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corolla as in M. 



Mwuna.] L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 187 



racemes, "bracts oyate extending to tlae peduncle, pod gla'brescent at first covered 

 with short grey velvety tomentum -without longitudinal furrows. Kurz in Journ. 

 ■ Amt Sac. Beng, xlii. 2, 231. Oarpopogon bracteatiun, Itoxb. Hort. Beng. 64, 



East Hijialayas, tropical zone ; Assam, Masters, Khasia, Griffith, HooJc, JiL ^ 

 Thomson. Chittagong, Boxhurgh, Ava, Pegit and Maetaban. Kurz, 



Closely allied to M. fruricns^ with which it quite agrees in calyx, corolla and 

 shape and texture of leaflets. Leaves grey, with only a few obscure adpressed hairs 

 below. Bachis of the racemes densely grey-pubescent; bracts broader and more per- 

 sistent than in the rest of the group, those of the peduncle acuminate, ^-| in. long. 

 Fod 3-4 in. long, similar in texture to that of M. vrxiricns and similarly abruptly re- 

 curved at the end. 



7. 3S1. hirsuta, W, 4* A, Frodr, 254 ; annual, branches and leaves below 

 f^^-^^ silky, flowers purple in long racemes, bracts small ovate or lanceolate, 



pod ribbed longitudinally clothed with yellow-brown irritating bristles. '- 



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, Plains of Westerx Peninsula, 

 Branches slender, densely clothed with short fine deflexed ferruginous or grey 

 aairs. Leaflets ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, with a cusp, membranous, thinly silky above, 

 densely grey-silky beneath, ferruginous on the veins, 4-6 in. long, liactiites short- 

 peduncled, |-J ft. long, with a densely silky rachis. Calyx and 

 Vrimens, Pod 3-4 in. long, reflexed at the end, 5-6-8eeded. 



8. 2tt. pruriens, -DC. Brodr. ii. 405; annual, branches with a few nd- 

 Pressed hairs, leaves grey-silky beneath, flowers in elongated raceme?; bracts small 

 lanceolate, pod ribbed longitudinally clothed with grey rarely ferruginous weak 

 imtating bristles, JValL^ Cat , 5616 ; Wight in Hooh. Bot Misc, 2, Suppl. t 

 J^. Oarpopogon pruriens, Boxk Hart, Beng. 34; Fl Ind. iii. 283. Dolichos 



:P^iinens, Lvnn. Sp. 1020. M, prurita. Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 348 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 

 ^^0 ; Balz. ^ Oibs. Bomb. FL 70. M. iitUis, Wall. ; Wight Ic. t. 280. 



V ^rom the Himalayas, in the plains, to Ceylon and Birma.— Disteib. Cosmopoli- 



" "1 the tropics. Often cultivated, as are the two following. 



An annual, with slender terete branches, glabrescent when mature. Leaflets 



wmbranous, ovate-rhomboid, green, glabrescent above, lustrous with fine grey silky 



ft»- fi ^^^® beneath, ^-^ ft. long. Racemes short-peduncled, drooping, ^-1 ft. long, tli© 



, ws tnely grey-silky ; pedicels ^-J in. Calyx f in. long, with a few irritating brisUes ; 



PPer hp and lanceolate teeth as long as the tube. Corolla purplish, U-lJ in. long ; 

 Xfi^^ a' ^^^^^^ rather shorter than the slightly incurved keeL Pod 2-3 in. long, 

 ^^■seeded, turgid, clothed with dense persistent bristles which are usually pale 



rown or steel-grey.— 3/. utilis, Wall, is a cultivated variety with a velvety pod. 

 T)kTf^ ^curs in Ceylon with short usually two-flowered peduncles. An aUied 

 uJ? 1- ^ Assam, Masters, known in bud only, has closer laxer pubescence and 

 ^^rge Imear-setaceous bructsl 



^ 9- Itt. capitata, W. ^^ A. Prodr. 255 ; annual, stem and under surface of 

 R J 11 f^'^^ glabrescent, flowers in short-peduncled few-flowered corymbs, bracts 



^OOK 277. 



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Oct of the WEST>:aN and Eastern Himalayas.— Distrib. Java. 



M. prurie7is, 



^ri/n??> 7^^^" a^u snape, but witn only a lew auprcs&t^u uaixo, u^u duivj uciun. 

 Same -P^ 5-6 flowers, on short ascending peduncles. Calyx and corolla the 

 '^ «hortA^ f \^^^^^> 5-6 in. long, similarly turned up at the end, but the bristles much 

 ^:: ::;::: '^^ *^d deciduous. . :^ .::v.;!; 



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