60 FLORA OF JAMAICA Dioclea 



Stem stout, climbing over high trees ; branches, petioles, and inflor- 

 escence covered with brownish spreading hairs or glabrate. Leaflets 

 elliptical, more or less pubescent with adpressed hairs, longer and denser 

 on the midrib and nerves, or more or less glabrate, 8-16 cm. 1. Raceme 

 long, 1-5-3 dm. 1. Bracts long, lanceolate or linear, reflexed, deciduous, 

 about 1-5 cm. 1. Bracteoles small, roundish. Calyx about 1*5 cm. 1., 

 brownish-silky; upper segment emarginate. Corolla reddish verging on 

 violet with a yellow spot at the base of the standard; standard with 2 

 prominent calli in the centre at the base, about 2 cm. 1. ; wings rhomboid, 

 very broad, auricle triangular, about as long as the standard ; keel-petals 

 adherent in the upper half, shortly beaked, a little shorter than the wings. 

 Pod oblong, 9-13 cm. 1., 4-5-6 cm. br. ; upper margin much thickened, 

 furrowed, lower less so. Seeds 1-3, roundish, 2 -5-3 cm. 1., hilum linear, 

 elongated. 



19. CANAVALIA Adans. 



Herbs, twining or (in C. obtusifolia] creeping. Leaves 

 pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers clustered at minute tubercles 

 along the rhachis of a raceme. Calyx 2-lipped ; upper lip very 

 large, entire or 2-lobed, lower small, 3-lobed. Standard roundish, 

 reflexed. Filaments of stamens all united into a closed sheath, 

 or the uppermost stamen free at the base and slightly adhering 

 above ; anthers uniform, versatile. Pod large, compressed, with 

 a longitudinal rib on each side near the upper margin, with 

 tissue between the seeds. 



Species 12, natives of the tropics. 



Stem creeping. Leaflets roundish to obovate-elliptical... 1. C. obtusifolia. 

 Stem climbing. Leaflets ovate-elliptical or elliptical. 

 Standard auriculate. Bibs of pod 3-7 mm. from 



margin 2. C. ensiformis. 



Standard without auricles. Ribs of pod 1 cm. from 



margin 3. C. altissima. 



1. C. obtusifolia DC. Prodr. ii. 404 (1825); stem creeping- 

 leaflets roundish to obovate-elliptical, apex rounded, sometimes 

 emarginate, terminal often somewhat wedge-shaped, glabrescent 

 at base ; racemes few-flowered ; standard auriculate ; pod few- 

 seeded, ribs close (2-3 mm.) to the margin. Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. 

 pt. i. 178, t. 48 ; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 197 ; Bak. in Hook.f. FL 

 Br. Ind. ii. 196 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 306. C. rosea Macf. Jam. i. 292 

 (1837). Phaseolus maritimus purgans &c. Pluk. Phyt. t. 51, f. 2, 

 Aim. 292. P. maritimus rotundifolius &c, Sloane Cat. 69 & Hist, 

 i. 179. Dolichos maritimus repens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 293. 

 D. obtusifolius Lam. Encyc. ii. 295 (1786). D. roseus Sw. Prodr. 

 105 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1243. D. emarginatus Jacq. Hort. 

 ScJwenbr. ii. t. 221 (1797). 



On sandy sea-shores; in fl. & fr. throughout the year; Sloane Herb, 

 iii. 70 ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 79 ! Houstoun ! Broughton ! Liguanea 

 plain, Campbell ! Falmouth, Ewen \ Kingston, Hitchcock ; Lime Cay ; 

 Bluefields ; Faivcett ! Healthshire Hills, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6429, 9544.- 

 Tropical and subtropical regions. 



