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equales, 3 vel 4 lineas longi, villosi. Stipulelle ad basin petiolellorum subulato-filiformes, pilosi; folioli 
terminalis trilineares, lateralium breviores. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, teretes, villise inerascentes, longi, 
pedales et ultra, superne e callis alternis multiflori, sepe inter callos superiores flexuosi. Calli subglobosi, 
magnitudine seminis cannabini, glabri, distantes, inferiores valde remoti, singulus gerens floseulos plerumque 
binos interdum tres raro quatuor, pendulos magnos (sesquiunciales) e purpureo roseos, breviter pedicel- 
latos, unde modus florendi inter racemum et spicam. Pedicelli villosi, inferiores lineares, superiores sen- 
sim breviores. .Bractec duse opposite, ad basin calycis subrotunde, caducissime. Caly laxe urceolatus, 
parum compressus, magnus 2 uncias longus, villosiusculus, bilabiatus. Zabium superius magnum, bilobum ; 
lobis latissimis, obtusissimis, sinu angusto disjunctis. Labium inferius duplo brevius, trifidum; laciniis 
e lata basi lanceolatis, acutis; lateralibus sublunatis seu apice sursum flexis; intermedia recta. Corolla 
papilionacea, pallide e purpurascenti rosea. Vexillum obcordatum, reflexum, alis paulo brevius; ungue 
superne dilatato; ale oblonge, obtuse, anguste, apice parum adscendentes; unguibus denticulato- sursum 
flexo-acutis. Carina longitudine alarum, illis latior, antice adscendens, obtusa, apice et basi bifida. Fila- 
menta decem, coalita in cylindrum integrum pro germine increscente superne rumpentem, superne libera. 
Antherz ovate, incumbentes. Germen lineare, pubescens. Stylus filiformis, villis longiusculis preditus. 
Stigma simplex. .Legumina nobis non visa, ideoque differentia nostra specifica illis notis melius tradenda, 
distineta tamen species et potius Glycinis quam Dolichos, etsi stylus pubescens, calyce autem ex vexillo 
callis destituto ab his differt.” 
3. C. turgida, Grah. in Wall. Cat. n. 5534; glaber; foliolis ovato-rhomboideis acutis v. ovali- 
oblongis retusis; leguminibus turgidis latitudine triplo longioribus; seminibus 4-5.— Viti Islands 
(U. S. Expl. Exped.). Also collected in the Samoan, Tongan, Society, and Magsi Islands, 
The above description i8 taken from an authentic though imperfect specimen without flowers, pre- 
served at the British Museum. 
A fourth species of this genus, C. galeata, Gaud. (C. Gaudichaudii, Endl., C. pubescens, Hook. et Arn., 
Dolichos galeatus, Gaud.), is indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands. 
X. Mucuna, Adans. Fam. vol. ii. p. 325; Endl. Gen. n. 6665; Benth. Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 254. 
Calyx campanulatus, 2-labiatus, labio superiore lato, integro v. emarginato, inferioris 3-fidi lobo 
medio longiore. Vexillum cordatum, ecallosum, alis et carinze brevibus incumbens; ale oblongo- 
lineares, conniventes, basi auriculis inter se cohzrentibus, carina e basi recta apice subfalcata, in 
rostrum acutum desinens. Stamina 10, alterna longiora, filamento vexillari libero 2-adelpha; antherz 
alternze oblonge, alternz ovate. ^ Ovarium sessile, oc-ovulatum. Stylus longus, tenuis, inferne 
pilosus, apice glaber; stigma minutum. Legumen indehisdens v. tandem 2-valve, lineare, oblongum 
v. ovatum, l-co-spermum, inter semina torosum, extus ssepissime pilis prurientibus hirtum, intus 
isthmis cellulosis inter semina transversim oc-loculare. Semina rotunda, umbilico lineari zonata.— 
Suffrutices v. frutices, longe scandentes ; foliis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis stipellatis; racemis axil- 
laribus elongatis (usque ad 30 ped. long.) v. brevibus, umbelliformibus, fructiferis seepe pendulis, legu- 
minum pilis szepe fragillimis cutem penetrantibus.—Citta, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 557. 
At the British Museum there are no specimens or drawings of the Tongan plant referred by Forster, 
with a mark of doubt, to Dolichos pruriens, Linn.; and it is impossible to guess what species he alluded 
to. Besides the two Mucunas enumerated below, only one has hitherto been collected in Polynesia, 
viz. M. urens, DC., in the Sandwich Islands. ON zie 
1. M. (Zoophthalmum) platyphylla, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 443; fuivo-pubescens ; foliolis 
magnis rotundis apiculatis subtus reticulatis supra mox glabris; floribus cymosis viridulis ; legumi- 
nibus ovalibus plano-compressis transverse lamellosis, junioribus hispidissimis.—Ovalau and Viti 
Levu, at Rewa (U. S. Expl Exped.) and Taviuni (Seemann! n. 120). Also collected in Tahiti 
(Banks and Solander!). | ! dac set 
This, rather than M. wrens, must be the species which Pickering found in the forests of Tahiti, as 
alluded to by A. Gray. i Son ae 
2. M. (Stizolobium) gigantea, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 405; glabra v. subpilosa ; foliolis ovatis 
v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, lateralibus obliquis; floribus corymbosis viridulis ; leguminibus crassis 
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