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beneath vcrv densely grayish pubescent, above pubescent, especially on 

 the nerves; nerves rather prominent, <> to 7 pairs. Racemes densely 



cinereous pubescent and with brownish stinging hairs. Pedicels about 

 5 nun. long. Calyx about 1 cm. long, the teeth acute or acuminate, 



cinereous pubescent and with numeruos long, brownish red, stinging hairs. 

 Corolla black-purple, about 3.5 cm. long; standard about 2 cm. long; 

 wings slightly shorter than the keel, the latter Bomewhat indexed at the 

 apex. Pod tlat, straight, abruptly hooked at the apex, with about 5 



seeds. 



Luzon, Province of Union, Bauang (5!)!)?) Elmer) February, 1904, distributed 



as Muruna sericophyUa Pork., from which it differs in its apiculate, not refuse 

 leaflets, somewhat smaller flowers, and much broader pods. * 



Mucuna lyonii Merrill sp. now § Stizolobium. Vegretia mitts Rlanco (non 

 Beauv.) Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 588; ed. 2 (1845) 410; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 

 388; Naves 1. c. /. }05 his. Mucuna nivca F.-Vill. (non DC.) Nov. App. 

 (1883) 63. 



A scandent annual vine with somewhat pubescent, with apiculate 

 leaflets, axillary racemes 30 to 40 cm. long, of very pale green, nearly 

 white flowers 4 to 4..*) cm. long and narrowly oblong pods 10 to 12 cm. 

 long, 2 em. wide, densely covered with brown or gray hairs, not plaited 

 or winged. Steins striate, pubescent with appressed grayish hairs. Leaves 

 25 to 40 em. long, the leaflets three, membranous, the terminal one broadly 

 ovate, regular, the apex acute or obtuse, the base subtruncate-acnte, 11 to 

 14 em. long. 9 to 11 cm. wide, tbe lateral leaflets 20 cm. long and 12 cm. 

 wide, or less, oblique-truncate at tbe base, much broader on one side 

 of the midrib than on the other, tbe apex apiculate, glabrous and shining 

 above, beneath paler and with scattered appressed rather long grayish 

 hairs; petioles 30 cm. long or less, somewhat pubescent; petiolules 

 nearly 1 cm. long, rather densely pubescent; stipels subulate, about 2 

 mm. long. Racemes 30 to 40 cm. long, many flowered, more or less 

 appressed grayish pubescent. Flowers in groups of threes, tbe inter- 

 nodes 1.5 to 2 cm. long, the pedicels about 8 nun. long. Calyx pale 

 green, rather densely appressed grayish pubescent, tbe upper tooth 

 triangular-ovate, acute, 7 to 8 mm. long, tbe lower lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1 cm. long, the two lateral ones lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5 mm. 

 long. Standard broadly elliptical-ovate, 2.5 cm. long. 2 cm. wide, obtuse. 

 minutely retuse ; wings 4 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, auriculate at 

 the base, claw short; keel equaling the wings, the upper 1 cm. indexed, 

 auricled at the base, the claw short. Ovary hirsute. Pods slightly 

 turgid, somewhat curved, mucronate at the apex, slightly compressed 

 between the seeds ; seeds about <>. 



Description from plants raised in Manila by W. X. Lyon of the Bureau of 

 Agriculture, the seeds from Pampanga Province, Luzon, known to the Pampangans 

 as Sabual. Blanco gives only the Spanish names Habas and Oarbanzos. 



