OCTOBER 21, 1907] Some New LEGUMINOSAE 230 
pubescent bristle, the base deeply cordate or roundly lobed, 
the apex widely lobed one third the length, the lobes acute, 
margins subentire or obscurely undulate and densely ciliate 
with short reddish brown hairs, slightly folded ventrally. 
Inflorescence terminal, erect or suberect, raceme spicate or 
frequently branched from near the base, 1 to 2 cm. long; 
pedicels 3 to 5 cm. long, slender, usually straight and 
divaricate, fuliginously pubescent, bracteate; flowers deciduous, 
yellow when fresh, soon turning to a light brick red; calyx 
equally pubescent, 8 mm. long, ultimately separated and 
reflexed into 4 to 5 unequally wide lanceolate to narrowly 
elliptic segments; petals membranous, 5, radially spreading, 
finely pubescent on the outer side and densely so on the 
claw, slenderly clawed, very unequal, the smaller one 12 
mm. long and 4 mm. wide, oblong to elliptic, the larger 
one 12 mm. wide; stamens 3, fertile; filaments thickened 
and pubescent toward the base, free, 13 mm. long; anther 
3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, oblong, versatile, dehiscing 
longitudinally; ovary ciliate pubescent as is also the thick 
suberect 5 mm. long style; pod flat, smooth, hard, pendulous, 
the color of brown leather, 6 mm. wide, 2.3 dm. long, both 
ends very bluntly obtuse, 9 to ll-seeded, bursting and form- 
ing twisted rolls; the beans nearly circular except the pointed 
place of attachment, about 2 cm. in diameter, 2 mm. thick, 
very flat, hard, brown, smooth around the margin, crinkled 
on the central portion of the sides. 
Type specimen 8897, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. It was found only in a 
few places along the river just above the barrio of Sablan. 
It is nearest related to B. cumingiana F. Vil. but with 
larger flowers and larger leaves whose nerves beneath are 
densely pubescent. Named after Dr. H. N. Whitford. 
Mucuna curranii n. sp.—A liana like climbing shrub or 
widely sprawling over limestone cliffs; stems and main 
branches. flexible but tough. Leaf petiole 5 mm. long, slender, 
glabrous, much thickened and usually twisted at the base, 
extended about 2 cm. above the first leaflets; interaxillary 
bracts subglabrous, acuminate, 3 mm. long; petiolule 3 mm. 
long, articulate, subtended by 3 mm. long bristle like stip- 
