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Carpopogon monospermum. Roxb, Hort. Beng. p. 54. 
Dolichos urens. Roxb. Drawing in Mus. of E. Ind. C. 
A twining Shrub, the stem of which sometimes exceeds the 
thickness of a man’s arm, and is covered with rough brown 
bark, The larger branches are often flattened, and sometimes 
two are combined together. On the year-old branches, the 
flowers are produced. The ramuli of the season are terete, 
green, and villous. Petioles long, slender, usually coloured, 
pubescent, swollen at the base, the swollen part covered with 
ferruginous hairs. Leaves ternate: leaflets petiolulate, ellip- 
tical-ovate, triplinerved, reticulated, entire, hairy, especially 
beneath on the ribs, hairs deciduous; the lateral pair 
externally dilated. Stipules of the leaflets subulate. Pe- 
duncles axillary or springing directly from a branch, shorter 
than the petioles, and bearing, near the extremity, five or 
six large round buds, each producing three flowers, all form- 
ing together a large, globose, compound raceme or thyrsus. 
Calyx campanulate, 4-toothed, teeth š, covered with stiff, 
rusty hairs. Corolla papilionaceous; Vexillum short, obtuse, 
embracing the base of the wings and keel; Wings linear- 
oblong, bent upwards near the point, and united; Keel 
very long, straight, except near the point, where it 
bends suddenly at nearly a right angle, and terminates -— 
sharp hooked point: the petals of the keel are united along 
the edges, both above and below, hence the stamens and 
Pistil are completely enclosed, as it were, in a bag. Stamens 
diadelphous; the very long free portions of the filaments 
alternately longer and shorter; the longer bearing rounded 
hairy anthers; the shorter, more slender, oblong, linear, 
glabrous ones. Pistil: Germen compressed, 2 | hairy ; 
Style equal in length with the stamens, villous ; Stigma simp - 
between reniform and orbicular, 2-valved, 1-celled, 
seeded, very deeply furrowed and lamellated on the sides 
and edges, and beset with innumerable stiff ferruginous very 
fragile hairs, which readily penetrate the skin, and cause 
much irritation, Seed solitary, corresponding in form with 
* legume, and circumscribed by a linear scar. 
