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a banner 4 cm long, and the style 5 cm long, but none of the flowers on the 
specimen before me, which are apparently immature, exceed 3 cm in length. 
Endemie. 
4. Strongylodon lucidus (Forst.) Seem. Fl. Vit. (1865-68) 61; Merr. in 
Philip. Journ, Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 424. 
Glycine lucida Forst. Prodr. (1786) 51. 
Rhynchosia lucida DC, Prodr. 2 (1825) 387. 
Strongylodon ruber Vog. in Linnaea 10 (1836) 585; A. Gray Bot. Wilkes 
U. S. Explor. Exped. (1854) 446, ¢. 48; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 
191; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66* (1897) 69. 
BaLut IstaAnpd, Merrill 5411 
Ceylon, Andaman Islands, New Guinea to the Fiji Islands and Hawaii. 
5. S. caeruleus Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 20. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Elmer 6097, 8908; possibly also represented by 
Topping 58, and Elmer 6438 from the same Province, and by Bur. Sci. 3304 
Ramos, from Rizal Province, Luzon. 
Endemic. 
6. Strongylodon crassifolius Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 85. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mariveles, (Warburg 12899). 
A species known to me only by description. The types of this, and of S. war- 
burgii, are in the Berlin Herbarium, but at the time of my visit there in January, 
1908, neither had been distributed into the herbarium, and were hence un- 
available for study. Described as having long, circinnate tendrils, a character 
otherwise unknown in the genus, 
Endemic. 
7. Strongylodon pulcher C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) 
Bot. 184. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Williams 2362: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 
415, 8. MN. 
Endemic. 
72. MUCUNA. Adans. 
Perennials; pods flat or cylindric, winged on both sides, the seeds large, flattened 
or globose, with a hilum extending round the greater part of their periphery 
(Subgen. ZOOPTHALMUM). 
Pods with plaits across their faces (§ C1TTa). 
Pod 5 to 7 em wide, with numerous, very irritating, brown — flowers 
dark-purple  ............1..-...ssssosssesesescsnensepeenstuatensssesssetsasesseeeeesenemnees M. nigricans 
Pod 3 em wide, with few and scarcely stinging hiars: Palle nearly white, 
M. curranii 
Pods without plaits across their faces (§ CARPOPOGON ). 
Pods flat, broad, glabrous, or with long stinging hairs. 
Pods about 20 cm long, less than 1 em thick, glabrous, distinctly reticulate, 
terminated by a slender 1 to 2 em long acumen........ 3. M. mindorensis 
Pods less than 15 cm long, rusty-hispid with stinging hairs, 1 to 1.5 em 
thick, not reticulate, the tip rounded or obtuse, sometimes with a 
very short apiculus........-------e-s-eeceseeeececsees seen eeeeesereteenetes 4. M. gigantea 
Pods cylindric, densely pubescent with very short, gray, nonirritating hairs. 
5. M. longipedunculata 
