96 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
pedunculo folio duplo longiore apice paucifloro, pedicellis. 
subumbellatis v. brevissime racemosis. : 
Ad latera montis Tygerberg (IIL, D. a.), Jul. 1838. 
Krauss, n. 839. Our plant has the leaflets twice as large as 
they are indicated by Dr. Meyer, and the peduncles 2-25 
inches long. Flowers yellow, the top of the carina violet or 
purple. 
143. Scytalis helicopus, E. Mey. comm. p. 146, a.—Vigna 
helicopus, Walpers in Linnea 13, p. 534.—Inter arundines 
ad ripas flum. Umgani, Port Natal (V. c), Jun. 1839. 
Krauss, n. 233. 
144. Strophostyles Capensis, E. Mey.! comm. p. 147: 
Phaseolus Capensis, Thunb. DC. 1. c. p. 396, n. 55. 
a. ovata, E. Mey.! l.c. In solo argillaceo in Zitzikamma 
(IV. C. c.), Mart. 1839. Krauss, n. 843. 
y. longifolia, E. Mey. l.c. Cum preced. Krauss, n. 842. 
145. Canavalia emarginata, E. Mey.! comm. p. 148.— 
C. obtusifolia, B. emarginata, DC. prodr. 2, p. 404, n. 1.— 
Hb. Krauss, propr., absque loci natalis indicatione. 
2 M6. C. eryptodon, nob.—Glaberrima, caule suffruticoso, 
. volubili; foliolis oblongis, subacuminatis, obtusius-culis, 
basi signs, glabris; calycis labio inferiore 3-dentato, 
dentibus lateralibus minutis sub labio superiore maximo re- 
conditis. 
In sylvis primitivis circa Port Natal (V. c.), Jul. 1839 
Krauss, n. 296. 
Very near, as it seems, to C. monodon, E. Mey. comm 
p. 149, which differs “ foliolis ovato-oblongis," and princi- 
pally *calycis labio inferiore unidentato." Can Dr. Meyer 
have overlooked the two very small and hidden lateral teeth; 
The flowers are one inch long, the calyx something long 
than half the corolla, its upper lip very large and broad, 
longer than the tube. Folioles of the leaves about 2 inches 
long, 1 inch broad, almost insensibly attenuated into a short. 
rounded acumen, with a minute, often obsolete mucro. 
147. Erythrina Raja, nob.—Glaberrima. fruticosa, petiolo 
angulato foliorumque nervis aculeatis ; foliolis triangularibus, 
