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48. TERAMNUS Swartz 
Slender, twining, herbaceous vines. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers small, 
in axillary panicled racemes. Calyx campanulate, the teeth distinct. Co- 
rolla little exserted, the petals equal in length; standard not spurred. 
Stamens monadelphous; alternate anthers small, abortive. Ovary many- 
ovuled; style short. Pods linear, somewhat compressed, septate between 
the seeds, curved or hooked at the apex. 
Species 4, in all tropical countries, 1 in the Philippines. 
1. T. labialis (L. f.) Spreng. 
A slender, twining, more or less pubescent, annual vine reaching a length 
of 4m. Leaflets oblong-elliptic to oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, green and 
shining on the upper surface, pale and appressed-pubescent beneath, 2.5 to 5 
em long. Inflorescence of axillary, panicled, pubescent racemes 5 to 8 cm 
long. Flowers 5 mm long. Calyx appressed-pubescent. Corolla purple, 
only slightly exserted. Pod linear, flat, curved at the apex, slightly pubes- 
cent, about 4 cm long, 3 mm wide, containing about 10 seeds. | 
In thickets, San Pedro Macati, etc., common, fl. Oct.-June; widely distrib- 
uted in the Philippines, possibly introduced. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
49. CANAVALIA DeCandolle 
Coarse, twining, annual or perennial vines with 3-foliolate leaves, the 
leaflets stipellate. Flowers rather large. Calyx-limb 2-lipped, the upper 
lip projecting, entire or emarginate, the lower one shortly 3-toothed. 
Corolla much exserted, standard large, roundish; wings somewhat shorter, 
equaling the incurved keel. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary many-ovuled. 
Pod large, linear, to oblong, flat, sometimes swollen, with a rib on each 
valve near the upper suture. (From the Malabar name of one species.) 
Species about 15, mostly in tropical America, 4 in the Philippines. 
1. Pod swollen, 10 cm long or less, about 4.5 em wide................ 1. C. turgida 
1. Pod flat, or if swollen then less than 3 cm wide. 
2. Leaflets broad and rounded at the apex; a species growing along 
Gy gS Sh Lats Rie la ele SE A ht te aba ee 9 OL ts RAE 2. C. lineata 
2. Leaflets acuminate. 
8. Pod less than 20 cm long and 3 em wide.................... 3. C. ensiformis 
8. Pod 25 to 30 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide....................2...----.. 4, C. gladiata 
1. C. turgida Grah. 
A coarse, scandent, herbaceous vine in thickets near the seashore. 
Leaflets ovate, acuminate, 8 to 15 cm long, base- usually rounded. Flowers 
in pairs at the ends of the scapes, reflexed, about 4 cm long, pink-purple, 
quite as in the next species. Pods thick, broad, swollen, often nearly 
flat along the back, 10 to 14 cm long, 5 cm wide, apiculate-acuminate, 
containing about 6, brown, ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, hard, smooth 
seeds. (FI. Filip. pl. 319, C. virosa.) 
In thickets near the seashore, but not on the sandy beach, Navotas, 
Pasay, etc., fl. July-March; throughout the Philipppines near the sea. 
India to Formosa and Malaya. 
2. C. lineata (Thunb.) DC. Pataning-dagat (Tag.). 
A coarse, prostrate, herbaceous vine, growing on the sandy beach, 
sending up large 3-foliolate leaves and long-peduncled racemes of pink- 
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