394 BENGAL PLANTS. (Canavalia, 
obtusely beaked keel. Stamens 10; vexillary filament free at the . 
ase, connate with others in a tube from the middle; anthers — 
uniform. Ovary  substipitate, many-ovuled; style in 
beardless; stigma terminal minute. Fruit a large linear or bla 
flattish pod, distinctly ribbed or subalate on each valve near the 
upper suture. Seeds ovate-rotund, subcompressed ; hilum linear. 
Pods not turgid, aye double-channelled along the dorsal suture :— : 
Pods 8-12-seeded, 1-5-2 in. wide; flowers rather numerous; leaflets 
ovate, acute . ensiformis 
Pods 4-6- desta, *5—75 in. wide: 
Flowers rather numerous; ieee wnaisictd acute or obtuse ...virosd. 
Flowers few ; leaflets orbicular, obtuse or sees edineata. 
Pods turgid, almost flat along the dorsal tite ob arp separating, 
4-6-seeded, 3-5-4-5 in. wide: ; leaflets ovate, acute or obtuse ...obtusifolia. 
518. CANAVALIA ENSIFORMIS DC. ; _ B. I. ii. 195; E. D. C. 289. 
Dolichos a ie I. iii 
enerally cultiv 
A large = a ae Kadsambal ; Beng. Makhan-sim ; 
Santal. Tih . 
514. Canavanta ae W. & A. C. ensiformis var. virosa 
B _ I. iii. 196; E. D. c. 290. Dolichos virosus F. I. ii 
A most of the provinces. 
A large climber. Beng. Kath-sim, kala-s D. 
* 615. es LINEATA DC. C. enone: F. Li ii, 196; E. 
C. 294. Dolichos obcordatus F. I 
Sundribuns, sea-face o only ; Pies mae the coast. 
littoral species, creeping along the sand. 
516. CANavALta OBTUsIFoLIA DC. C. ensiformis ae. turgida 
I. ii. 196. Dolichos rotundifolius F. I. iii. 302. J 
Sundribuns and C. B Bengal; a och common | oF ong 
the banks of tidal creeks and riv 
241, Dioclea H.B.K. 
Large climbing shrubs; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; — 
lanceolate ; stipels subulate. ——- fasciculately racemose 4 
thick elongated peduncles, rachis with thickened nodes ; bracts we 
bracteoles lanceolate, A aoa caducous. Sepals 5, pre 
in a campanulate tube; the 2 upper lobes connate in an e? 
