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finely silky, pedicels short •15-'25 in. usually solitary from lateral pro- 

 jecting nodes ; bracts '5 and bracteoles '3 in. lanceolate, grey-silky, 

 lustrous. Calyx '4i in. long with a few pungent bristles, tube campanu- 

 late hardly as long as the lower lanceolate tooth and equalling the 

 lateral lanceolate and upper triangular tooth. Corolla purple l-25-l*5 

 in. long ; keel slightly incurved, wings nearly as long, standard -6 in. 

 long and about as broad. Pod 2-3 in. long '5 in. wide, turgid, ridged 

 longitudinally, recurved in the lower half and abruptly hooked at the tip ; 

 clothed with dense, intensely pungent subpersistent bristles at first dark 

 purplish brown at length steel grey to pale rusty-brown ; seeds 5-6. 

 Wall. Cat. 5616 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. II, Suppl. t. 13. ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 187. M. jprurita Hook. Bot. Misc. II, 348; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 255 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 211. M. utilis Wall, ex 

 Wight Ic. t. 280. Bolichos pruriens Linn. Syst. Ed. X, 1162. Stizolo- 

 hium pruriens Pers. Synops. II, 299 ; Kuntze Rev. Gren. Plant. I, 208, 

 Carpopogon pruriens Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 283. 



Andamans : Great Coco, near N. Andaman, common, Prain ! Perak- 

 Kampong Kota, Wray 3326 ! Distrib. Throughout the tropics. 



20. Strongtlodon Yoofel. 



Twining herbs, with firm stems and with stipellate 3-foliolate leaves 

 Flowers in long lax racemes. Calyx campanulate, gibbous ; teeth short, 

 obtuse, imbricated. Corolla much exserted; standard lanceolate, re- 

 curved ; wings obtuse, more than a third as long; keel curved, as long 

 as the standard, narrowed into a long beak. Stamens diadelphous 

 anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, few-ovuled, style filiform beardless • 

 stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid. Seeds as large as a bean, with a 

 hilum running more than half round. Species 3, Polynesian. 



Strongtlodon ruber Vogel, Linnaea X, 585. An extensive climber 

 with quite glabrous thin hollow but firm stems. Leaves 8 in. long, 

 petioles 2 in. long glabrous; leaflets 3, bright green, glabrous on both 

 surfaces membranous shining above, ovate, shortly bluntly cuspidate 

 subequal, 4 in. long 2-5 in. wide, terminal rounded at base with petiolule 

 1 in., lateral obliquely cuneate at base with short petiolules ; 3-nerved 

 at base, central nerve with 2-3 pairs of arching lateral nerves all visible 

 beneath; stipels lanceolate membranous '15 in. long, stipules triangular 

 •25 in. long membranous. Inflorescence in copious axillary racemes with 

 peduncles 4-6 in. long of 30-40 1-3 fid. fascicles of pedicellate flowers 

 arising from small produced nodes with obsolete bracts ; pedicels slender 

 spreading, '5-75 in. long. Cahjx glabrous '3 in. long tubular ; teeth very 

 short rounded; 2-bracteolate at base, bracteoles caducous. Corolla 

 bright-red 1 in. long, standard lanceolate acute, the short obtuse wings 



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