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Stem often several feet long, glabrescent. Leaflets 5-10 cm. 1. Racemes 

 1-5-3 dm. 1. Floivers violet-rosy. Calyx 1-1-5 cm. 1. Corolla : standard, 

 apex emarginate, with small infolded auricles and 2 prominent calli at the 



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Fig. 19. 



A, Leaf and inflorescence X H. 



B, Single flower x L . 



C, Calyx X 1A. 



D, Standard x U. 



Canaralia aUissima Macf. 



E, Wings, keel, stamens, and pistil 



pulled apart x 1*. 



F, Pod x '. 



base, 2-5-3-5 cm. 1. ; keel-petals united about the middle, as long as the 

 wings, shorter than the standard, curved. Filaments of stamens all united. 

 Pod 1-5--5 dm. 1., 3-2-5 cm. br., linear-oblong, straight; glabrescent. 

 Seeds chestnut-coloured, 1- 25-1 '5 cm. 1. 



2. C. ensiformis DC. Prodr. il. 404 (1825); stem twining; 

 leaflets ovate-elliptical, acute to acuminate, mucronate, glab- 

 rescent ; racemes many-flowered ; upper lip of calyx about as 

 long as the tube ; standard auriculate : pod many-seeded, ribs 

 near (3-8 mm.) to the margin. Macf. Jam. /'. 291 ; BaJc. torn, 

 cit. 195. C. gladiata DC. loc. cit. (1825); Macf. lor. ,//.; Wujlit 

 Ic. Hi. t. 753 ; Benth. loc. cit. ; Griseb. loc. cit. Phaseolus maximus 

 siliqua ensiformi &, semine albo Arc. Sloane Cat. 08 iV: Hi*t. /'. 177, 

 t. 114, /. 1, 2, 3. P. suberectus major Arc. Broivnr ///>/. Jain. 291. 

 Dolicbos ensiformis L. Sp. PL 725 (1753). D. gladiatus Jm-tj. 

 Collect, it. 27G (1788) & Ic. PL Ear. Hi t. 560. Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit, and specimen from Jacquin's Herb. 



Horse Bean, Overlook Bean, Sword Bean, Jack Bean. 

 Sloane Herb. iii. 07 ! Macfadyen ; Maroon Town, St. James, Knollys ! 

 Tropics. 



