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liriicnth vtTV di'iisclv grayish puhe'srcnt. alxivc |)ubcsecnt, especially on 

 the nerves; nerves rather pi'oiiiinent, (i to T pairs. Kacemes densely 

 cinereous pubescent and with brownish stinging hairs. Pedicels about 

 5 mm. long. Calyx about 1 cm. long, the teeth acute or acuminate, 

 cinereous pubescent and with numeruos long, brownish red, stinging hairs. 

 Corolla black-purple, about 3.5 cm. long; standard about 2 cm. long; 

 wings slightly shorter than the keel, the latter somewhat inflexed at the 

 apex. Pod flat, straight, abruptly hooked at the apex, with about .") 

 seeds. 



Luzon-, Province of Union, Bauang (5999 Elmer) Februaiy, 1904, distributed 

 as Miicmia sericophylla Perk., from which it differs in its apiculate, not retuse 

 leaflets, somewhat smaller flowers, and much broader pods. 



Mucuna lyonii Merrill sp. nov. % Stizolobhim. Negretia milis Blanco (non 

 Beauv.) Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 588; ed. 2 (1845) 410; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 

 388; Naves 1. c. f. 'fOo bis. Mncuna nivea F.-Vill. (non DC.) Nov. App. 

 (1883) 63. 

 A scandent annual vine with somewhat pubescent, with apiculate 

 leaflets, axillary racemes 30 to 40 cm. long, of very pale green, nearly 

 white flowers 4 to 4.5 cm. long and narrowly oljlong pods 10 to 12 cm. 

 long, 2 cm. wide, densely covered with brown or gray hairs, not plaited 

 or winged. Stems striate, pubescent with appressed grayish hairs. Leaves 

 25 to 40 cm. long, the leaflets three, membranous, the terminal one broadly 

 ovate, regular, the apex acute or obtuse, the base subtruncate-acute, 11 to 

 14 cm. long, 9 to 11 cm. wide, the lateral leaflets 20 cm. long and 12 cm. 

 Avide, or less, oblique-truncate at the base, much broader on one side 

 of the midrib than on the other, the apex apiculate, glabrous and shining 

 above, beneath paler and with scattered appressed rather long grayish 

 hairs; petioles 30 cm. long or less, somewhat pubescent; petiolules 

 nearly 1 cm. long, rather densely pul)escent ; stijiels subulate, about 2 

 mm. long. Eacemes 30 to 40 cm. long, many flowered, more or less 

 ai)pressed grayish pubescent. Flowers in groups of threes, the inter- 

 nodes 1.5 to 2 cm. long, the pedicels ahout 8 nmi. long. Calyx pale 

 green, rather densely appressed grayish pubescent, the upper tooth 

 triangular-ovate, acute, 7 to 8 mm. long, the lower lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1 cm. long, the two lateral ones lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5 mm. 

 long. Standard In'oadly elliptical-ovate, 2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, obtuse, 

 minutely retuse; wings 4 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, auriculate at 

 the base, claw short; keel equaling the wings, the u])per 1 cm. inflexed, 

 aui-icled at the base, the claw short. Ovary hirsute. Pods slightly 

 turgid, somewhat curved, mucronatc at the apex, slightly compressed 

 between the seeds; seeds about 6. 



Description from plants raised in ^lanila by TF. S. Lyon of the Bureau of 

 Agriculture, the seeds from Pampanga Province, Luzon, known to the Pampangans 

 as Sahual.. Blanco gives only the Spanish names Hahas and (larhanzos. 



