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2. MucuNA MONOSPERMA DC. Prodr. II, 406. A large woody 

 climber with deciduous rusty down on young branches. Leaves 6-9 in. 

 Jong 5 leaflets 3 thinly subcoriaceous green glabrous above, when young 

 rather closely rusty-downy beneath, ovate-oblong cuspidate base rounded 

 — of lateral leaflets obliquely, 3-4 in. long 2-2*25 in. across, petiole 3-5 in. 

 long at first rusty, soon glabrescent; petiolules "25 in., stipels subulate 

 •15 in. ; stipules linear '2 in. Inflorescence corymbose 6-12-fld., axillary, 

 peduncles usually '5-1 in. occasionally elongated 2*5-3 in. long, at first 

 rusty- puberulous as are the pedicels •25-"5 in. long ; bracteoles at base 

 of calyx lanceolate '6 in. long, exceeding the buds ; bracts small tri- 

 angular "15 long very early deciduous and leaving small sears at base of 

 pedicels. Calyx '4 in. long densely covered with pungent deciduous 

 bristles, tube campanulate twice a« long as unequal teeth j upper tooth 

 truncate lateral deltoid lower linear. Corolla 1*5 in. long, purple; keel 

 abruptly inflexed at tip, wings "25 in., standaid '6 in. long '5 in. wide. 

 Tod 275 in. long 2'25 in. wide broadly oblong, wings along the dorsal 

 sutures '5 in. wide along ventral '25 in., plaits "3 in. high crossing the 

 wings to their margins ; clothed in all parts with brown deciduous 

 bHstles ; seeds solitary. Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. II, 346, Suppl. t. 

 12 ; W. & A. Prodr. 254 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 214 ; Bak. in Plor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 185. M. anguina Wall. PL As. Ear. Ill, 19 t. 236. 

 Carpopogon monosjpermum Boxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 283. 

 C. anguineum Boxb. Hort. Beng. 54. Zoophthalmum monospcrmum Prain 

 MSS. 



Andamans ; everywhere very common in the interior jungle. 



3. MucuNA BiPLiCATA Teysm. & Binnend. Cat. Hort. Bog. 261. 

 A large woody climber 30-40 feet long with slender glabrous branches. 

 Leaves 9-12 in. long ; leaflets 3, chartaceous dull green, glabrous on both 

 surfaces ovate-oblong, cuspidate, base rounded — of lateral leaflets obliquely, 

 6-8 in. long, 5 in. across, petiole glabious 4-6 in. long, petiolules "25 in., 

 stipels subulate '15 in. long; stipales linear -2 in.; pulvinus swollen 

 puberulous.* Inflorescence corymbose axillary 2 in. long; peduncle rusty- 

 pubescent arising from an axillary node, its neck surrounded by a num- 

 ber of small triangular acute scaly bracts "15 in, long emitting at once 

 1-4 3-6-fld. branches 1-5 in. long, main rachis corymbosely branched or 

 simple 15-18-fld., bracts at base of pedicels small triangular immediately 

 deciduous ; pedicels '2 in. long ; bracteoles at base of calyx 2 in. long, 

 oblong much shorter than buds. Cakjx greenish-brown densely covered 

 with deciduous pungent bristles, '35 in. long, tube wide-campanulate, teeth 

 extremely short. CoroZZa dark-purple 1-75 in. long; keel abruptly in 

 flexed at tip, wings 1-25 in. long, standard '75 in. wide. Pod hardly 

 stipitate 3*5 in. long 175 in. wide ; plaits oblique very close-set their 



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