62 G. King' — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Andamans ; at Port Blair, Train I Penang ; Wallich 5612 ! Peeak; 

 G oping, Kunstler 1062! 2456! 5117! Scortechini 591! 1441! Ipoh, 

 Curtis 3151 ! Distrib. S.-E. Asia. 



18. Canavalia DC. 



Large twining perennials or biennials with stipellate pinnately 3- 



foliolate leaves and showy flowers. Calyx deeply tubular, limb 2-labiate, 



the upper lip projecting, entire or emarginafce the lower shortly 3-toothed. 



Corolla far exserted ; standard large roundish ; wings shorter equalling 



the incurved obtuse keel. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform. 



Ovary obscurely stalked many-ovuled ; style incurved beardless, stigma 



terminal. Pod large linear or oblong, flat or turgid with a longitudinal 



ridge along each margin of the flattened upper suture. Species 10-12, 



mostly American. 



Pods not turgid, deeply double -channelled along the dorsal 



suture : — 



Pods 1-5-2 in. across ; flowers many ... ... 1. G. ensiformis. 



Pods -5-75 in. across ; flowers few ... ••• 2. C. Imeata. 



Pods turgid, almost flat along the dorsal suture ; endocarp 



,. ..3. G. obtusifolia. 



separating ... ••• ••• ■•• ■ 



1. Canavalia ensiformis DC. Prodr. II, 404. A large biennial or 

 perennial climber with glabrous stems and branches. Leaves 3-foliolate 

 10-12 in. long ; leaflets green paler beneath, membranous, when young 

 puberulous, very soon quite glabrous ovate-acute, base rounded— in 

 lateral pair slightly obliquely ; 5-6 in. long, 25-4 in. wide ; petiole 6 

 in. long glabrous, petiolules 25 in. ; stipels -15 in. subulate very 

 early deciduous ; stipules small triangular '1 in. long, caducous. In- 

 florescence in lax 12-20-fld. racemes 3-3 in. long on axillary peduncles 

 4-6 in. long; flowers solitary or geminate from swollen nodes '3-5 in. 

 apart,' pedicels 1-15 in., bracteoles minute ovate caducous. Calyx 

 campanulate, sparsely puberulous reticulate-veined '6 in. long, upper lip 

 oblong emarginate one-third the length of tube. Corolla lilac or white 

 1-5 in. long, limb of standard orbicular emarginate. Pods few, long, 

 linear-oblong, slightly curved, dorsal suture strongly 3-keeled and 

 deeply 2-grooved between the keels, 5-20-seeded, in length varying 

 from 6-24 inches, in depth from l'5-2 in., distance between outer ridges 

 of dorsal suture '5 in. Seeds white, grey or more usually red, 125 in. 

 long -75 in wide. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 195. C. gladiata DC. 

 Prodr II 404 ; Wall. Cat. 5531 ; W. & A. Prodr. 253 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 216. Dolichos ensiformis Linn. Sp. PI. 725. D. gladiatus Jacq. 

 Coll. II, 276; Roxb. Hort. Beng. Ill, 300. 



In some of the provinces, cultivated ; as it almost universally is 

 throughout the tropics. 



