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S. P. I. No. 25262, from Saigon, Cochin China. 



S. P. I. No. 24922, from Saigon, Cochin China. 



S. P. I. No. 25870, from Barbados, under the name "Bengal bean." 



S. P. I. No. 25755, from Mauritius. 



S. P. I. No. 21951, from Buitenzorg, Java. 



S. P. I. No. 21953, from Buitenzorg, Java. 



S. P. I. No. 24935, from Colombo, Ceylon. 



This species is also grown in Hawaii under the name of Mauritius 

 bean, and has been obtained from Brazil under the name of Horse- 

 Eye bean. 



Both at Biloxi, Miss., and at Gainesville, Fla., this species grows 

 to a much larger size than the Florida velvet bean, but is much later, 

 so that the pods barely mature. On account of its extreme lateness 

 it is not at all likely that it will be of value under American condi- 

 tions. In Barbados Mr. John R. Bovell, the Superintendent of Agri- 

 culture, writes that it is grown to only a small extent for green ma- 

 nuring. He has never known it to be used for fodder or as human 

 food. 



In Mauritius, according to Director P. Boname, of the agricultural 

 station at Reduit, the Florida velvet bean has proved to be much 

 less luxuriant and valuable. 



As already stated, this plant was identified by Voigt as the Mucuna 

 utilis of Wallich. For the reasons given in the discussion under 

 Stizolobium utile, we regard this identification as erroneous. There 

 is still slight room for doubt in connection with this matter, which, 

 however, can only be cleared up by comparison with the original type. 



STIZOLOBIUM PACHYLOBIUM. 



Stizolobium pachylobium n. sp. Fleshy-pod bean. (PI. V, A, and 



PI. VI.) 



Vines stout, 40 to 60 feet long; stems sparsely pubescent with soft white hairs; leaf- 

 lets 3 to 7 inches long, mostly acute, cuspidate, sparsely appressed-puberulent on 

 both sides, especially on the veins beneath; racemes 1 to 2 feet long, the peduncle 

 often bearing a small leaf; flowers dark purple, 1J inches long; calyx appressed- 

 puberulent without and within, the lower lobe little exceeding the laterals; pods 

 large, 5 to 7 inches long, very fleshy when green, sparsely puberulent with weak white 

 hairs, black and slightly falcate when mature, somewhat compressed, the valves 

 mostly having two complete longitudinal ridges and several secondary ones; seeds 

 much flattened, 18 to 22 mm. long, white with scattered black or gray spots. 



The original seed of this, S. P. I. No. 2.1094, was presented to the 

 Department by Mr. J. C. Vaughan, of Chicago. 



It was sent to him by Mr. A. L. Kennan, from Talgarh, Midnapur, 

 India, who writes: "The spotted bean is very productive, but is 

 cultivated to a very limited extent by the Santals, one of the aborigi- 

 nal tribes of India. They cook the green pods and also the ripened 

 seeds, but do not like either very well." 



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