192 FABACBAE. 



3. Canavali bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. T. Bot. Gard. 4: 119. 1905. 



A long vine. Leaflets thin, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 5-8 cm. long, 

 firm, glabrous, faintly veined, narrowed or obtuse at the base but not cordate, 

 the apex bluntly acute ; racemes stout-peduncled, slightly pubescent, longer than 

 the leaves, nodose, pendent, 5-8 cm. long; pedicels curved, erect, 2-4 mm. long; 

 braetlets at base of calyx orbicular, 1 mm. broad, lacerate; calyx very oblique, 

 6-8 mm. long, with one small acute tooth opposite the keel-petals, the much 

 larger upper lip with three short broad teeth; corolla about twice as long as the 

 calyx, the standard purple, the wings and strongly curved teel pink; legume 

 linear -oblong, compressed, about 12 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, 1-1.5 cm. thick, 

 short-pointed, narrowed at the base, not constricted, the stout stipe 1-2 em. 

 long, the valves rather membranous; seeds oval, 1.5 cm. long, 1 em. thick, red- 

 brown, shining. 



Climbing over coastal shrubs, and in coppices, Abaco, Andros and Eleuthera : — 

 Endemic. Bahama Bay-bean. 



20. CAJAJI Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 326. 1763. 



A perennial stiff, slightly woody herb, finely puberulent or pubescent, with 

 pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, and showy yellow flowers in stalked axillary 

 racemes. Calyx narrowly eampanulate, its lobes acute, the 2 upper ones partly 

 united. Standard nearly orbicular, reflexed; wings obliquely obovate; keel 

 with a blunt incurved tip. Ovary many-ovuled; style thickened above; stigma 

 oblique. Pod linear, flattened, acute and long-tipped, its valves impressed be- 

 tween the seeds. [Prom the Malayan name.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Cajan Cajan (L.) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 53. 1900. 



Cytisus Cajan L. Sp. PI. 739. 1753. 

 Cajanus indicus Spr. Syst. 3 : 248. 1826. 



Bushy, branched, 2 m. high or less. Leaves petioled; leaflets oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-8 em. long, acute at both ends or obtuse at the base, 

 velvety on both sides, dark green above, pale beneath; racemes few-flowered, as 

 long as the leaves or longer; pedicels, raehis and calyx brown-pubescent; 

 flowers 12-16 mm. broad; pods 5-8 em. long, 10-12 mm. wide, 4-7-seeded; 

 seeds whitish, somewhat flattened, about 4 mm. thick. 



Waste and cultivated soils, spontaneous after cultivation, throughout the 

 islands from Andres and New Providence to Mariguana : — Native of the Old AVorld 

 tropics ; widely spontaneous in all American tropical regions. Pigeon Pea. 



21. DOliCHOLUS Medio. Tories. Chur. Phys. Ges. 2: 354. 1787. 



[Ehtnchosia Lour.] 



Perennial twining trailing or erect herbs, with pinnately 1-3-foliolate 

 leaves, and yellow, mostly axillary and racemose flowers. Leaflets generally 

 punctate with resinous dots, not stipellate. Calyx 4^5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped ; 

 standard obovate or orbicular, spreading or reflexed; wings narrow; keel in- 

 curved at the apex or falcate ; stamens diadelphous (9 and 1 ) . Ovary nearly 

 sessile ; ovules 2, rarely 1 ; style filiform. Pod flat, oblong or obliquely orbicular, 

 2-valved, 1-2-seeded. [Greek, diminutive of Dolichos.] About 200 species, 

 natives of warm and temperate regions. Type species : Bolichos minimus L. 



Leaves prominently reticulate-veined beneath ; long vine. 1. D. reficitlatus. 

 Leaves not prominently reticulate-veined ; small vines. 



Leaflets acuminate; pods 3-4 cm. long; seeds red. 2. D. Su-art:ii. 



Leaflets obtuse or acutlsh ; pods 1-2 cm. long ; seeds olive. 3. D. minimus. 



