576 XLVii. LEGUMiNOS^. [Spatholobus. 



nerves 9 pairs, fine ascending, 3 to 35 in. long, i to 1*25 in. wide. 

 Stipels small rigid; stipules lanceolate '25 in. long. Panicles 

 2*5 in. long; branches few i in. long. Calyx campanulate •12 in. 

 long pubescent, teeth rounded upper truncate. Corolla "25 in. 

 long, white or yellow; standard orbicular, refuse. Pod 4 in. long, 

 I in. wide, oblong dilate towards tip, rounded puberulous. Hab. 

 Singapore on a Kempas tree in Botanic Gardens and at Chan Chu 

 Kang. Apparently very local. 



Excluded Species 



S. CRASsiFOLius Benth. PI. Jungh. 238; Prain, I.e. y8; 7 Penang 



{Wallich 5913). 

 It has not again been found in Penang, and Wallich puts a ? 



to the locality. His other specimens were from Sylhet. 



17. MUCUNA, Adans. 



Perennials or annuals. Leaves large trifoliate. Flowers large 

 deep purple, or yellow and white drying black. Calyx campanulate 

 bristly, upper teeth connate lower longer. Corolla long exsert ; 

 standard half as long as keel (beaked). Stamens diadelphous; 

 anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile ; ovules many; style incurved, 

 beardless. Pod oblong or linear, rather thick, large, covered with 

 very irritating bristles. Species 30, tropics. The cowhage plants. 



Pods flat ; seeds large with a hilum extending all round. 

 Pods with plaits across the sides. 



Flowers light dull purple (i) M. biplicata 



Pods without plaits. 



Racemes short corymbose ; bracts large boat- 

 shaped ; flowers fawn and white . . • {-) M. acuminata 

 Racemes long peduncled ; bracts minute ; flowers 



pale yellow . . . . . . . (3) M. gigantea 



Pods swollen, hooked; bracts minute oval; hilum 

 small. 

 Flowers purple . (4) M, pruriens 



(i) M. biplicata Teysm. and Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 261 ; 

 Prain, I.e. 66. M. atropurpurea Baker, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 

 186 in part. 



A large cHmber 30 to 40 ft. long, glabrous. Leaves 9 to 12 in. 

 long; leaflets ovate-oblong cuspidate, base round (laterals oblique), 

 6 to 8 in. long, 5 in. across ; petioles 4 to 6 in. long. Inflorescence 

 corymbose 2 in. long, 15- to i8-flowered, velvety; pedicels -2 in. 

 long. Calyx greenish brown densely pungent-bristly, -35 in. long, 

 campanulate, teeth minute. Corolla light dull purple, 175 in. 

 long; standard 75 in. wide. Pod oblong 3*5 in. long, 175 in. wide, 

 covered with close-set oblique plaits, edges of pod double reflexed. 

 iJaZ». River banks and forests. Johor, KotaTinggi. Pahang, Kwala 

 Tembeling. Malacca, Mt. Ophir (Maingay). Perak, near Gunong 



