62 Leguminosce. {Mucuna^ 



Dry region; rather rare. N. Province (A. Clark); Batticaloa 

 (Gardner) ; Hunguranketa ; Trincomalie (C. La Brooy) ; Bintenne Dis- 

 trict. Fl. Feb.; rich blue-purple. 



Also in Peninsular India and at Malacca. 



The same remark as to the pod applies to this as to the last. The 

 sutures lie at the bottom of a very deep furrow formed by the wings,, 

 which are \ in. or more high. 



3. M. g-igantea, DC. Prod. ii. 405 (1825). 



Stizolobium giganteum, Pers., Moon Cat. 53. Thw. Enum. 89. C. P. 



3587. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 186 (not given for Ceylon). Hk. Bot. Misc. ii. t. 

 supp. 14. 



A large woody twiner, with glabrous branches ; lflts. ovate, 

 acute, glabrous when mature; fl. on long slender ped., almost 

 umbellate at end of long peduncles; pod 4-6 in., stalked,, 

 linear-oblong, apiculate, with a broad double wing along both 

 sutures, but without wings or plaits on the sides, densely- 

 covered with long adpressed chestnut-brown, irritant bristles. 



Dry country ; very rare. I have seen only the C. P. specimen (a pod 

 merely), which was collected by Gardner, and is labelled ' Batticaloa ' (?). 

 Moon's locality is Bentota. It grows in the Bot. Gardens, Peradeniya. 

 Fl. Jan.; sulphur-yellow. 



Also in Peninsular India, Malaya, Polynesia, &c. 



4. XIX. pruriens, DC. Prod. ii. 405 (1825). Achariya-pala, S. 



Burm. Thes. 191. Herm. Mus. 67. Fl. Zeyl. n. 539. Dolichos 

 pruriens, L. Sp. PI. ii. 1019. Stizolooiitm pruriens, Pers., Moon Cat. 53. 

 M. prurita, Hook., Thw. Enum. 89. C. P. 3150. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 187. Hk. Bot. Misc. ii. t. suppl. 13. Bentl. and Trim. 

 Med. PI. ii. t. 78. 



An annual (?), semi-woody twiner, branches slender, usually 

 clothed with short white deflexed hairs ; 1. large, rachis 3-5 in.,. 

 sparingly deflexed-hairy, stip. linear-setaceous, hairy, lflts. 3-4 

 in., on short thick hairy stalks, terminal one smallest and rhom- 

 boid-oval, lat. ones very unequal with the lower half greatly 

 dilated, all acute, mucronate, pubescent above, densely covered 

 with shining silvery adpressed hair beneath; fl. numerous, 

 I i -I l m - l° n & on short pubescent ped., usually 2 or 3 together 

 at intervals in a slender pubescent raceme 6-12 in long, bracts 

 \ in. lanceolate, hairy, soon falling; cal. densely silky, 2 upper 

 segm. completely connate, lowest much longest ; pod 2^-3 in. 

 by about \ in. broad, linear, blunt, falcately curved at both 

 ends, with a longitudinal rib along whole length of each valve 

 but without wings, densely covered with close rather weak 

 orange-brown irritant bristles pointing backward and readily 

 detached, 4-6-seeded with partitions between them ; seed 

 ovoid, \ in., compressed, brownish mottled with black, hilum 

 oblong, not half the length of seed. 



