186 L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Mucuna* 



subsessile ; bracts none seen ; pedicels ^-f in. ; bracteo'les linear, exceeding the bud. 

 Calyx -| in., with copious irritating bristles; lower tooth linear; side ones deltoid. 

 Corolla H in. long; keel abruptly inflexed at the tip; wings ^ in., standard ^ in. 

 broad. Pod 3 in. long, obscurely stipitate, clothed with copious ferruginous or dull 

 brown irritating bristles ; wings \-^ in. deep. 



3. IK. atropurpurea, DC. Prodr. ii. 406 ; leaflets glabrous, racemes 

 long-pedimcled drooping elongated often forked, upper calyx-lip more than half 

 as long as the tube, pod two-seeded twice as long as broad, Wall. Cat. 5620 } 

 W. Sf A. Prodr. 254. Oarpopogon atropurpureurn, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 54 ; FL 

 Ind. iii. 287. 



Plains of WESTERN PENIKSTJLA and CEYLON. MALACCA, Maingay. 



A woody climber, with very slender glabrous branches. Leaflets membranous, 

 subconcolorous, shining on the upper surface, the end one oblong-cuspidate, 4-6 in. 

 long. Racemes pendent, not corymbose ; bracts small, ovate, soon deciduous ; bracte- 

 oles oblong-spathulate, obtuse, \-^ in. Calyx - 1 in. long, deeply bilabiate, with a 

 few ferruginous irritating bristles. Corolla dark purple, 2-2^ in. long ; keel abruptly 

 turned up at the end ; wings -^ f in., standard 1 in. broad. Pod sessile, 3 in. long, the 

 faces traversed with close oblique plaits, and furnished with abundant yellow-brown 

 irritating bristles. 



SUBGEN. 3. Carpopog-on, Itoxb. Pod broadly winged down both sutures, 

 but not plaited on the faces. 



4. ZK. g-ig-antea, DC. Prodr. ii. 405; Wall Cat. 5619; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 254 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 351, Suppl. t. 14! Carpopogon 

 giganteum, JRoxb. Hort. Bcng. 54 ; FL Ind. iii. 286. Dolichos giganteus, Willd* 

 Sp. PI. iii. 1041. Rheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 36. 



Plains of the WESTEBN PENINSULA ; ANDAMANS, Kurz. DISTBIB. Malaya, Philip- 

 pines, Polynesia. 



A woody climber, with slender glabrous branches. , Leaflets subcoriaceous, sub- 

 concolorous, glabrous ; end one oblong-cuspidate, 5-6 in. long. Flowers 12-30 in long- 

 peduncled drooping close racemes ; pedicels 1 in. long. Calyx -f in., with a few 

 irritating bristles; upper lip subtruncate. Corolla yellow, 1-1^ in. long; keel not 

 abruptly inflexed at the ena. Pod 3-6 in. by 2 in., flat on the faces, copiously clothed 

 with abundant deciduous yellow-brown irritating bristles, 2-6- seeded. 



STTBGEN. 4. Stizolobium, Pars. Pod without either distinct plaits on 

 the faces or wings down the sutures. 



5. IKE. macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 5618; -woody, branches and leaves 

 glabrous, upper lip of calyx subtruncate, pod very large sublignose glabrescent. 



NIPAL and SILHET, Wallich. KHASIA and SIKKIM, 1-6000 ft., plentiful, HooJc.fil. $ 

 Thomson. 



Branchlets slender, terete. Leaflets subcoriaceous, the undersurface with a few ad- 

 pressed deciduous hairs ; end one ovate-cuspidate, 6-8 in. long. Racemes fascicled 

 from the old wood, short-peduncled, with a densely brown- velvety rachis, the lower 

 nodes sending out short branches ; pedicels f-|r in., velvety, decurved ; bracteoles 

 -|-f in. obtuse, oblcng. Calyx nearly 1 in. long, with a few irritating bristles ; lower 

 teeth as long as the tube. Corolla 2^-3 in. long ; keel abruptly turned up at the 

 tip; wings f in. ; standard 1^ in. broad. Pod 1-1^- ft. by 1^-lf in., 8-12-seeded,, 

 distinctly torulose, finely velvety at first, slightly channelled down both sides of both 

 sutures. 



6. IKE. bracteata, DC. Prodr. ii. 406 ; annual or perennial, branches 

 and leaves below with a few adpressed hairs, flowers purple in short-peduncled 



