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CANAVALIA* Bonaniericist 
Buenos Ayres Canavalia. 
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MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminosm®. § Phaseolesee. Dec. 
CANAVALIA Dec. — Calyx tubulosus, bilabiatus, labio inferiore denti- 
bus tribus (vel unico) acutis parvis, superiore lobis 2 amplis rotundatis. 
Corolle vexillum amplum bicallosum ; callis parallelis; ale stipitatee ob- 
- long: auriculatee; carina dipetala. Stamina monadelpha, aut decimo sub- 
adherente. Legumen compressum, tricarinatum, nempé infrd et juxtd 
suturam superiorem nervyo protuberante suturee parallelo utrinque instructum, 
mucrone inflexo terminatum, membranis cellulosis inter semina donatum. 
Semina oyali-oblonga, hilo lineari. Herbee aut suffrutices, ramis volu- 
bilibus, foliis pinnato-trifoliolatis. Racemi axillares multiflori pedicellis 
ternis. ‘Flores ampli purpurascentes. Dec. prodr. 2. 404. 
C. bonariensis ; foliolis ovatis obtusis cum acumine coriaceis glabris, 
racemis foliis longioribus, calycis labio inferiore unidentato. 
Caulis lignosus, sarmentosus, volubilis, teres. Folia ternata; foliola 
petiolulata, ovata, cum acumine obtuso, coriacea, integerrima, glaberrima. 
Racemi azillares, multiflori, penduli, glabri, apice leviter pubescentes. Flores 
gemini, ternive, é gibbis racheos, ad basin sub calyce bracteolis duabus 
minimis rotundis suffult?. Calyx viridis, campanulatus, bilabiatus, glaber, 
labio superiore maximo, foliaceo, bilobo, demim reflexo, inferiore minimo, 
integerrimo, dentiformi. Vexillum magnum, obcordatum, purpureum, bast 
limbi callosum, pube quddam intra labia calli, abrupte refractum, et inde 
in ungue acuminatum ; ale falcate, obtuse, vexillo breviores, purpurascentes ; 
carina longitudine alarum, cymbiformis, obtusa, purpurascens, cornubus 
baseos brevibus, incurvis. Stamina monadelpha, declinata, nullo modo dia- 
delpha; antheris oblongis, utrinque obtusis, alternis demissioribus. Ovarium 
_ stipite villoso longo insidens, falcatum, pubescens, heptaspermum, in stylo 
lineari, ascendente, glabro acuminatum ; stigma glabrum, capitatum. (Semen 
magnum, Wisteria frutescentis, sec. cl. Herbertum.) 
This lovely climber is a native of Buenos Ayres, 
whence its seed was received by the Honourable and 
* Canavali is the name applied in Malabar to the species which con- 
stitutes the type of this genus, 
