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3- 6 cm. long, stout. Cultivated vegetable. 
Engebi: in old garden, May 1944, Fosberg. 
51. Brassica sp. (?) 
Engebi: "two hardy, although somewhat 
wilted members of the cabbage family,” ob- 
served 1944, Bryan. 
52. Raphanus sativus L. Annual or biennial; 
root enlarged, peppery, edible; stem 60-100 cm. 
tall, glaucous; leaves lyrate; racemes loose; petals 
15 mm. long, white to purplish; capsule 2. 5-7. 5 
cm. long, beaked. Cultivated vegetable. 
Eniwetok: in American gardens, observed as 
"radish” in 1944, Bryan. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
52a. Caesalpinia Bonduc (L.) Roxb. Large, 
sturdy vine, often 10 m. long; stems thorny; 
stipules none; leaves bipinnate, the leaflets in 
4- 8 pairs on each pinna, 3-5 cm. long, broadly 
elliptic, the petioles and rhachises prickly; 
sepals 7-8 mm. long, oval; petals yellow, 2-3 
times as long as the sepals; pods about 7 cm. 
long, oval, compressed, prickly; the 2-3 seeds 
14 mm. in diameter, globose, gray. 
Eniwetok Atoll: 1946, St. John 22,197 ; 1958, 
Palumbo. Found only as drift seeds on the 
beaches. They could have come from the north- 
east, the south, or the west. 
53. Canavalia microcarpa (DC.) Piper; C. 
turgida Graham ex Miq. "Marlap.” Biennial, 
herbaceous vine; stems glabrous; leaves tri- 
foliolate; petiole 6-15 cm. long; leaflets 6-10 
cm. long, oval, acuminate, abruptly obtuse at 
base, almost glabrous; peduncle 15-25 cm. long; 
pedicels 2 mm. long; calyx 12 mm. long, 
sparsely villous; petals 20-25 mm. long, rose- 
colored; pod 9-12 X 3.5 cm.; seeds 18 X 12 
mm., compressed, brown. 
Eniwetok: 6 August 1949, St. John 23,707 . 
Igurin: 14 May 1946, Fosberg 24,309 ; 9 August 
1949, St. John 23,739, and 26,316. 
53a. Dioclea reflexa Hook. f. Woody vine; 
petioles 7 .2-9.6 cm. long, pilose; leaflets 3, 
terminal leaflet 13.2-16 cm. long, broad ellip- 
tic, subacuminate, firm, below sparsely villous 
on veins; peduncle 10-33 cm. long; floral bracts 
prominent, 9-12 mm. long; calyx 12-14 mm. 
long, cupulate, hirsutulous; corolla reddish pur- 
ple, the banner 17-21 mm. long, suborbicular; 
pod 11-14.5 X 5.8-6.6 cm. X 9 mm., oval; 
seeds 27-29 X 21-26X 12-17.5 mm., reddish 
to brownish. 
Found rarely as seeds only, in the drift on the 
beaches. Collected in 1946, St. John 22,007 ; 
and about 1953 by Donaldson . It probably came 
from the west or south. 
54. Entada phaseoloides (L.) Merr. Woody 
vine of great size, stems up to 75 m. in length, 
somewhat flattened and up to 15 cm. in width, 
containing potable water; leaves bipinnate; stip- 
ules 4 mm. long, hornlike, caducous; petioles 
10-25 cm. long, ending in a 2 -parted tendril; 
leaflets 4-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, oblong or 
lanceolate; flowers subsessile in spikes; petals 
2.5 mm. long, narrowly oblong; pod 45-60 cm. 
long, 5-7 cm. wide, massive, contracted around 
the seeds; seeds discoid, shining, brown, hard. 
Eniwetok: 1958, Palumbo no. D. Known 
here only as seeds in the sea drift. Not indig- 
enous to the Marshalls, but probably drifting 
from islands to the south or west. 
55. Mucuna mens (L.) Medic. Climbing 
vine; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; petioles 6-12 
cm. long; terminal leaflet 7.5-16 cm. long, lance- 
ovate to obovate, acuminate; inflorescence 30-90 
cm. long, many flowered; calyx 11-13 mm. long, 
campanulate, sericeous and hispid; corolla 35 
mm. long; pods 15-25 cm. long, oblong, 4-4.5 
cm. wide, densely hispid with irritating hairs; 
seeds 3 cm. broad, discoid, flattened but fat, 
brown, surrounded by the hilum. 
An exotic, not found growing, but as drift 
seeds on beach of Engebi, 1949, St. John. It 
surely drifted from Hawaii on the northeast. 
56. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Annual vines, erect 
or twining, pubescent; the three leaflets 10-15 
cm. long, rhombic-ovate, acuminate; racemes 
few-flowered; petals 12-22 mm. long, white to 
purple; pod 10-20 cm. long, terete or com- 
pressed, edible. Cultivated vegetable. 
Eniwetok: in American gardens, as "string 
beans,” observed 1944, Bryan. 
57. Phaseolus sp. (?) 
Eniwetok: in American gardens, as "beans,” 
observed 1944, Bryan. 
58. Vigna marina (Burm.) Merr. "Markine- 
jojo.” Trailing perennial vine; stems 15-100 
cm. long; the three leaflets 5-8 cm. long, ob- 
ovate to suborbicular, somewhat fleshy, sparsely 
