LEGUMINOSyK 507 



X X Pods sessile, plain or longitudinalhj ribbed. Seeds tratisversehj oblong. 

 + Fods dense! 1/ setose, not glabrescent. Flowers purple. 



M. puiTRiTA, H. f. Ava and Pegu. 



M. pruriens, L. (ill part). 

 M. ntilis, Wall. 



Khwc-lch. 



Peduncle naked. Flowers arising from a knob. Pods with two longitudinal ribs 

 along the upper suture. Leaves pubescent beneath. 



Tlic hairs which invest the pods cause intense itching, whence the name 

 ' cowitch,' or perhaps more correctly ' eoicage,' which some consider a corruption of 

 ' kiwach,' one of the native names of the plant. The hairs mixed with honey, by 

 dipping the ripe pods therein, and scraping thcra, are sometimes given to children 

 for round worms, who.sc expulsion they contiibutc to by sticking in these animals 

 and causing uneasiness. The remedy is not, however, much used by European 

 practitioners. 



M. prurita is the East Indian plant, and M. pruriens that from the "West Indies. 



AT. (Cakpopogox) bracteata, Kosb. Ava, Chittagong, and Pegu up to 4000 feet. 



Peduncle bracted. Flowers from a secondary peduncle about 2 lines long. Pod 

 ■without ribs. Leaves almost glabrous. 



Another probably new species has been collected by Dr. Brandis somewhere in 

 Pegu, which is very near to 21. atropurpurca, DC, and, indeed, has the same flowers. 

 It differs in the long cuspidate leaflets, slender and short racemes, the lower persistent 

 bracts, which are concave-ovate, long-acuminate, and about an inch long; and the 

 lanceolate, acuminate calyx-lobes (Kurz). 



+ -4- I'uds velictg, glabrescent. Flowers white. 

 M. NiTEA, Roxb. Ava. 



Pods longitudinally ribbed, i foot long. 



f f Style bearded. 



° Stigma oblique. 



§ Free part of filaments straight, alternately shorter. Twining herbs. 



PAcnvRRHizis, Rich. 



Keel not .spirally twisted. Style flat upwards, the stigma almost globose on the 

 inner face. Fod transversely lined between the seeds. 



*P. nrLiiosrs, L. Cultivated all over Burma for its tuberous rhizomes. 



F. angulatus, Rich. 



ViGXA, Saei. 



Keel not spirally twisted, blunt or arcuate-beaked. Style filiform. 



* Stipules not peltatelg attached. Keel prolonged into a distinct beak. 

 X Ovary and pods {at least while young) more or less pubescent to tomentose. 

 Flowers purple or blue. 



° Seeds vchety. 



V. DOLicnoiDEs, Roxb. Chittagong and Arakan. 



Habit of the following. Pods 2-3 inches long by J broad, densely silky villous. 



°° Seeds glabrous. 



V. pii.osA, Roxb. Pegu. 



Tor-peh. 



Flowers about i inch long, forming short-peduncled many-flowered racemes. 

 Pods densely brown hirsute, 2A-3 lines broad by 4-5 inches long. 



