Mucuna 



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Jacquin in the misapplication of the name, when transferring the two 

 species to the genus Mucuna. D. iirens L. Syst. must therefore be cited 

 as Mucuna sirens (non DC), of which M. altissima DC. is a synonym, 

 and the species known as M. wens DC. must be renamed. 



2. M. Sloanei Fawc. <& Rendle loc. cit. ; leaflets, terminal 

 elliptical, lateral ovate, generally shortly acuminate, densely 

 covered beneath with small adpressed silky hairs ; peduncle about 

 as long as the petiole or twice as long, with several flowers in a 

 subumbellate cluster at the apex ; pod with 2 narrow wings along 

 each margin and numerous obliquely transvei'se narrow wings. 

 — M. urens DC. Prodr. ii. 405 (1825) (excl. ref. to Pluk.) ; Macf. 



Fig. 16. — Mucuna Sloanei Fawc. & Kendle. 



A, rortion of stem with inflorescence and 

 leaves X i- 



B, Stamens and pistil x |. 



C, Pod X h 



Jam. i. 294 ; Benth. torn, cit, 169, t. 46, /. /. (I.) ; Qriseh. loc. cit. ; 

 JJrb. op. cit. iv. 303, v. 372. Mucuna -Marc*/. Bras. 18. Phaseolus 

 brasilianus &c. Sloane Cat. 68 & Hist. i. 178. Phaseolus siliquis 

 latis &c. Plum. Bescr. PI. Amer. t. 107 <k Ic. ined. iv. t. 237. 

 Dolichos urena Jac^. Enum. PL Carih. 27 (1760) & Sel. Stirp. Amer. 

 202, t. 182, /. 84 (excl. syn. Browne) & Ed.pict. 1. 189 ; L. Sp. PL 

 ed. 2, 1020 (so far as it refers to syn. Marcg., Sloane, and Jacq.). 

 Negretia urens Tussac Fl. Ant. ii. 52, t. 13 (1818). (Fig. 16.) 



Horse Eye Bean. 



In fl- Feb. ; Rio Cobre, Guanaboa, Sloane Herb. iii. 69 1 Lane in Herb. 

 Sloane clxii. 81 1 Wright 1 Hope, Broughton I Macfadyen ; Wullschlaegel ; 

 Prior; Chatsworth, Harris\ Fl. Jam. 5590. — West Indies, tropical conti- 

 nental America, tropical west Africa. 



