STIZOLOBIUM NIVEUM. 15 



This is S. P. I. No. 25120, obtained from Maj. A. T. Gage, super- 

 intendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, British India. Identical 

 with it is S. P. I. No. 22464, from Mr. A. C. Hartless, superintendent 

 of the Government Botanic Garden, Seharanpur, British India. 



This species has been grown for two seasons at Biloxi, Miss., and 

 Gainesville, Fla. It matures with the Florida velvet bean and is 

 about as productive. The pubescence on the pods, however, is rather 

 harsh, rubs off easily, and is irritating to the skin. On this account 

 it mil doubtless not be found desirable for cultivation. 



STIZOLOBIUM CINEREUM. 



Stizolobium cinereum n. sp. Ashy-pod bean. (PI. Ill, A) 



Stems stout, growing 30 to 50 feet long, furrowed, covered with a fine, harsh pubes- 

 cence, the hairs not retrorse; leaflets plane, broadly ovate, mostly obtuse, mucronate, 

 5 to 8 inches long, pubescent on both sides with appressed white hairs, especially 

 beneath; racemes 9 to 15 inches long; calyx saccate, silky with white appressed hairs 

 without, less so within; corolla dark purple, 1£ inches long; pods flattened, 4 to 4£ 

 inches long, densely pubescent with short erect or ascending white hairs; median 

 ridge prominent, complete, the secondary irregular, varying from continuous to broken 

 or sometimes wanting; seeds oblong, ash colored, the ends often black, veiny, about 

 15 mm. long. 



This species has been grown for two seasons at Biloxi, Miss., and 

 Gainesville, Fla. It matures with the Florida velvet bean, but is no 

 more prolific and^the hairs are irritating. 



This is S. P. I.'No. 22463, from Mr. A. C. Hartless, superintendent 

 of the Government Botanic Garden, Seharanpur, British India. 



STIZOLOBIUM NIVEUM. 



Stizolobium niveum (Roxburgh) Kuntze. Lyon bean. (PI. IV, A.) 

 Carpopogon niveum Roxburgh (Flora Indica, 1832, vol. 3, p. 285). 

 Mucuna nivea Wight and Arnott (Prodromus Florae India* Peninsula? 



Orientalis, 1834, p. 255). 

 Mucuna lyoni Merrill (Philippine Journal of Science, Supplement 1, 



1906, pf 197). 



Roxburgh's original description is as follows: 



Annual, twining. Racemes pendulous. Legumes from six to eight seeded, while 

 young downy; when old destitute of down and wrinkled. 



B engal- Khamach . 



Like Carpopogon capitatum, I have only found this in a cultivated state, and even 

 then very uncommon, having seen it but in one or two gardens near Calcutta; how- 

 ever, if it is not indigenous in Bengal, it must have been long known to the natives, 

 not only on account of their having a vernacular name for it, but because it is eaten 

 by them, as a Hindoo requires a long and intimate acquaintance with any article be 

 fore he makes it a part of his diet. Potatoes they must have known fifty years or 

 more before they began to admit them at their tables. 

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