188 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Mucuna. 



10. BT. nivea, DC. Prodr. ii. 406 ; annual, stem and leaves beneath gla- 

 brescent, flowers white in long drooping racemes, bracts small linear-lanceolate, 

 pods shortly velvety glabrescent ribbed longitudinally. Wall. Cat. 5624. Car- 



n niveum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 285. M. nigra, Ham. in 



Cat. 5617. 



AYA and BENGAL, perhaps cultivated only. 



Like the preceding, perhaps only a cultivated race of M. pruriens. Leaflets 

 J-f ft. long, distinctly rhomboidal at the base, both sides at first with a few adpressed 

 hairs. Racemes pendulous, often exceeding the leaves. Pedicels, calyx and corolla of 

 M. pruriens, but the latter white. Pod half a foot long, black and destitute of 

 bristles when mature, 6-8-seeded. 



61. AFXOS, Moench. 



Twining herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-7-foliolate, stipellate. Floivers middle- 

 sized, in lax racemes, with tumid nodes ; bracts and bracteoles minute, deciduous. 

 Calyx teeth shorter than the tube, two upper connate, lowest linear, the two 

 others short, deltoid. Corolla much exserted, the much incurved narrow keel 

 exceeding the spoonshaped standard, the wings still shorter. Stamens diadel- 

 phous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style very long, fili- 

 form, beardless, much incurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed. 

 DISTRIB. Species 3, the two others Chinese and N. American. 



1. A. carnea, Benth. MSS. Oyrtotropis carnea, Wall. Cat. 5527; PL 

 As. Ear. 49, t. 62. 



NIPAL. Wattich. KHASIA, 4-6000 ft., Hook. fit. $ Thomson, Lobb. 



Stems slender, soon glabrescent. Petioles 2-3 in. ; leaflets usually o, rarely 3, 

 glabrous, green above, pale beneath, membranous, opposite, oblong, acute, 3-4 in. 

 long. Flowers in long-peduncled flexuose secund racemes 6-9 in. long ; lower pedicels 

 fascicled, upper solitary; bracts and bmcteoles minute, linear, caducous. Calyx green, 

 glabrous, -f in. Corolla reddish, quite twice the calyx. Pod 4-5 in. long, glabrous, 

 straight, 12-16-seeded. 



62. ERYTHRINA, Linn. 



Trees with prickly branches. Flowers large, coral-red, in dense racemes, 

 produced usually before the development of the large constantlv 3-foliolate leaves. 

 Calyx oblique, spathaceous, finally slitting down to the base or campanulato-bi- 

 labiate. Petals very unequal ; standard always much exserted and considerably 

 , exceeding the keel and wings. Upper stamen free down nearly to the base or 

 connate with the others half way up the filaments ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, 

 turgid, torulose. DISTRIB. Species 25-30, principally tropical, in both the new 

 world and the okl, and at the Cape. 



STJBGEN-. 1. Stenotropis, Hassk. Calyx spathaceous, oblique, not at 

 all 2-lipped, finally split to the base down the back. 



1. E. indica, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 412 ; calyx 5-cleft at the tip, keel- 

 petals free, pod 0-8-seeded. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 249 ; Wall. Cat. 5963 ; W. $ 

 A. Prodr, 260 : JJedcl. Fl. Sylv. 87 ; Wight Ic. t. 58 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 70. 

 E. spathacea, Wall. Cat. 5965. E. corallodendron, Linn. Sp. 992, ex parte. E. 

 cuneata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5967. Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 7. 



Foot of the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON, BIEMA and MALACCA, often planted. DISTRIB. 

 Java, Polynesia. 



