Temmnus.'] L. LEGUMINOS^E. (J. G. Baker.) 185 



2. T. flexilis, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 265 ; leaflets large acute, 

 flowers in sessile congested racemes, calyx-teeth shorter than the tube. Glycine 

 flexilis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5521. 



EAST HIMALAYAS ; forests of ASSAM, SILLET and CHITTAGONG. 



More robust than the last, of which it may be a mere variety. Stems, petioles and 

 leaves nearly glabrous. Leaflets subcoriaceous, the end one 3-5 in. long. Eacemes 

 1 in. or less long. Calyx-teeth lanceolate-deltoid. Pods glabrous, 2^-3 in. long. 



60. MUCUNA, Adaiia. 



Perennials and annuals of wide-twining habit. Leaves ample, stipellate, 

 always 3-foliolate. Floivers large, showy, usually dark purple, turning quite 

 black when dried. Calyx-tube canipanulate ; two upper teeth quite connate ; 

 lowest longer than the middle ones. Corolla much exserted ; standard not more 

 than half as long as the rostrate keel, which usually a little exceeds the wings. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers dimorphous, like those of the Genistea. Ovary 

 sessile, many-ovuled ; style incurved, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod very 

 variable in shape and sculpture, usually covered with brittle needle-like irritating 

 bristles. DISTRIB. Species above 20, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



STJBGEN. 1. Amphiptera. Pod broadly winged down both sutures and 

 the faces covered also by close oblique plaits. 



1. HE. imbricata, DC. Prodr. ii. 406. Oarpopogon imllmcatuna, Roxb. 

 HorL.Beng. 54; M. monosperrna, Wall. Cat. 5623 0, ex parte. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, SILHET, SIKKIM, ASSAM, tropical region, 1-4000 ft., Wallick 

 Griffith, Hook. Jll. 



A woody climber, with slender glabrescent branches. Leaflets membranous, with a 

 few minute adpressed grey hairs below, glabrous above ; the end one oblong-cuspi- 

 date, 5-6 in. long. Eacemes few-flowered, lax, on drooping peduncles 2-12 in. long; 

 pedicels \^ in. long ; bracts large, roundish, soon deciduous. Calyx ^ in. long, with 

 a few irritating bristles ; teeth all nearly as long as the tube. Corolla dull purple, 

 2-2 J in. long ; keel abruptly inflexed at the tip ; wings ^ in. broad ; standard half as 

 long as the keel, 1 in. broad. Pod oblong, 4-6 in. by 2 in., 2-4-seeded, clothed with 

 abundant deciduous, irritating bristles ; wings of sutures finally ^ in. broad. 



]\I. ACUAIINATA, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5621 from PENAXG, may perhaps belong to 

 this group, but the fruit is unknown. The calyx is like that of M. imbricata, but the 

 corolla is smaller and the racemes are short-peduncled and corymbose like those of 

 M. monospcrma. 



. 2. Gitta, Lour. Pod with the faces covered by close oblique 

 plaits, but not winged down the sutures. 



2. M. monosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 406; leaflets with a little ferru- 

 ginous down, racemes short-peduncled close, upper calyx-lip sub truncate, pod 

 one-seeded nearly as broad as long. Wall. Cat. 5623 A, B ; Wight in Hook. Bot. 

 Misc. ii. 346, Suppl. t. 12 ; W. $ A. Prod. 254 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 70. 

 Carpopogon rnonospermum, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 54 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 283. M. 

 <jristata, Ham. MSS. M. corymbosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5622. M. auguina, 

 Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 19, t. 236. Oarpopogon anguineum, Eoxb. Cat. Hort. 

 Beng. 54. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, tropical zone ; KHASIA, ASSAM, CHITTAGONG, PEGU ; TAVOY, 

 Gomez. Hills of WEST PENINSULA and CEYLON, up to 3000 ft. 



A woody climber, with slender glabrescent branches. Leaflets membranous or 

 subcoriaceous, thinly clothed with ferruginous pubescence beneath ; the end one ob- 

 long-cuspidate, 4-6 in. long. Racemes 6-12-flowered, corymbose, short-peduncled, or 



