gg Mateiials for a Flora of the Malaijan Peninsula. 



Penang; Wallich (Cat. n. 5621)! Perak; Kinta, Kunstler 7038! 

 Singapore; Chan Ghu Kang, Ridley 2075! Distrib. Java {Forbes m 



493!) 



5. Mucuna gigantea DC. Prodr. II, 405. A. long very slender 

 climber sometimes reacMng 250 feet ! with slender glabrous branches. 

 Leaves 5-9 in. long ; leaflets 3, subcoriaceous dark green, dull, glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; oblong cuspidate, base of terminal cuneate of lateral 

 obliquely rounded, 4-5 in. long, 2-5 in wide, petiole glabrous 5 in. long ; 

 stipels subulate '15 in., stipules linear 2 in. long. Inflorescence a pendulous 

 umbelliform corymb terminating a slender glabrous peduncle 4-18 in. 

 long and bearing near its apex usually 3 sometimes 5-7 small projecting 

 puberulons nodes each emitting 3-5 slender readily disarticulating grey- 

 pubescent pedicels '75 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles both minute and 

 Yery early deciduous. Calijx 'b in. long green with a few pungent 

 bristles, tube rather cylindric '5 in. across, teeth all very short the upper 

 wide subtruncate, the other three in bud shortly triangular at length 

 obsolete. Corolla sickly greenish-yellow or white 1-25-1 '5 in. long, keel 

 not abruptly inflexed at tip ; wings 1-1-25 in., standard '75 in. long '6 in. 

 wide. Pod broadly winged down both sutures faces smooth or with 

 oblique cross ridges but never distinct plaits ; 3-5-6 in. long, 2 in. across, 

 clothed with deciduous yellow-brown in?itating bristles; seeds 2-4. 

 Wall. Cat. 5619 ; W. & A. Prodr. 254 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. II, 

 351, Suppl. t. 14 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 213 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Ind'. II, 186. M, corymhosa Grab. in. Wall. Cat. 5622. Bolichos giganteus 

 Willd. Sp. PI. Ill, 1041- Carpopogon giganteum Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; 

 Plor. Ind. Ill, 286. Stizolohium giganteum Kuntze Rev. Gen. Plant. I, 

 208. Zoophthalmum giganteum Prain MSS. 



Andamans; Coco Group, Prain! Middle . Andaman, If wr^ .' South 

 And?im-dn, Liehig ! Kurz ! Man! Little Andaman, Pram .' always close to 

 salt-water creeks or in Man grove -swamps. Narcondarn, near sea beach, 

 Prain ! Perak ; ScortecUni ! Pahang ; Bidley 1227 ! Distrib. A littoral 

 species on Indian, Indo-Chinese, Malayan and Polynesian Coasts. 



SuBGEN. 2. Stizolobium. Annual climbers ; seeds ovoid with a 



small lateral hilum. 



6. Mucuna fruriens DC. Prodr. II, 405. A slender annual climb- 

 er with adpressed-pubescent branches at length glabrescent. Leaves 

 6-9 in. long ; leaflets 3, membranous ovate-rhomboid, green glabrescent 

 above grey-silky and lustrous beneath, the lateral pair very oblique 

 truncate at base, all 3-5 in. long 2-3 in. wide ; petioles 2-5-4-5 in. long, 

 adpressed silky, petiolules '2 in. long, stipels -15 in. long subulate, 

 stipules lanceolate '2 in. long, hiflorescence of short-ped uncled racemes 

 varying'jfrom 1 in. to 1 foot in length and from 3-30-fld., drooping, rachis 



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