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Mucuna pruriens, DC. 



Mucuna prurient, DC; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 187 ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. p. 187; Griseb., 



Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 19S. 

 Mucuna prurita, Hook. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 211. 



Wetter ; Dia. — Commonly cultivated and now almost cosmopolitan in the tropics, 

 though doubtless in many parts only a colonist, as it is wanting in North Australia, and it 

 is not included in Seemann's Flora Vitiensis. Further, there are no Polynesian specimens 

 in the Kew Herbarium. 



Mucuna bracteata, Eoxb. ? 



Mucuna bracteata, Eoxb. ? Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 1SG. 



Timor Laut. — This species has a wide range in India, but we have seen no Archi- 

 pelago specimens that could be referred to it without doubt. 



Mucuna (Stizolobium) sp. 



Timok Laut. — Insufficient for satisfactory determination. A species of Mucuna likely 

 to occur in the South-eastern Moluccas, but of which we have seen no insular specimens east- 

 ward of Timor, is Mucuna gigantea, DC. This species has a very wide range in Tropical 

 Asia, Australia, and Polynesia, from the Fijis to the Sandwich Islands. It is one of the 

 gigantic climbers that interlace the forests of Paritium, Barringtonia, Calophyllum, 

 Thespesia, &c, that succeed the Mangroves which grow below high- water mark. Both 

 Seemanu and Nadeaud specially mention this species. 



Galactia tenuiflora, Wight and Arnott var. ? 



Galactic tenuifiora, Wight and Arnott var.? Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 220; Benth., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 

 255 ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii p. 192. 



Timor Laut. — North Australia to the Himalayas ; Tropical and South Africa ; Tropical 

 America ; but not in Polynesia. 



Canavalia ensiforcnis, DC. 



Canavalia ensiformis, DC. ; Hook, f., FL Brit. Ind., ii. p. 195; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Air., ii. p. 190. 

 Canavalia gladiata, DC. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 216; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 197. 



Arrou ; Timor Laut. — Common nearly all over Tropical Asia, Africa, and Americn, 

 especially in maritime districts ; but apparently wanting in Australia and the Pacific 

 Islands. It is extensively cultivated. 



Canavalia obtusifolia, DC. 



Canavalia obtusifolia, DC; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 215; Benth., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 256; Seem., 

 Fl. Vit., p. 58; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 79; Hook, i., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 196. 



Timor Laut. — Common on sandy coasts in all tropical countries, including most of 

 the Pacific Islands from which we have botanical collections. 



