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Penang ; Wallich (Cat. n. 5621) ! Perak ; Kinta, Kunstler 7038 ! 

 Singapore; Chan Chu Kang, Ridley 2075! Distrib. Java (Forbes n. 

 493 !) 



5. Mucuna gigantea DC. Prodr. II, 405. A long very slender 

 climber sometimes reaching 250 feet ! with slender glabrous branches. 

 Leaves 5-9 in. long ; leaflets 3, subcoriaceous dark green, dull, glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; oblong cuspidate, base of terminal cuneate of lateral 

 obliquely rounded, 4-5 in. long, 2*5 in wide, petiole glabrous 5 in. long ; 

 stipels subulate *15 in., stipules linear 2 in. long. Inflorescence a pendulous 

 umbelliform corymb terminating a slender glabrous peduncle 4-18 in. 

 long aud bearing near its apex usually 3 sometimes 5-7 small projecting 

 puberulous nodes each emitting 3-5 slender readily disarticulating grey- 

 pubescent pedicels *75 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles both minute and 

 very early deciduous. Calyx *5 in. long green with a few pungent 

 bristles, tube rather cylindric '5 in. across, teeth all very short the upper 

 wide subtruncate, the other three in bud shortly triangular at length 

 obsolete. Corolla sickly greenish-yellow or white 1*25-1 *5 in. long, keel 

 not abruptly inflexed at tip ; wings 1-1*25 in., standard 75 in. long '6 in. 

 wide. Pod broadly winged down both sutures faces smooth or with 

 oblique cross ridges but never distinct plaits ; 35-6 in. long, 2 in. across 

 clothed with deciduous yellow-brown irritating bristles ; seeds 2-4. 

 Wall. Cat. 5619 ; W. & A. Prodr. 254 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. IT, 

 351, Suppl. t. 14 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 213 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. II, 186. M, corymbosa Grah. in. Wall. Cat. 5622. JDolichos giganteus 

 Willd. Sp. PI. Ill, 1041. Carpopogon giganteum Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 • 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 286. Stizolobium giganteum Kuntze Rev. Gen. Plant. I 

 208. Zoophthalmum giganteum Prain MSS. 



Andamans ; Coco Group, Prain! Middle Andaman, Kurz ! South 

 Andaman, Liebig ! Kurz ! Man ! Little Andaman, Prain ! always close to 

 salt-water creeks or in Mangrove-swamps. Narcondam, near sea beach 

 Prain! Perak ; Scortechini ! Pahang ; Ridley 1227 ! Distrib. A littoral 

 species on Indian, Indo-Chinese, Malayan and Polynesian Coasts. 



Subgen. 2. Stizolobium. Annual climbers ; seeds ovoid with a 

 small lateral hilum. 



6. Mucuna pruriens DC. Prodr. II, 405. A slender annual climb- 

 er with adpressed-pubescent branches at length glabrescent. Leaves 

 6-9 in. long ; leaflets 3, membranous ovate-rhomboid, green glabrescent 

 above grey- silky and lustrous beneath, the lateral pair very oblique 

 truncate at base, all 3-5 in. long 2-3 in. wide ; petioles 2-5-4-5 in. long, 

 ad pressed siUy, petiolules '2 in. long, stipels '15 in. long subulate, 

 stipules lanceolate "2 in. long. Inflorescence of short-ped uncled racemes 

 varying from 1 in. to 1 foot in length and from 3 30-fld., drooping, rachis 



