54 FLORA OF JAMAICA Mucuna 



Stem climbing over high trees. Leaflets, 7-16 cm. 1., 4'5-9.cm. br. ; 

 petioles 7-11 cm. 1. Pedicels about 1 cm. 1. or rather less. Flowers yellow. 

 Calyx : tube about 1 cm. 1. ; upper segment very broad, entire or shortly 

 2-toothed ; lateral smaller ; the lowest longer, about equalling the tube, 

 triangular, acute. Corolla: standard spreading erect, 3-3*5 cm. 1., about 

 half as long as the wings ; wings 5-5 5 cm. 1., claw very short ; keel a little 

 longer than the wings. Pod 10-15 cm. 1., about 4 cm. br., hispid with 

 bristly hairs and pubescent ; wings 2-5 mm. br. Seeds 2-4, compressed- 

 roundish, almost surrounded by the hilum, 2 to nearly 3 cm. in diam. 



3. M. Faweettii Urb. Symb. Ant. v. 371 (1908); leaflets 

 roundish or roundish-elliptical or roundish-ovate, abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate, densely covered beneath with adpressed silky 

 hairs ; peduncles about as long as the petioles, expanded at the 

 end into a flattish-convex receptacle (1 cm. br.), from which 

 spring several flowers; pod 1 -seeded and obovate-semiorbicular 

 or 2-seeded and oblong-elliptical, with ribs along the margins 

 almost obsolete. 



In fl. Nov., Dec. ; near Troy, 2000 ft., Harris \ Fl. Jam. 8818, 9102. 



Stem climbing over rocks. Leaflets, 13-17 cm. 1., 12-15 cm. br. ; petioles 

 1-2 dm. 1. Bracts forming an involucre round the receptacle, the outer 

 somewhat elliptical, the inner narrower and even linear. Pedicels about 

 1 cm. 1. Flowers yellow. Calyx : tube 1-1-2 cm. 1. ; upper segment very 

 broad, entire, lateral and lowest about equal, 8-9 mm. 1. Corolla : standard 

 two-thirds as long as the wings, 5-5 '5 cm. 1. ; wings 7-8 cm. 1., slightly 

 shorter than the keel. Pod 12 cm. 1., 5-5 cm. br., covered with tomentum, 

 amongst which are scattered bristly hairs. Seeds 1 or 2, flattened-roundish, 

 3 '5-4 cm. in diam., almost surrounded by the hilum, which is about 

 1 cm. br. 



4. M. pruriens DC. Prodr. it. 405 (1825) ; leaflets, terminal 

 rhomboid, lateral triangular, with long adpressed hairs beneath ; 

 peduncles as long as the petioles or longer, with numerous 

 flowers, 2 or 3 together in a long raceme ; pod with ribs along 

 each margin concealed by dense brownish-yellow itching hairs. - 

 Wright Mem. 209 ; Macf. loc. cit.; Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 18; Benth. 

 loc. cit. t. 46, /. I. (II.) & II. , Griseb. loc. cit. ; Urb. Symb. Ant. 

 iv. 303. Cacara pruritus Rumpli. Amboin. v. 393, t. 142. Phaseolus 

 americanus foliis &c. Pluk. Phyt. t. 214,/. 1. Phaseolus utrinque 

 Indise &c. Slocme Cat. 69 & Hist. i. 37. Stizolobium spicis &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 290, t. 31, f. 4; Rev. J. Lindsay Ic. ined. 

 Dolichos pruriens L. Syst. ed. 10, 1162 (1759) & Sp. PL ed. 2, 

 1019 ; Jacq. Sel Stirp. Amer. 201, t. 122 & Ed. pict. t. 188. 



Gowhage, Cowitch, Vine Gungo Pea. 



In fl. Oct. -Feb. ; Sloane Herb. hi. 75! Browne; Distinl St. Mary, 

 McNab ! J.P. 636, Morris ! Yallahs Valley, Watt ! Hope grounds, Cr ad- 

 wick \ also Harris ! above Cane River Falls, Fawcett ! also Harris ! Tyre, 

 near Troy (cultivated) Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6593, 7353, 8257, 8622, 9097; 

 Bog Walk, Hitchcock ; Porus, Lloyd. Tropics. 



Stem, climbing over bushes and low trees. Leaflets 7-15 cm. 1, 6-9 cm. 

 br. ; petioles 1-3 dm. 1. Flowers dark brown purplish, rarely light yellow 

 and white. Calyx : tube 5-6 mm. 1., 3 upper segments triangular, acute, 



