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CocMianthus.'l 



L. LEGUMiN08^. (J. G. Baker.) 



193 



filiform incurved ; stigma large, terminal. Pod linear, iucm-ved, flattish. 

 ■UisxRiB. A single endemic species with the habit of a slender Macuna. 



1- C. grracills, BentL PL Jungh. 234. Mucuna ? gracilis, (?mA. in Wall. 



NiPAL, jrallich. 



A slender twining subglabrous herb, with both leaves and flower turning black 

 ^nen dried. Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-foliolate, stipellate, membranous, with a 

 lewadpressed hairs on both surfaces, grey beneath; end one ovate-rhomboidal, acumi- 

 a e, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 6-20 in dose racemes on drooping slender peduncles; 

 t>racteoles setaceous, very minute, deciduous. Calyx i in., densely clothed with ad- 

 pressed silky hairs. Corolla 3 times as long as the calyx. 



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67. SPATKOXiOBUS, Hassk. 



. ^?^^y climbers, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves. Floivei's small or middle- 

 ^^? 1^ ^^ple terminal panicles, extending into the axils of the upper leaves, the 

 pedicels densely fascicled at the tumid nodes. Cahjx campanulate, teeth 

 anceolate or oblong-deltoid, the upper two connate. Corolla distinctly ex- 

 erted, its petals subequal, the keel obtuse, nearly straight. Stamem diadel- 

 P^oi^; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, 2-ovuled ; style incurved, 

 ^it^^' stigma capitate. Pod exactly like that of Butea, ^Distrib. Species 

 th 7 v^^^^^ Malayan and one Trop. African. By the pod dehiscing only at 

 seed-bearing apex this aud Butea approach DalberyiecB. 



can ^' ^^^^^^ff^ilj Benth, PL Jiingh. 238; leaflets subcoriaceous grey- 

 stalf ^^^* teneath, end one obovate-rhomboidal, flowers middle-sized, pod 

 ^liced usually equal in width throughout. Butea parviflora, Boxb. HoH, Beng, 

 2fi/ t;-. • ^^^" 248; DC. Prodr, ii. 415; WalL Cat 5440; W. 8f A. Prodr. 

 ^ji ^y^ght Ic. t. 210; Dah. Sf Gibs, Bomb. FL 71. B. sericophyUa, WalL Cat 



^ains from the foot of the West Himalayas to Ceylox^ 



SERrK. 



Martaban 



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lub^ ^^^^^^ climber, with densely grey-downy branches. Petiole \-^ ft. ; leaflets 

 hebr^^fi^*^'-^^^ green, glabrescent above, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, deltoid at 

 ^icelai'- *°* ^^^^- Pa«ic/<? reaching 1-1.^ ft. long; branches very downy; pe- 

 neayi 24 ^^. or less long. Calyx ^ in., densely grey-velvety; lower teeth lanceolate, 

 p^^ J_^®.^^"gasthe tube. Corolla bright red, half as long again as the calyx, 

 thickest ^^' ^^°^' usually 1 in. broad, clothed with ferruginous tomentum, which is 

 ^^^■^Vap ^f '^^^^^^st towards the tip, narrowed suddenly into a stalk i in. long. 



Penang. 

 pod nearly 2 in. broad conspicuously narrowed to the seed- 



"'»«■&, 5442, i, j,„t. 



gineo ^L^^^®*^*^P^^» Benth, PL Jungh. 238 ; leaflets subcoriaceous ferru- 

 dena^?^ ^^^,^* beneath, end one obovate-rhomboidal, flowers small, calyx 



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Butea 



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5442. ex j)nrte. 



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j-aowny 



DisTRiB. Philippines, Cuming, 945. 



^ ^, „,^,, ixriincij ferrugineo-pubescent branches. Petiok 



^ets dull green, pubescent on the ribs above, not at all canescent, but beset 

 ^ oue e-9*'''^^^'^^ ^^^^® ^^^ reticulato-venose beneath, the base rather rounded, the 

 : VoT T^^^' "S- Panicle 1 ft. long: branches very downy; pedicels very short. 



A robnJ"/ ^^''^'''' ^^^ Malacca, Wallich, &c. 

 • in. ; lea 



®^d oup a ft^^^^^^g bairs and reticulato-venose beneath, the base rather rounded, the 



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