188 MANN, 



long, 2'-3' wide. Peduncle very thick, branching into short partial 

 peduncles, 2" - 3" long, which each bear a few flowers. Flowers 

 about i' long, dark purple or violet. Pedicels l"-2" long. Calyx 

 4" - 5" long, finely pubescent, and split nearly half way down into 4 

 lobes, 3 of which are narrow and acute, the other broad and obtuse or 

 emarginate. Pod 3" long, If wide, very much flattened, smooth. 



Vicinity of Hilo, Hawaii, in open land. Kauai. Probably indigenous to Polynesia, 

 whence it comes also from the Viti and Society Islands, though also found in Brazil. 



11. CANAVALIA Adanson. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, the 2 upper lobes united in a large entire 

 or 2-lobed upper lip, the three lower teeth very small; free or united 

 into one. Standard large dnd broad, reflexed. Wings and keel rather 

 shorter, curved or sometimes slightly twisted. Upper stamen free at 

 the very base, but united with the others in the middle. Ovary 

 barely stipitate, many-ovuled. Style filiform or slightly thickened in 

 the upper part, with a terminal stigma. Pod oblong or broadly linear, 

 usually large, flattened or rarely turgid, with a prominent wing or rib 

 on each side of the upper suture. Seeds with a linear hilum. Twin- 

 ing or trailing herbs. Leaflets 3, with small stipellse. Stipules usually 

 very small. Peduncles axillary, bearing in the upper part a few 1-3- 

 flowered nodes. Flowers rather large, purple, pink, or white. Bracts 

 and bractlets small and caducous. 



A small genus, of the hot and tropical parts of the globe. 



1. C. GALEATA G-aud. (Enum. No. 110.) Stem slender, twining 

 often to a great height on trees, the shoots and leaves more or less 

 pubescent when young, soon glabrate or quite glabrous. Stipules 

 minute, ovate-subulate, caducous. Leaflets ovate elliptical or oblong- 

 ovate, more or less acuminate, rounded at the base, membranaceous, 

 2^'-5' long, li'-3i' wide. Eacemes 3- 10-flowered, rather shorter 

 than the leaves. Flowers li' long. Upper lip of the calyx recurved 

 in flower, very large even for the genus, 3" -4" long, strongly emar- 

 ginate or somewhat 2-lobed; the short lower lip 3-cleft, its lateral 

 lobes ovate or triangular ovate and obtuse, the middle one more tri- 

 angular and acute. Corolla pink or purplish-pink ; the obovate and 

 emarginate standard rather longer than the wings and keel. Ovary 

 silky-canescent, many-ovuled. Pod linear-oblong 4' - 6' long, 1' or 

 more wide, straight, compressed, when half grown silky, at maturity 

 glabrous, slightly tricarinate at the ventral suture, apiculate, short 

 stipitate. Seeds 6 or 7. 



Rather common in many places in woods. 



