12. Mucuna.] 43. PAPILIONACJEM 



Subgen. 2. Stizolobium, P. Br. Stems dying down 

 annually. Seeds small ovoid with a small 

 lateral hilum. 



A. L. silky beneath. 



Pod grey with deciduous bristles. Fls. purple 2. pruriens. 

 Pod black with velvety persistent tomentum. 

 Fls. purple Za.utilis. 



B. L. glabrescent beneath. 



Pod as in 2a. Fls. white. L. glabrescent 



beneath • 2&. nivea. 



Pod shortly velvety, glabrescent . . .2c. capitata. 



1. M. imbricata, D.C. Marang atkir, K. ; Itikar orEtka, 



a 



A large climber with slender sparsely hairy branches, 

 3-foliolate stipellate leaves sparsely shortly yellow-hairy 

 beneath, dull purple flowers in pendulous few-flouered lax 

 racemes abont 6-12" long, and pods 5" by 2", easily recognized 

 by the two wings on each snture and the obliquely plaited 

 faces of the pods. 



Eavines in Singbhum, e.g., those north of Longa Burn in Porahat. 

 Rare. Parasnath. Santal Parganahs (Narganj). Fls. r.« Fr. Decr.-Feby. 

 Pods remain long on the plant and were found on Parasnath in May. 



Rachis of leaves exceedingly slender 3-5" long including the petiole. 

 Petioluies stouter 4". Lflts. membranous, the end one 4-6" ell.-lanc. all 

 cuspidate. Pod oblong, the plaits with ferruginous bristles. Style persis- 

 tent as a hard slender beak. 



2. K. prariens, D-C. Alkusi, Atkir, K. ; Etka, S. ; 

 Kivach, H., whence the English name of Cowhage. 



A slender climber with stipellate 3-foliolate leaves silky 

 beneath, drooping short peduncled racemes 6-12'' long of 

 purple flowers li-l|" long. Pod turgid, not plaited, 2-3", 

 densely clothed with brown or grey intensely irritating 

 bristles. 



Chiefly in scrub and grass jungles, frequent. Fls. Bept.-Nov. Fr. 

 Jan.-Feby. 



Branches with few alpressed hairs. Lflts. membranous, apiculate, 

 terminal rhomboid 3-5" by 2|-3", lateral larger with lower side very 



