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mernbranaceous ; terminal leaflet cuneate towards the base ; flowers 

 of a beautiful bluish-purple, 1 1 inch long, several on the apex 

 of a very long naked, sharply-angular peduncle (12 to 15 inches) ; 

 upper lip of calyx minutely bidentate, lower lip trifid, teeth 

 triangular, middle one longest. Budgee hill in Braminwara range, 

 Deccan ; very rare. 



17. MUCUNA, Adans. 



1. MONOSPERMA, DC. Prod. 2, 406. Perennial; leaflets ovate 

 pubescent when young ; racemes corymbiform, drooping ; legume 

 semioval, obliquely plaited, one-seeded, and covered with stiff 

 ferruginous burning hairs; seed kidney-shaped, with a large hilura. 

 Common in the hilly jungles; Ram Ghaut; flowers in December. 

 Syn. Carpogogon monospermum, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 283. 



2. PRURITA, Hook, in Bot. Misc. ii, 308. Annual ; branches 

 hairy ; leaflets ovate, sprinkled with silvery hairs beneath ; racemes 

 peduncled, drooping; legume shaped like the letter S, armed with 

 tawny stinging hairs. Cowitch, used to kill intestinal worms, which 

 they do by mechanical action. Very common in hedges. Syn. 

 Dolichos pruriens, Roxb. in E. I. C. Mus. t. 284; Carpogogon 

 pruriens, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 283 ; Stizolobium pruriens, Spr. syst. 

 iii, 252; Rheed. Mai. viii, t. 35; Rumph. A nib. v, f. 142; 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. ii, Suppl. t. 3. 



18. ERYTHRINA, Linn. 



1. INDICA, Lam. Encyc. Meth. ii, 391. (a) Arboreous ; trunk 

 armed with black prickles ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets 

 glabrous, entire, the terminal one broadly cordate ; racemes ter- 

 minal, horizontal; flowers bright-scarlet, appear in March ; legume 

 long, torulose, 6 to 8-seeded, blackish ; seeds largish, dark-red. DC. 

 Prod. 2, p 412 ; W. and A. Prod. 260 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 249; E 

 corallodendron B, Linn. sp. 992. Employed as a support for the 

 black-pepper plant, also for vines. A very common tree. \Vight 

 Ic. t. 58. Native name " Pangara ; " wood used for sword-sheaths. 



2. STRICTA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 251. Arboreous, armed with 

 numerous white prickles ; leaflets glabrous entire, terminal one re- 

 niform, cordate-pointed ; racemes terminal, horizontal ; flowers large, 

 bright-scarlet; legume lanceolar-pointed, smooth, light-brown; 

 seeds 2 to 3, oval and smooth. A new genus (Micropteryx) has 

 been proposed for this, and the following by Walpers in the Linn, 

 xxii, 740. Elephanta ; the Ghauts, Graham ; Southern Concan ; 

 pretty common. 



3. SUBEROSA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 253. Arboreous, bark corky ; 

 leaflets white, with down beneath, terminal one rhomboid and 



