186 



L. LEGrMiNOS-E. (J. G. Baker.) 



\_Mucuna. 



subsessile ; bracts none seen ; pedicels ^-J in. ; bracteoles linear, exceeding the bud» 

 Catyx I in., -with copious irritating bristles; lower tooth linear; side ones deltoid. 

 Corolla H in. long; keel abruptly indexed at the tip; wings I in., standard^ in. 

 broad. Pod 3 in. long, obscurely stipitate, clothed with copious ferruginous or dull 

 brown irritating bristles ; wings \~^ in. deep. 



3. 2ffi. atropurpurea, DC. Prodr, ii. 406 ; leaflets glabrous, racemes 



long-peduncled drooping elongated often forked, upper calyx-lip more than half 



as long as the tube, pod two-seeded twice as long as broad, Wall. Cat. 6620 ; 



W, ^ A. P}'och\ 254. Oarpopogon atropurpureum, Roxl. Hort. Benr/. 54 ; FL 



Ind. iii. 287. 



Plains of Western Peninsula and Ceylon, Malacca, Maingay, 

 A woody climber, with very slender glabrous branches. Leaflets membranoTis, 

 subconcolorous, shining on the upper surface, the end one oblong-cuspidate, 4-6 id. 

 long. ^ac^TT?^^ pendent, not corymbose ; bracts small, ovate, soon deciduous; bracte- 

 oles oblong-spathulate, obtuse, ^-^ in. Calyx ^-f in. long, deeply bilabiate, -with a 

 few ferruginous irritating bristles. Corolla dark purple, 2-2^ in. long ; keel abruptly 

 turned up at the end ; wings ^-|in., standard 1 in. broad. Pod sessile, 3 in. long, the 

 faces traversed with close oblique plaits, and furnished with abundant yellow-broura 

 irritating bristles. 



SiTBGEN. 3. Carpopog'Oil, Itoxh. Fad broadly winged down 

 but not plaited on the faces. 



4. M. ^i^antea, DC. Prodr. ii. 405; Wall. Cat. 5619; W. 4' ^• 

 Trodr. 254; Wight in Hooh. Bat. Misc. ii. 351, Suppl. t. 14. Oarpopogon 

 giganteum, Roxb. IIorL lieng. 54 ; Fl. Lid. iii. 286. Dolichos giganteus, WtlU- 

 Sp. PL iii. I041.—Iihe€de Hart. Mai. viii. t. 36. 



Plains of the Western Peninsula; Andaitans, Kurz. — Distkib. Malaya, Phihp- 



pines, Polynesia, 



A woody climber, with slender glabrous branches. Leaflets subcoriaeeous, sud- 

 concolorous, glabrous ; end one oblong-cuspidate, 5-6 in. long. Flowers 12-30 in long- 

 peduncled drooping close racemes; pedicels 1 in. long. Calyx i--| in., with a ft* 

 irritating bristles; upper lip subtruncate. Corolla yellow, 1-li in. long; keel bo 

 abruptly inflexed at the end. Pod 3-6 in. by 2 in., flat on the faces, copiously clotbea 

 with abundant deciduous yellow-brown irritating bristles, 2-6- seeded. 



SuBGEN. 4. Stizolobium 



without 



wings 



5. 



^. M. macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 5618; woody, branches and lea^^^ 

 glabrous, uppr lip of calyx subtruncate, pod very large sublignose glabrescent. 



Nipal and Silhet, Wallich. Khasia and Sikkto, 1-6000 ft., plentiful, Hook.P- 9 

 Thomson . , 



Branchlets slender, terete. Leaflets subcoriaeeous, the undersurfaco with a fe*^ . 

 pressed deciduous hairs ; end one ovate-cuspidate, 6-8 in. long. Eacemes fascic 

 from the old wood, short-pedunclod, with a densely brown-velvety rachis, the lo*ff , 

 nodes sending out short branches; pedicels i-i in., velvety, decu'.*ved; bracteo 

 i-J in. obtuse, oblcng. ^' , , . , « ^ ... . ^ .i...wer 



teeth as long as the tube. 



Calyx nearly 1 in. long, with a few irritating bristles ; lo"^ 

 Corolla 2^3 in. long; keel abruptly turned up at ^ 

 tip; wings Jin.; standard ^ in. broad. Pod 1-4 ft- by l^-l| in., ^-^^-s^eO^^' 

 distinctly torulose, finely velvety at first, slightly channelled down both sides of ^^ 



Butuxes. 



6. 



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"m^ 



. bracteata, DC. Prodr. ii. 406 ; annual or perennial^ ^^^B 

 and leaves below with a few adpressed hairs, flowers purple in short-pedunc^ . 





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