ALAIIASTKA PIIILirriXKXSIA, TT. 183 
to create a series of new combinations to be buried iii syiionyniy as soon as 
another congress of similar spirit has an ni)]K>rtniiity to do so. No new name is 
here proposed, as it wonhl only add to the complications whicli are already too 
numerous. 
Considerations of usage or expediency alone can have led to the arbitrary 
rejection of PediceUaria by the majority of the Vienna Congress, as it was 
monotypic, based professedly upon the Litiiiaean species, and published the new 
combination PediceUaria pentaphylla. 
The species is cosmopolitan in the tropics, and abundant in the riiilippines, 
represented in the herbarium of the Philippine Bureau of Science by collections 
from the Islands of Luzon, :\[indoro, Tunay, and :\lindanao {WiUiams 29S8) . 
INDIGOFERA Linn. 
Indigofera nigrescens Kurz ex Prain in Jour. As. Soc. Bengal 67- (1898) 280. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Kias TTill, Williamfi i)2i), flowers and fruit, Sep- 
tember 11, 1904; Loakan, IViHrnms J//i5, fruit, October 18, 1904; Bagnio, FJmcr 
6582, flowers, July 18, 1904; Pauai, Bur. Bci. J,21S, IfSOG, UoS Mearns, flowers, 
July-AugiiM, 1907; without definite locality. Bur. Sci. 3J,62 Mearns, flowuis, July, 
1907. 
Distribution, Khasia :\Iountains, Lidia, and southwestern China; not pre- 
r 
viously credited to the Philippines. • 
MUCUNA Adans. 
Mucuna aurea sp. nov. 
Scandcns; foliis trifoliolatis, folioli^^ lateralibus late ovatis, basi truii- 
catis, terminal i rhoinboideo ; floribiis circiter 5 cm longis, pcdicellis auroo- 
tomentosis, crassis, 1.5-1.7 cm longis snffultis. 
Inflorescence a somewhat zigzag raceme, at least 13 cm long, yellowish- 
tomentose with hairs about 0.5 mm long and others interspersed of 
rather deeper color 1.5-2 mm long, whicli ai;e especially frequent xipon 
the calyx; pedicels 1.5-1.7 cm long, ?-2.5 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, borne singly or in pairs: flowers 5.5-5.G cm long; calyx 
])roadly campanulate, the tube 1.1-1.3 cm long, the lateral lobes semicir- 
cular, acuminate, or in all nearly triangular, 7 mm long, the basal lobe 
triangular, nearly 1 cm long, upper lobes united; petals 5, those of the 
keel clawed, subfalcate, acute at the apex, 5 cm 'long, 6.5-8 mm wide, 
glabrous except at the base and for occasional scattered hairs elsewhere, 
the basal three-fifths united; wings 5.2 cm long, 1.2-1.3 cm wide, clawed, 
rounded at the apex, slightly hastate near the base, tomentose on the 
basal fourth of the upper margin and in the outer lower basal corner; 
standard suborbicular, 2.7-2.8 cm long, 2.5 cm wid(^, cordate at the base; 
stamens 10, -1.8-5 cm long, all except the uppermost forming a tube 
for about 3.G cm; pistil at anthesis 5.6 cm long, the ovary sessile, villose- 
tomentose, 9 mm long, the style filiform, tomentose, stigma small, 
capitate; ovules 3, oval to rhomboid: fruit unknown. 
