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5 mm wide, compressed-convex, slightly constricted between the seeds, coarsely
pubescent; seeds 4 to 8, cube-like, flattened, about 3.5 by 3 by 2 mm, pale brown.
Locally abundant weed in low ground around Buada Lagoon. Probably originally
introduced as a green manure and nitrogen-fixing plant, but now naturalized. 3(58651),
6(153).
Canavalia cathartics Thouars "Mauna Loa bean" (Hawaii)
erekogo, irekogo (N); te kitoko (K); saketa (T)
syns. C. microcarpa: (DC.) Piper; C. turgida Graham (of Burges list)
Indigenous. Pantropical. Occasional. Rather coarse creeping and high climbing
herbaceous vine; leaves, about 20 cm long, alternate, trifoliate; leaflets, 8 to 15 cm long
and 7 to 10 cm wide, ovate to acuminate, base rounded, obtuse, papery, whitish
puberulent; flowers, 3 to 4 cm long, fragrant, short-pedicellate, few, borne on rather
long, axillary peduncles up to 20 cm long, pedicels about 2 mm long; calyx, 5-lobed,
about 14 mm long, white-puberulent, upper lip much shorter than calyx tube; corolla 5-
petaled, pink to lavender, the wings and keel petals somewhat paler than the others;
pods, 10 to 12 cm long and 3 to 4.5 cm wide, thick, inflated, indehiscent or tardily
dehiscent, 3-angled on one edge, pointed, tan or brown; seeds, about 6, about 1.8 cm
long, ovoid, slightly flattened, brown to dark reddish-brown, hilum 9 to 14 mm long.
Climbing on trees in escarpment forest of Anibare. 2(49.5), 3(58737, 58800), 5(135), 6,
7.
Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC.
syn . Dolichos ensiforn?is L
"Jack bean", "horse bean"
Pre-World War I1 introduction. W. Indies. Reported by Schumann (1898) as
collected by Finch, but not seen in 1978. Bushy erect annual herb, 1 to 2 m high, the tips
of branches tending to twine; leaves trifoliate; leaflets, 6 to 15 cm long and 5 to 10 cm
wide, ovate-elliptic, obtuse or shortly acute, shortly white puberulent especially on
petioles and petiolules; petioles, stout, grooved above, usually longer than leaflets,
terminal leaflet long-stalked, lateral leaflets short-stalked with unequilateral base; flowers,
2 to 2.8 cm long, short-pedicellate, borne on axillary peduncles of 10 to 50 flowers in
groups of 3 to 5 on swollen pedicelar glands, pedicels 2 mm long; calyx, 14 mm long, 5-
lobed, with 2 upper and 3 smaller lower lobes, puberulent, the upper lip only slightly
shorter than the calyx tube; corolla 5-petaled, rose to violet; pods, 20 to 35 cm long and
2 to 3.5 cin wide, stout, somewhat compressed, pale tan or straw-colored when ripe,
pendant, spirally dehiscent, ribbed near upper suture; seeds, 8 to 20, about 2 cm long
and 1.3 cm wide, oblong, somewhat compressed, ivory white with brown scar, hilum
about 9 mm long, pale brown with orange margin.