440 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Brazil, although cultivated in Mauritius, &c. The pods are 3 or 4 

 inches long, li to 2 inches wide, flat, glabrate when mature, about 

 two-seeded, conspicuously tricarinate at the ventral suture. Seeds 

 nearly orbicular, compressed, 9 or 10 lines in diameter, with a bony 

 testa ; the linear hilum extending more than half way round the cir- 

 cumference of the seed. 



70. C AN A V ALIA, DC. 



1. Canavalia obtusifolia, DC. 



Canavalia obtusifolia) miniata, rosea, & rutilans, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 404, ex Bcnth. 



Hab. On the sandy shores of Upolu, Samoan Islands, and of 

 Ovolau, &c, Feejee Islands ; common. 



2. Canavalia turgid a, Graham. 



Canavalia turgida, Graham, in "Wall. Cat. no. 5534. 



Hab. Mangsi Islands. Feejee and Samoan Islands. Tongatabu. 

 Tahiti : on the coast. 



This species is closely allied to C. gladiata, and is probably only a 

 variety of it, with somewhat turgid and short pods, of 4 or 5 inches 

 in length and about an inch and a half in width. Dr. Wight, in his 

 Icones PI. Ind. Or. t. 753, figures C. gladiata with pods only six 

 inches long. 



3. Canavalia sericea, Sp. Nov. 



C. sericeo-tomentosa ; foliolis obovato-rotmidis retusis supra demum gla- 

 bratis subtus eximie sericeis; racemis plurifloris folia suba?qwantibus ; 

 calycibus glabriuscidis ; leguminibus tomentulosis triplo quadruphve 

 longioribus quam latis. 



