356 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Mucuna. 



5. MTJCUNA PBURITA, Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 348, t. xiii ; W. & A. 

 255. M.pruriens, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 187 not of DC. 

 East and West Coast regions, twining among hedges and 

 bushes. Cowhage. 



A slender climber with annual shoots, leaves pubescent. 

 The irritant hairs are very troublesome. Yern. Hind. 

 Kiwach ; Tel Piliadagn kaila ; Tain. Poonaykali. 



39. Galactia, P. Browne. 



Prostrate or twining herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely 

 1-5 or -7-foliolate ; stipules small, deciduous ; stipels subulate. 

 Flowers small or moderate-sized, in axillary racemes, paired or 

 fascicled at the very slightly swollen nodes ; bracts setaceous ; 

 bracteoles minute. Oot/^-tube short ; teeth lanceolate or linear, 

 the 2 upper connate into one. Corolla slightly exserted ; standard 

 ovate or orbicular, slightly auriculate ; wings narrowed, adnate to 

 the nearly straight obtuse keel. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, beard- 

 less ; stigma capitate. Pod linear, straight or incurved, subsep- 

 tate between the seeds. Seeds somewhat compressed ; strophiole 0. 

 Leaflets elliptic, almost membranous, thinly grey-silky beneath, obtuse 

 or emarginate, mucronate, up to 1*5 in. long 1 , '7 in. broad, main nerves 

 about G ; calyx-lobes narrow, lanceolate, glabrescent ; pod 1 in. long, 



thinly grey-silky 1 . tenuiflora. 



Leaflets linear- oblong, subcoriaceous, very slightly appressed-villous 

 beneath, obtuse, mucronate, lip to 2'5 and even 5 in. long, '5-*7 in. 

 broad, main nerves about 10 ; calyx-lobes rather broad, acuminate, 



glabrescent; pod 1*5 in. long, glabrous 2. long/flora. 



Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, submembranous, densely villous beneath, 

 obtuse, mucronate, up to 3 ! 5 in. long, 1*2 in. broad, main nerves about 

 7-8 ; calyx-lobes broad, acuminate, very villous ; pod villous 



3. mllosa. 



1. GALACTIA TENUIFLORA, W. & A. 206 ; F. B. I. ii. 192. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, not common. 



A slender wiry climber with reddish flowers and small 



leaves. 



2. GALACTIA LONGIFOLIA, Benth. ; Wt. Ic. t. 482. G. tenui- 

 flora, var. lucida, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 192. 



W. Ghats, in the Hills of Coimbatore, the Nilgiris and 



Pulneys, up to 3,000 ft. 



A slender climber distinguished by its narrow leaflets. 



