58 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
nec DC.—Viti (Williams!). Also collected in the Society (Capt. Cook!) and Sandwich Islands 
(Macrae! U. S. Expl. Exped.), as well as in Brazil. 
Mr. Williams’s specimen is merely a fragment, but, as far as it goes, agrees well with the Tahitian and 
Sandwich Islands specimens. The plant, having now been ascertained to grow in three widely separated 
groups of islands, must be regarded as truly indigenous to Polynesia. 
IX. Canavalia, DC. Leg. Mem. vol. ix.; Endl. Gen. n. 6663; Benth. Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 255. 
Calyx tubulosus, 2-labiatus, labio superiore maximo, truncato v. emarginato-2-fido, lobis lato-rotun- 
datis, inferiore parvo, integro v. 2-fido. Vexillum amplum, suborbiculatum, emarginatum v. 2-fidum, 
basi angustatum, complicatum, intus 2-callosum, margine membrana inflexa utrinque appendiculatum 
v. nudum, ungue brevi ; alee oblongo-lineares, falcatz, basi late auriculatz, a carina sublibere, auriculis 
inter se cohzrentibus; carina alis equilonga v. longior, vexillo brevior, basi ovata v. ovato-oblonga, 
incurva, apice obtusa v. acuminato-rostrata, rostro infero v. spiraliter torto, petalis dorso connatis 
brevissime unguiculatis. Discus vaginifer. Stamina monadelpha, v. rarius filamento vexillari ima 
basi et supra medium libero subdiadelpho; anther uniformes. Ovarium substipitatum, lineare, 
co-ovulatum. Stylus incurvus, glaber, apice subdilatato-truncatus, stigmate terminali. Legumen 
oblongum v. lineare, compressum, subfaleatum, coriaceum, sutura vexillari subincrassata, valvis 
utrinque prope suturam nervo longitudinali auctis, sutura carinali nuda, isthmis cellulosis inter 
semina transversim oo-loculare. Semina ovata v. subrotundata, compressa, umbilico lineari estro- 
phiolato.—Herbee volubiles; foliis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis oppositis cum impari distante; sti- 
pellis minutis, setaceis v. nullis; stipulis parvis, orbiculatis v. verruciformibus; racemis axillaribus 
elongatis spiezeformibus; rhachi alternatim ramosa; floribus ad quemvis nodum solitariis v. ge- 
minis aut ternis fasciculatis subsessilibus pendulis; bracteis orbiculatis, calyci adpressis, caducis; 
calycibus seepe nigro-maculatis ; corollis roseis albis v. purpurascentibus. 
* 
1. C. obtusifolia, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 404; glabra v. ramulis junioribus sericeo-pubescen- 
tibus; caule prostrato v. scandente, rarius volubili; foliolis late obovatis v. orbiculatis obtusissimis 
v. retusis, subacuminatis; floribus roseis v. albidis; calycis labio superiore 2-fido, inferiore 3-fido ; 
vexillo orbiculari; carina valde curvata, obtusa; legumine lato nervis longitudinalibus angustis; 
seminibus 2-8, umbilico oblongo v. lineari.— Benth. Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 256.—Dolichos obtusifolius, 
Lam. Dict. vol. ii. p.295. D. rotundifolius, Vahl, Symb. vol. ii. p. 81. Glycine rosea, Forst. Prodr. 
n. 271, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Pl. (ined.) t. 74. Rhynchosia rosea, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. 
p. 387.— Common all over Viti (Seemann! n. 122). Also collected in Society Islands (Banks and 
Solander !), Isle of Pines (M‘Gillivray !), Tongan Islands (Barclay !), and in Eastern Australia, South 
America, Africa, and tropical Asia. 
9. C. sericea, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 440; sericeo-tomentosa ; foliolis obovato-rotundatis 
obtusis v. abrupte acuminatis, basi acutis v. rotundatis, supra demum glabris subtus eximie sericeis ; 
racemis plurifloris folia subsequantibus; floribus roseis; calycis glabriusculi labio superiore emar- 
ginato 2-lobo, inferiore 3-fido; legumine tomentoso triplo quadruplove longiore quam lato; seminibus 
3-4.—Glycine speciosa, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 288, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Pl. t. 73 
(ined.).—Viti Levu, at Rewa, Ovalau, and Direction Island (U. S. Expl. Exped.). Also collected in 
the Society Islands (Banks and Solander !). 
I subjoin the manuscript description which Solander has given of his plant in the place above quoted, 
as it completes our knowledge of this little-known plant, and was made from fresh specimens, viz. :— 
* Ogules herbacei, longissimi, volubiles, teretes, striati, villis brevissimis cinerascentes. Folia alterna, 
petiolata, ternata; foliola ovata, vel potius late elliptico-ovalia, aeuta, integerrima, supra glabra, subtus 
villis tenuibus albidis mollia, enervia, venosa, plerumque quadriuncialia, subzqualia, lateralia extus paulo 
latiora. Petioli subteretes, superne canali angusto exarati, striati, villis brevibus tecti, spithamei, extra 
petiolellos laterales producti, ut foliolum terminale spatio sesquiunciali a reliquis elevatum. Petiolelli 
