Muama.] Lcguminosz. 6 1 



i. RX. monosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 406 (1825). 



Thw. Enum. 89. C. P. 2662. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 185. Wight, Ic. t. 35 (2 plates). 



A large woody twiner, the younger branches clothed with 

 rufous, deciduous tomentum ; 1. large, rachis 2 J-4J in., with 

 red deciduous pubescence, stip. deciduous, lflts. on short swollen 

 stalks, 2-4 in., rotundate or broadly oval, shortly acuminate, 

 smooth above, more or less densely pubescent beneath, lat. 

 ones unequal-sided; fl. large if in., on divaricate ped. Jin. 

 long, 6-10 in a lax pubescent raceme (or panicle) shorter than 

 1. ; cal. sparingly clothed with red bristles, upper segm. wanting ; 

 standard often with a few bristles on the back; pod 2 in., 

 broadly ovate-ovoid, shortly stalked, somewhat curved, with a 

 short decurved beak, with a broad double horizontal wing 

 along both sutures, and several (about 6) broad erect distant 

 wings extending from them at right angles nearly half way 

 down the sides, the whole covered with orange-red deciduous 

 wool mingled with irritant red bristles; seed solitary, nearly 

 circular, compressed, dark brown, hilum linear, extending 

 round f of the edge. 



Upper zone of moist low country; rather rare. Kitulgala; Hunas- 

 giria; Lunugala; Uva. Fl. Jan.; bright violet, keel green. 



Hills of India and Burma. 



This is probably Stizolobium rugostim, Moon Cat. 53, from Kandy. 

 Our plant has the sutures of the pod very distinctly double-winged, 

 and thus does not well agree with published descriptions of M. mono- 

 sperma. 



2. BX. atropurpurea, DC. Prod.il 406 (1825). Funnakalichi, 

 Phandatullai. T. 



Thw. Enum. 89. C. P. 1483. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 186. 



A large woody twiner, young branches slender, glabrous; 

 l.-rachis 2-3 in., glabrous, stip. deciduous, lflts. shortly stalked, 

 2\- 4 in., lanceolate or oval, acuminate, acute, glabrous on 

 both sides, lat. veins very oblique; fl. very large, 2|-2-| in., 

 on drooping ped. \-\ in., about 10-15 in a short racemose 

 panicle; cal. large, densely downy, with a very few orange 

 bristles, 3 lower segm. triangular, equal; pod 3-4 in., oblong- 

 ovoid, scarcely stalked, blunt, doubly winged along sutures, 

 and with numerous (10-14) deep, close, parallel, flat wings or 

 plaits running obliquely from each across sides, and meeting 

 along centre, slightly pubescent and clothed with copious red 

 irritant bristles; seeds 2 (or 1), 1 in., broadly ovoid, slightly 

 compressed, grey mottled with brownish-black, hilum ex- 

 tending i round edge. 



