cuna.] LEGUMINOS#. | 399 
Chota Nagpur, Raph sa 
A dwarf species, the racemes and annual leafy shoots 
springing directly from a sith rootstock. 
246, Mucuna Adans. 
Perennial or annual lar ge, twining shrubs or herbs; leaves 
siiAicly 3-foliolate ; stipules deciduous ; stipels subulate, rarely 0. 
Flowers large, pu as red or greenish, fasciculately racemed on 
usually long ax axillary peduncles, or occasionally subeymose, on a 
nodose rachis ; bracts deciduous, Jaree or small; bracteoles small. 
Sepals 5, connate in a widely ampanulate tube ; lowest tooth long, 
lateral short, upper 2 connate in an entire lip. Petals much ex- 
hort hilum ; strophiole 0. 
Smooth, within n sepa a3 occluded. nee orbicular with long 
linear hilum g with 
ea woody climbers; seeds large, flat, with a large hilum extend- 
round the greater portion of their circumference :— 
‘Pols with plaits across their faces, seeds solitary; racemes short 
bose osperma. 
Pods without t plaits across their fibcek’ seeds 2~4; racemes long- 
llifo) ...gigantea. 
teral 
Stems ait gaan annual; seeds small fovoid. with ¢ * 
hilum; pods turgid, subrecurved at apex, \onaitodinall ribbed ; 
tacemes elongated :— 
Pods grey, covered with pungent deciduous hairs; flowers purple ; 
.--prUuriens, 
leaves beneath grey-silk 
Pods black, Aisbered with velvety persistent conanint — 
Flowers purple ; leaves beneath grey-Silky ....e-eeerereerrererestees 
Owers white; leaves beneath glabrescent ....+-+-+--+-+++1++07+- 
529. Mucuna monospeRMA be.; F. B. I. ii. 185; y DD. M. 
781; Carpopogon monospermum F. I. iii. 288. 
