ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE LEGUMINOSAE. 115 



a banner 4 cm longf, ami tlie style 5 cm loiii;-, but none of the flowers on the 

 specimen before me, which are apparently immature, exceed 3 cm in length. 

 Endemic. 



4. Strongylodon lucidus (Forst.) Seem. Fl. Vit. (1865-68) 61; Merr. in 

 Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 424. 



Glf/cinc Iiirida Forst. Prodr. (1786) 51. 



Rhynchosla lucida DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 387. 



HtroiKjuJodon ruhrr Vog. in Linnaea 10 (1836) 585; A. Gray Bot. Wilkes 

 U. S. Explor. Exped. (1854) 446, t. J,S; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. 2 (1876) 

 191; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 - (1897) CO. 



Balut Island, Merrill 5'fll. 



Ceylon, Andaman Islands, New Guinea to the Fiji Islands and Hawaii. 



5. S. caeruleus Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 20. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Elmer 6097, 8908; possibly also represented by 

 Topping 58, and Elmer G.'i'SS from the same Province, and by Bur. Sci. 3304 

 Ramos, from Rizal Province, Luzon. 



Endemic. 



6. Strongylodon crassifolius Perk. Frag. Fl. Pliilip. (1904) 85. 

 Luzon, Province of I'ataan, Mariveles, {Wariurg 12899). 



A species known to me only by description. The types of this, and of S. wur- 

 burgii, are in the Berlin Herbarium, but at the time of my visit there in January, 

 1908, neither had been distributed into the herbarium, and were hence un- 

 available for study. Described as having long, circinnate tendrils, a character 

 otherwise unknown in the genus. 



Endemic. 



7. Strongylodon pulcher C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) 

 Bot. 184. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, WiUia7ns 2362: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 

 415, s. n. 

 Endemic. 



72. MUCUNA Adans. 



Perennials; pods flat or cylindric, winged on both sides, the seeds large, flattened 

 or globose, with a hilum extending round the greater part of their periphery 

 ( Subgen. Zoopthalmum ) . 

 Pods Avith plaits across their faces (§ Citta). 



Pod 5 to 7 cm wide, with numerous, very irritating, brown hairs; flowers 



dark-purple 1. M. nigricans 



Pod 3 cm wide, with few and scarcely stinging hairs; flowers nearly white. 



2. M. curranii 

 Pods without plaits across their faces ( § Carpopogon ) . 

 Pods flat, broad, glabrous, or with long stinging hairs. 



Pods about 20 cm long, less than 1 cm thick, glabrous, distinctly reticulate, 



terminated by a slender 1 to 2 cm long acumen 3. M. mindorensis 



Pods less than 15 cm long, rusty-hispid with stinging hairs, 1 to 1.5 cm 

 thick, not reticulate, tlie tip rounded or obtuse, sometimes with a 



very short apiculus 4. M.giganfca 



Pods cylindric, densely pubescent with very short, gray, nonirritating hairs. 



5. M. longipedunculata 



