572 XLVii. LEGUMiNOS^. [Puerafia. 



Hab. Low country in thickets, Pahang River, Negri Sembilan, 

 Kwala Pedas. Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Ipoh (Curtis) ; 

 Goping (Kunstler) ; Kwala Kangsa. Penang (Wallich) ; Quarry 

 (Curtis). Province Wellesley, Permatang Bertam. Perlis, Chupeng. 

 Lankawi. Kelantan River near Chaning. Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 



15. CANAVALIA, DC. 



Large climbing or creeping plants. Leaves trifoliate. Flowers 

 large pink, fragrant in racemes. Calyx tubular, 2-lipped, upper 

 lip entire or emarginate, lower 3-toothed. Corolla large; standard 

 round, keel blunt incurved. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary sub- 

 sessile many-ovuled ; style incurved, beardless. Pod large, linear 

 or oblong, flat or turgid with a ridge along each edge of upper 

 suture. Species 10 to 12, chiefly American. 



Pod long, flattened, double channelled along the dorsal 

 suture. 

 Pod 1-5 to 2 in. across, many-flowered (cultivated) . (i) C. gladiata 

 Pod '5 to '75 in. across, few-flowered (trailer, sea- 

 shore) . . . . . . . . (2) C. obtusifolia 



Pods short broad turgid, flat along the upper suture 



(climber wild) (3) C, turgida 



(i) C. gladiata DC. Prodr. ii. 404. C. ensiformis Baker, in 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 195 ; Prain, I.e. 62, in part, not of DeCandolle. 



A glabrous climber. Leaves 10 to 12 in. long; leaflets ovate 

 acute, base rounded, 5 to 6 in. long, 2*5 to 4 in. wide; petioles 

 6 in. long. Racemes 3 to 8 in. long on peduncles 4 to 6 in. long. 

 Flowers 12 to 20. Calyx puberulous, upper lip oblong emarginate. 

 Corolla rose pink (rarely white), i'5 in. long. Pod linear-oblong, 

 dorsal suture grooved between 3 keels, turgid cylindric or broad 

 and flat, 12 to 24 in. long, i'5 to 2 in. wide. Seed white, grey 

 or red, i'25 in. long, '5 to 75 in. wide. Hab. Cultivated. Native 

 name : Kachang Parang. Use : Pods eaten. 



DeCandolle correctly separated the Asiatic species C. gladiata from the 

 American C. ensiformis, but Baker unfortunately put them together, adding 

 one or two other species to it. Its origin seems to be unknown ; I have 

 seen none but cultivated plants. 



(2) C. obtusifolia DC. Prodr. ii. 404 ; Baker, in Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, ii. 196. C. lineata Prain, I.e. 63, not of DeCandolle. 



A trailing plant on sand-hills, with long creeping stems. 

 Leaves 8 to 9 in. long, light green fleshy membranous; petioles 

 3 to 5 in. long ; leaflets ovate or orbicular blunt or rounded, occa- 

 sionally slightly retuse at tip, base cuneate, 2 to 3 in. long and as 

 wide ; petiolules '25 in. long. Racemes of 4 to 6 flowers ; peduncles 

 6 to 10 in. long. Calyx '6 in. long, upper lip oblong entire reticulate. 

 Corolla rose pink to deep mauve, i in. long; standard emarginate. 

 Pod linear-oblong, strongly three-keeled, 3 to 5 in. long, 75 in. 

 wide; epicarp not separating from pericarp. Seed -5 in. long, 



