142 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



325. Mucuna altissima (Jacquin) P. DeCandolle. 



Dolichos altissimus Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribaeis 



Detexit, 1760, p. 27. 

 Stizolohium altissimum Persoon, Synopsis Plantarum, II, 1807, p. 299. 

 Mucuna altissima DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vege« 



tabilis, II, 1825, p. 405. 

 Mucuna urens Stahl, Estudios sobre (para) la Flora de Puerto-Rico, III, 1885; 



p. 85 (not DeCandolle). 



In jungle along stream southwest of Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 8j. General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of 

 Pines, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, 

 Panama, and Brazil. 



A vine, climbing in the dense jungle to a height of eight or ten 

 feet. The pods (on our specimen) are borne, four together, on a 

 long hanging peduncle. The largest pods are 20 cm. long, 5 cm. in 

 width, and on one edge ridged with two somewhat scalloped flanges. 

 The valves are irregularly ridged, and are more or less brown-velvety 

 with fine stifif hairs, which, to the skin, are very irritating and some- 

 what poisonous, evidently in this respect resembling closely the notori- 

 ous "cowhage" {Mucuna pruriens). The seeds are borne one to 

 four in a pod and are a dirty yellow-brown, shading towards the 

 raphe into a lighter ashy color, the raphe itself being black and 

 extending about four-fifths the way around the seed. The beans 

 are about 2.5 cm. in diameter, almost orbicular, and about 1.5 cm. in 



thickness. 



326. Calopogonium caeruleum Desvaux. 



Calopogonium cceruleum, Desvaux, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Ser. I, IX, 



1826, p. 423. 

 Stenolobium cceruleum Bentham, Annalen d. K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 



Wien, II, 1838, p. 125. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 14, 1903, A, H. Curtiss, No. 226. 

 General Distribution: West Indies, and from Mexico to southern 



Brazil. 



327. Calopogomum oithocarpum Urban. 



Calopogonium orthocarpum Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, I, 1899, pp. 327-328. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January i, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 26$ • 

 General Distribution: Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, Haiti, and Colombia, 



328. Galactia parvifolia A. Richard. 



Galactia parvifolia A. Richard, in Sagra, Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle 

 de rile de Cuba, Plantes Vasculaires, 1845, p. 414. 



