192 FABACEAE. 



3. Canavali bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 119. 1905. 



A long vine. Leaflets thin, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 5-8 cm. long, 

 firm, glabrous, faintly veined, narrowed or obtuse at the base but not cordate, 

 the apex bluntly acute; racemes stout-peduncled, slightly pubescent, longer than 

 the leaves, nodose, pendent, 5-8 cm. long; pedicels curved, erect, 2-4 mm. long; 

 braetlets at base of calyx orbicular, 1 mm. broad, lacerate; calyx very oblique, 

 6-8 mm. long, with one small acute tooth opposite the keel-petals, the much 

 larger upper lip with three short broad teeth ; corolla about twice as long as the 

 calyx, the standard purple, the wings and strongly curved keel pink; legume 

 linear-oblong, compressed, about 12 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, 1-1.5 cm. thick, 

 short-pointed, narrowed at the base, not constricted, the stout stipe 1-2 cm. 

 long, the valves rather membranous; seeds oval, 1.5 cm. long*, 1 cm. thick, red- 

 brown, shining. 



Climbing over coastal shrubs, and in coppices, Abaco, Andros and Eleuthera : 

 Endemic. BAHAMA BAY-BEAN. 



20. CAJAN Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 326. 1763. 



A perennial stiff, slightly woody herb, finely puberulent or pubescent, with 

 pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, and showy yellow flowers in stalked axillary 

 racemes. Calyx narrowly campanulate, its lobes acute, the 2 upper ones partly 

 united. Standard nearly orbicular, reflexed; wings obliquely obovate; keel 

 with a blunt incurved tip. Ovary many-ovuled ; style thickened above ; stigma 

 oblique. Pod linear, flattened, acute and long-tipped, its valves impressed be- 

 tween the seeds. [From the Malayan name.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Cajan Cajan (L.) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 53. 1900. 



Cytisus Cajan L. Sp. PI. 739. 1753. 

 Ca janus indicus Spr. Syst. 3: 248. 1826. 



Bushy, branched, 2 m. high or less. Leaves petioled ; leaflets oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-8 cm. long, acute at both ends or obtuse at the base, 

 velvety on both sides, dark green above, pale beneath; racemes few-flowered, as 

 long as the leaves or longer; pedicels, rachis and calyx brown-pubescent; 

 flowers 12-16 mm. broad; pods 5-8 cm. long, 10-12 min. wide, 4-7-seeded; 

 seeds whitish, somewhat flattened, about 4 mm. thick. 



Waste and cultivated soils, spontaneous after cultivation, throughout the 

 islands from Andros and New Providence to Mai-iguana : Native of the Old World 

 tropics ; widely spontaneous in all American tropical regions. PIGEON PEA. 



21. DOLICHOLUS Medic. Vorles. Chur. Phys. Ges. 2: 354. 1787. 



[RHYNCHOSIA Lour.] 



Perennial twining trailing or erect herbs, with pinnately 1-3-foliolate 

 leaves, and yellow, mostly axillary and racemose flowers. Leaflets generally 

 punctate with resinous dots, not stipellate. Calyx 4-5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped; 

 standard obovate or orbicular, spreading or reflexed ; wings narrow ; keel in- 

 curved at the apex or falcate; stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary nearly 

 sessile; ovules 2, rarely 1 ; style filiform. Pod flat, oblong or obliquely orbicular, 

 2-valved, 1-2-seeded. [Greek, diminutive of Dolichos.~\ About 200 species, 

 natives of warm and temperate regions. Type species: Dolichos minimus L. 



Leaves prominently reticulate-veined beneath : long vine. 1. D. rcticulutits. 

 Leaves not prominently reticulate-veined ; small vines. 



Leaflets acuminate : pods 3-4 cm. long : seeds red. 2. D. Swartzii. 



Leaflets obtuse or acutish ; pods 1-2 cm. long; seeds olive. 3. D. minimus. 



