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acuminated, the length of the tube: legume linear, curved, very densely co- 
vered with rigid stinging brittle hairs: hilum linear.— Wight ! cat. n. 750. 
` 485. (5) M. prurita (Hook. :) annual: branches pubescent or only slightly 
hairy: leaflets ovate; upper side glabrous, under sprinkled with adpressed 
silvery hairs: racemes shorter than the leaves, peduncled, drooping: pedi- 
cels shorter than the calyx: calyx cleft to the middle, white with adpressed 
hairs; segments broad-lanceolate: legume slightly curved like an 8, densely 
clothed with rigid stinging hairs, about 6-seeded ; valves not keeled longi- 
tudinally along the middle: hilum linear—Hook. bot. misc. 2. p. 348.—M. 
pruriens, Wall. L. n. 5616; Wight ! in Hook. bot. misc. 2. suppl. t. 13 ; cat. n. 
155.—Dolichos pruriens, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 284.—Carpopogon pru- 
riens, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 283.—Stizolobium pruriens, Spr.? syst. 3. p. 252.— 
Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 35 ; Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 142. " 
* 786. (6) M. capitata (DC.:) annual: young shoots slightly pubescent : 
leaflets ovate, acute or obtuse, mucronate ; upper side nearly glabrous, un- 
der sprinkled with adpressed silvery hairs: peduncles axillary, very short, 
bearing several umbellate flowers at its apex : calyx cleft to the middle, white 
from adpressed hairs ; segments lanceolate, acuminated : legume nearly cylin- 
drical, slightly curved, densely and rather softly pubescent, 5—6-sceded ; 
valves irregularly wrinkled longitudinally: seeds oval; hilum linear-oblong, 
rather short (not extending one-fourth round the seed).— DC. prod. 2. p. 406 
(without char.) ; Wight ! cat. n. 754.—Dolichos Soorootoo, Rowxb. in EIG 
mus. tab. 285.— Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 1882. : f 
Roxburgh only knew this in a state of cultivation : our specimens are from 
Klein’s herbarium, marked “ Dol. pruriens,” and obtained from the Mission- 
aries’ Garden. M. niveum, DC. (Carpopogon niveum, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. 
tab. 1601), is a species very closely allied, but differs by the long drooping 
racemes, and the legumes, when ripe, entirely free from pubescence: it like- 
wise is only known as a cultivated plant. 
LII. CANTHAROSPERMUM. W.& A. 
Calyx ebracteolate, 4-cleft ; segments nearly equal ; upper broader than the 
others, split at the apex. Corolla papilionaceous, longer than the calyx, de- 
ciduous : petals all about the same length: vexillum recurved or reflexed, ob- 
long-obovate, without callosities at the base: keel faleate. Stamens diadel- 
phous (9 and 1), the tube somewhat persistent. Ovary 4-8-seeded: upper 
part of the style and stigma glabrous. Legume oblong-linear, compressed, 
3-8-seeded, transversely constricted between the seeds externally, and with 
slight coriaceous dissepiments between them internally, Seeds oblong, trans- 
verse, with a large fleshy bifid carunculus at the hilum.—T wining plants. 
Leaves pinnately trifoliolate: leaflets soft and more or less velvetty on both 
sides. Stipules caducous: partial ones bristle-like, inconspicuous. Pedun- 
cles axillary, several flowered. 
The habit of thi i ia, he somewhat persistent stamen- 
tube Se robe agama Sol gy ma the p pore 
not merely cellular, as in many of the Phaseole, but hard, an 
: icted 
with the legume itself, and are formed by the opposite valves being so constricte 
as to meet : the legume however splits when ripe, as in the iamen. Aut = 
name is taken from the specific appellation given to the species 
787. (1) C. paueiflorum (W. & A.:) biennial : leaflets obovate, slightly ru- 
sind Coa m the eet side: ai Aaah shorter than the ger us 
often 2-) flowered: calyx about half the length of the corolla, ele À e 
dle ; segments S Mom! éstd; slightly curved upwards : m um 
recurved: legume linear, velvetty or hairy.— Wight! eat. n. 158.—Cajanus 
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