80 J. Pkrkixs: 



blue-green (ex Waruurg), 8,5 cm long, standard lanceolate cal- 

 lose at base of lamina, acute; wings short, obtuse, attached 

 firmh' to lamina of narrowly lanceolate curved keel. Vexillary 

 filament free. Ovary velvety, 8-seeded, stalked, surrounded at 

 the base by a slightly toothed discus; style filiform. 



Luzon Isl., Prov. Tayabas, Sampaloc (Warburg no. 12809; 

 in flower in March 1888).' 



A very distinct species, although near S. rube?- Vog., from 

 which it is distinguished by its subcoriaceous leaves and its 

 green flowers. It resembles S. macrohotrijs A. Gray, U. S. Ex- 

 ploring Expedition p. 448 (1854), t. 49 in having an ovary with 

 several ovules, but differs from it in liaving larger flowers 

 which are green. 



Mucuna Adans. 



1. Mueiiiia siuaiitca DC. 



Luzon Isl., Prov. Zambales (Warburg no. 13713); Mindanao 

 Isl. on the sea coast (Warburg no. 14878). 



2. Miiciiua prurieiis DC. 



Luzon Isl., Mariveles (Warburg no. 12 897); Prov. Manila, Mont- 

 alban (Warburg no. 12 585); Prov. Zambales (Warburg no. 12 806). 



3. Mucuiia sericopliylla Perk. n. sp. A woody climber, with de- 



ciduous rusty pubescence on younger branches. Leaves about 

 15 cm long; leaflets 3, above slightly, beneath densely tomontose, 

 chartaceous, transversely rotundate-elliptic (wider than long), the 

 lateral pair very oblique and truncate at the base, emarginate 

 at the apex; main nerves 7 pairs, veins and nerves on both 

 surfaces slightly conspicuous; length 5 — (5 cm, width 6,5 — 8 cm; 

 petiole 8 mm long. Inflorescence in short-pcduncled racemes 

 reaching 35cm in length; rachis drooping, finely silky; pedicels 

 short (5 mm) from lateral projecting nodes. Calyx 7 mm long, 

 grey-toraentose with many red, pungent bristles, tube campanu- 

 late, about as long as the lower lanceolate tooth; lateral teeth 

 ovate -lanceolate, much shorter than the calyx -tube, 2 upper 

 teeth minute, united at the base. Corolla about 4 cm long. 

 Pod — 7 cm long, 8 mm wide, recurved in lower half and 

 abruptly hooked at the tip, clothed with dense, extremely 

 pungent, subpersistent, rod- brown bristles. 



Luzon Isl., Prov. Cagayaii, Eniilc (W\i;nn;i; no. r_M:iS). 



