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This plant grows on the bank of water-courses in rich 
moist soil, flowering from January to about March. It is 
very common in the Circars, near Samul Cottah. I have, 
as yet, discovered only one station to the south, at Vellan- 
garry on the bank of the Salt River. It is a strong twining 
plant, covering, with its long branches and large leaves, a 
great extent of surface, particularly when growing near 
trees, over which it has free scope to spread. 
[Dr. Wight has quoted doubtfully under this, the synonym 
Carpopogon monospermum of Roxb. I possess a copy of a 
drawing in the Museum of the Hon. the East India Com- 
pany, of the same, which bears the name of Dolichos urens ; 
but that plant of Linnzus is a very different species of 
Mucuna, a native of the West Indies, and not included in 
the Hortus Benghalensis, where probably the name of Carpo- 
pogon monospermum* was given to the same plant. It is quite 
unlike any described species of Mucuna in De Candolles 
Prodromus : but belongs to the first division of that author, 
* Legumina sulcis transversis" where there are only two 
species, M. urens and M. mollis, from both which the present 
is at once distinguished by its one-seeded legume. The 
acicular hairs which so copiously cover the fruit, calyx, 
petioles, young branches, and even the young leaves, are 9 
a deep and bright ferruginous colour.—H.] 
Surrr. Tas. XII. Mucuna monosperma. Fig. 1, Stamens, 
including the pistil. Fig. 2, Section of a pod with seed: 
—natural size. 
XIII. 
MUCUNA PRURITA. 
(For Crass and Onpzn, &c., see the preceding Species.) 
Mucuna prurita ; floribus thyrsoideis, leguminibus oblongo- 
_ curvatis compressis ecarinatis urentibus, foliolis subtus 
x e c 
* Dr. Graham tells me that our plant is the same as the one which, in Dr. 
Wallich’s Collection, is called ** Mucuna monosperma,” of Roxb. In our figure, 
e Indian artist, with the view, probably, to show the underside of the i 
med has given their petioles a twist, which brings the lower dilated *' 
uppermost, and gives an incorrect appearance to the leaf. 
