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GENUS XLV. CANAVALIA. 
Monadelphia Decandvia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Canavali, the Malabar name of one of the species, 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants: leayes pine 
nately trifoliolate: stipules small, wart-like: racemes axillary, 
elongated, many-flowered; flowers in twos or threes in glandular 
knobs; calyx tubular, with two roundish caducous bracteoles at its 
base, unequally 2-lipped, upper lip the largest and consisting of two 
large round lobes, lower much smaller, acutely 3-toothed: corolla 
papilionaceous: vexillum with 2 large callosities near the base of 
the limb: a lineay~oblong, auricled and repand on the upper 
margin; keel faleate at a right angle with its petals distinct from 
the base to the angle: stigma large, oblique; legumes 8-keeled on 
the upper suture, mucronate, with cellular membranes surrounding 
and separating the seeds: seeds oval-oblong. 
(1) C. ezapiata. ( Dec.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 253.-Dee. prod. II. p. 404. 
_ Syn. Dalichos gladiatus, Willd. Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 300.4 
D. ensiformis, Lour. : 
- Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIII. t. 44.—Rumph. Amb. V. t. 135, 
-£. | ,enJacq, Icon. Rar. IIT. t. 560. 5 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial, twining, glabrous : leaflets cordate= 
ovate, rather acute: legumes 5-10 times longer than broad: flowers 
large. 
Commonly cultivated. There are varieties with red and white 
flowers, one of which is indigenous to Silhet. The half-grown pods 
are eaten like Frepch-beans. It flowers in the rainy season. 
(2) C. virosa. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. J. p. 253. 
Syn. Dolichos virosus, Roxb. fl. Ind. TIT. p. 301. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIII. t. 45. 
Srec. Cuar. Biennial, twining, glabrous or with the racemes 
pubescent; leaflets oval; legumes lingar, scimitar-shaped, 4-8. 
seeded : flowers large, rose-purplish. caiiacsiied 
Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. The natives consider 
this a poisqneus plant. 
(3) C. mots, (Wall. ) 
Ident. W.&A. prod, I. p. 253. 
Srec. Cuan. Twining; branches densely pubescent: leafleté 
ovate, young pnes tomentose, older ones villous; legumes oblong: 
linéar, few-seeded. ; 
Neilgherries and Dindigul Hills, 
