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Hab. Feejee Islands : found at Rewa, Ovolau, and Direction Island. 



A species of JEucanavalia, section Malocliia ; with rather stout, pro- 

 cumbent or somewhat twining, softly tomentose stems and branches. 

 Stipules ovate-subulate, caducous. Leaflets round ed-obovate, refuse or 

 emarginate, thickish, 3 or 4 inches long, 2 J to 31 inches broad, 

 minutely silky pubescent, but at length glabrate above, very silky under- 

 neatli with a thick and somewhat silvery pubescence; the petioles, 

 inflorescence, &c, downy. Racemes several-flowered, short-peduncled, 

 nearly as long as the leaves. Flower an inch and a half in length. 

 Calyx almost glabrous; the large upper lip emarginate-two-lobed ; the 

 short lower lip three-cleft ; its lobes broadly triangular, acute, of equal 

 length. Ovary canescently tomentose. Legume tomentulose, oblong 

 or oblong-linear, 3 or 4 inches long and an inch wide, straight, com- 

 pressed, raised on a stipe of half an inch in length. Seeds 3 or 4. 



4. Canavalia gale ata, Qaud. 



C. subpubescens, mox glabrata ; foliolis ovato-ellipticis acuminatis, adultis 

 superne vel undique glabris; racemis 3-10-floris; calycis labio supe- 

 riore subbilobo recurvo, inferiore trifido, lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis, 

 infimo triangulato subacuto; corolla purpurea; leguminibus lineari- 

 oblongis quadruplo longioribus quam latis. 



Dolichos galeatus, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 486, t. 115. 



Canavalia galeata, Gaud. 1. c. adu. ; Vogel, in Linnaea, 10, p. 584. 



C. Gaudichaudii, Endl. Syn. Fl. Ins. Austr. in Ann. Wien. Mua. 1, p. 186. 



Var. (3. PUBESCENS : foliolis etiam adultis subtus pubescentibus. 



Canavalia pubescens, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Toy. p. 81; Vogel, in Linnaja, 1. c. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : near the coast at Waianae, Oahu ; also on 

 Kauai. (Collected by Gaudichaud, Chamisso, Hinds; the pubescent 

 variety by Gaudichaud, Chamisso, Lay & Collie, Douglas, &c.) 



Stem slender, twining, the young shoots and the leaves more or less 

 pubescent when young, soon glabrate or nearly glabrous in most cases. 



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