12 feet high, with greyish-green foliage. Petioles 5-8 inches 
long to the leaf-pair ; the terminal leaflet 2-3 inches distant. Leafl. 5-8 inches broad, 
4-6 inches long, subtruncate at base. Peduncles 6-8 inches long, bearing a very 
dense spike of dull crimson flowers. Calyx spathaceous ; its slender limb-segments 
spreading like the fingers of a hand. Pubescence woolly, whitish, deciduous. In pub- 
lishing this in the Thesawrus as a novelty, I overlooked two previous ‘ discoveries!” 
LIV. CANAVALIA, 
Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip very large, truncate, emarginate or bifid, 
with broadly rounded lobes ; lower small, subentire or trifid. Veaxtllum 
ample, suborbicular, ridged at back, bi-callous within, with a short claw ; 
ale oblong, eared at base ; carina equalling the ale or longer, shorter 
than the vexillum, incurved. Dise sheathing. Stamens monadelphous, 
or imperfectly diadelphous, Ovary linear, multiovulate. Style incurved, 
glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Legume compressed, subfalcate, with 
transverse partitions between the seeds. Seeds compressed, with a linear 
sear. Endl. Gen. No. 6663. Benth Fl. Braz. XXIV. 
Climbing or prostrate, tropical or subtropical herbs or suffrutices, Leaves pin- 
nately trifoliolate, the terminal leaflet subdistant. Stipules small ; stipelle minute 
ornone. Racemes axillary, subspicate ; flowers solitary or in pairs, rosy, purplish 
or white; bracts deciduous. N. ame, from Canavali, the Malabar name. 4 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Leaflets suborbicular, very obtuse ; lower calyx-lip 3-lobed ... (1) obtusifolia. 
Leena, Serge pees lower calyx-lip minute, cee 4 
‘TG. obthaititg (BC Bera NE eh ttt ROR fl 
4. ©. obt (DC. Prod. 2; 4o4'); creeping, glabrous, or when 
—- young, silky-pubescent ; leaflets obovate or orbiculur, very obtuse ; upper 
—— lip of the calyx bilobed, much shorter than the tube, lower 3-lobed ; 
Ma nwo carina erostrate. Bendh.! 1.c. p. 178, tab. 48. Dolichos emarginata, Jacq. 
Near Schoenb. t. 221. Can. emarginata, Don. E. Mey. Comm. p. 148, 
oe Has. Caffraria, between Om ccdace } 
(eb. He, Si. D) Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege! Natal, Gueinzius 
vornmon near the sea, hout the tropics, often cultivated. Leaflets inches’ 
long, 2~3 broad, we en i Roig arti pe nl ‘aie florife rous near ahs went, 
thinly sky, » the subsessile flowers springing tubercles 
Fs C. Bonariensis (Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1199); leaflets oval-oblong, 
odtusely-acuminate, coriaceous ; upper lip of the calyx bifid, lower very 
AXIV. p. 178. C. monodon, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 149. 
C. eryptodon, Meisn.! Lond. Journ. 2, p. 96. e wee 
