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acuminate, sparingly pubescent, obscurely reticulate, about 3 

 cm long, 6 nun wide, usually with 3 or 4 seeds. 



Mindanao, Davao District, Mount Bulan, For. Bur. 282A5 

 Mataya, November 23, 1920. Along banks of streams at an 

 altitude of about 40 meters. 



This species rather strongly resembles Cassia polyadenia 

 DC. of tropical America and is manifestly allied to it, although 

 differing in numerous details. 



MUCUNA Adanson 

 MUCUNA FOVEOLATA sp. nov. § Zoopthalmum, Citta. 



Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus plus minusve adpresse 

 cinereo-pubescentibus, ramulis tenuibus; foliolis membranaceis, 

 ovatis, acuminatis, olivaceis, nitidis, 10 ad 15 cm longis, subtus 

 parce pubescentibus, stipellis linearis, usque ad 5 mm longis; 

 inflorescentiis longissime pedunculatis, pendulis, pedunculo ua- 

 que ad 80 cm longo, glabro ; calycis persistentibus, cinereo-pubes- 

 centibus et pilis urentibus instructis; fructibus oblongis, plus 

 minusve ferrugineo-hirsutis, 20 ad 24 cm longis, 5 ad 6 cm 

 latis, 15 cm crassis, apice abrupte et tenuiter acuminatis, pro- 

 funde foveolatis, foveolis numerosis, rotundatis ad oblongis, 

 0.5 ad 1.5 cm longis, haud oblique dispositis. 



A more or less woody vine, the branches terete, glabrous, 

 reddish-brown or brown when dry, the branchlets slender, 

 nearly black when dry, sparingly pubescent with appressed- 

 cinereous hairs. Petioles 6 to 10 cm long, slightly cinereous- 

 pubescent; stipules narrowly lanceolate, about 3 mm long; 

 leaflets membranaceous, ovate, dark olivaceous when dry, some- 

 what shining, 10 to 15 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, slenderly acu- 

 minate, slightly pubescent on the upper surface, ultimately 

 glabrous, the lower surface sparingly pubescent, the terminal 

 one equilateral and subacute at the base, the lateral ones in- 

 equilateral, rounded to subacute ; stipels linear, up to 5 mm long. 

 Flowers unknown. Peduncles of the infructescences pendu- 

 lous, up to 80 cm long, glabrous or nearly so. Persistent 

 calyces cinereous-pubescent with long, scattered, appressed, 

 rigid, brown hairs, the tube about 12 mm long, the lobes lan- 

 <;eolate, acuminate, up to 1 cm long. Pods oblong, flattened, 

 20 to 24 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, about 1.5 cm thick, the base 

 subacute, the apex abruptly and slenderly acuminate, the acu- 

 men about 1.5 cm long, when young more or less ferruginous- 

 hirsute, at full maturity nearly glabrous, both surfaces irregu- 

 larly and deeply foveolate throughout, the foveolae rounded to 



