400 BENGAL PLANTS. 
ete Chittagong. 
e woody climber a 
530. ean GIGANTEA DO; F. B. I. ii. 186. Carpopogon 
gigant 
Sundribuns. 
extensive woody climber, confined to mangrove tidal 
forests. 
531. Mucuna prurtens DC.; F. B. I. ii. 187; E. D. M. 786. 
Carpopogon pruriens F, I. iii. 283. 
In all the provinces; common both on the edges of 
forests and in village jungles. 
An annual climber with slender stems. Beng. Alkushi, 
bichchoti; Hind. Kivanch, goncha; Uriya Kaincho; 
Santal. Etka. 
532. Mucuna urius Wall.; F. B. I. ii. 187. 
Occasionally aidlitvateds Spottt in the western pro- 
vinces. 
An annual climber with eH stems. In badly eit 
plants the racemes are often short and few-flow 
sometimes only 1-2 rite ere produced. Beng 
Alkushi. 
583. esp nivea DC.; F. B. I. ii. 188. Carpopogon niveum 
F. I. ii. 285. 
Occasional cultivated. 
annual climber with slender stems. This and M. 
ae are probably only varieties of the same species- 
Be 
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247. Butea Roxb. 
Trees or large woody twiners ; leaves pinnately 3- foiolate, leas 
1 
large; stipules small, caducous; stipels subulate. Flowers larg 5 : 
showy, densely fascicled in axillary or terminal racemes oF pani a 
Sepals 5, connate in a wide campanulate tube; teeth deltoid, 
short, the two upper connate in a broad entire or emarginate ip 
Petals much exserted; standard ovate, acute, recurved, not 
appendaged at base; wings falcate, adnate to the much-ineurved 
acute keel, which equals the standard in length. Stamens 10; 
vexillary filament free, filiform, the rest connate ; anthers uniform. 
Ovary aeile or shortly stipitate, 2-ovuled; style long, incurveds oe 
beardless ; stigma terminal, truncate or capitate. Fruit . soee 
